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Manolo Pérez, defender of Cuban comics
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Cimafunk and Paul McCartney
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Tania León, a Cuban who triumphs in classical music without forgetting salsa
“I can conduct Stravinsky or play Copland, but I dance salsa. For Cubans, dancing is fundamental, it is part of...
Omara Portuondo: what was done for Cuba during the Obama administration “has been taken away”
The well-known “girlfriend of feeling” believes that “the United States does not care about Cuba at all” and that “some...
Self-management in the Cuban art market: a necessary good?
Lack of effective management mechanisms in the Cuban art scene have led artists to deal with more than creating.
Galería Habana opens a door to NFT art
Digital works that can be bought and sold like any other type of property.
“Havana at your feet/ I would not know how to love you any other way”
In a few days the documentary “La Habana de Fito” will begin its route through festivals and exhibition halls. Let’s...
Agnieska Hernández: “I try to sow a poetic seed that helps us to be more tolerant….”
She is a director, playwright, poet, screenwriter and narrator.
Ángel Ramírez: “There are dragons everywhere; and when not, they are invented”
His art, although largely nourished by popular humor, is not “folkloric”; if anything, anthropological, because it delves into the ins...
Echoes of Broadway in Havana? The so-called Calle Línea Circuit
The idea of a first-level theater circuit would have to incorporate systemic thinking that includes certain issues of the infrastructure...
The documentary people, between Washington and Havana
The audiovisual material collects what was experienced by a group of independent Cuban filmmakers during the days of the Artes...
Celia Cruz, a Cuban biography
The least known stage of this world icon of Cuban music was spent in Cuba. Musicologist and biographer Rosa Marquetti...
U.S. producer KC Porter records album of Cuban traditional music
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Ariel Cumbá: “I was one of the first in Cuba to go out dressed as a woman”
Interview with the Cuban singer, drag queen, choreographer and artistic director currently based in Valencia, Spain.
Fernando Pérez: “I don’t want to be an opponent”
Ideas triumph because they are the ideas that an era needs; they cannot be imposed. Participation mechanisms have to be...
An unpublished letter from Celia Cruz
The creative relationship between Celia and Eridania began with the guaracha “Un paso pa’lante, un paso pa’tras.”
Omara Portuondo anticipates farewell to stage with world tour
“I feel like it’s a good time to personally leave a see you later! to my followers in the most...
U.S. actress Susan Sarandon praises Cuban vaccines and calls for end of embargo against the island
The also social activist wrote on her Twitter profile that “the time has come to end the embargo and let...
La Lupe’s Havana years
From her small space in La Red, Lupe Yoli was certain that hers would never be a normal and happy...
Cimafunk’s “El Alimento” among best Spanish language albums of the year, according to Rolling Stone
“Cimafunk’s incandescent sophomore album, El Alimento, unfolds as a series of intersections between Afro-Cuban musical tradition and stateside masters of...
Niurki’s vokingos
The author of numerous children’s books and radio scripts, Niurki Pérez García also writes comic strip scripts.
Cuban Women Art: Female universe from the NFT
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Ernest Hemingway from Key West to Havana
60 years after his death, the American writer’s passage through the two cities is remembered.
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