Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel): “Today’s Cuba is a place of paradoxes, contrasts and inequalities that are increasingly better outlined”
The visual artist is one of the almost 20,000 Cubans who reside in Canada, from where he has done much ...
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Greta Reyna: “I only feel like a demiurge in my personal life, in which my work is implicit”
The artist reacts against expiration, calculated or not; she believes that things have more than one life.
Omaris Valentina, keeper of promises
She’s been singing Mexican folk songs since she was 12 years old; today she combines them with opera singing, acting, ...
Lily Ojeda: “Fear is the most powerful force in the universe”
The heavy part of being a playwright, actress, singer, composer and mother of two children.
Laura Llópiz: design, beyond what’s “beautiful”
Mother of two children, her art deco house in El Vedado is a laboratory where several artists’ books are designed ...
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.
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 ...
Jacqueline Maggi: “I learned to do with my hands what I could, with what I had and where life would take me”
She is a notable artist for her versatility and for the balance that her works present, between the density of ...
Cuban artists speak out about the protests on the island
The tense situation in Cuba has mobilized renowned artists.
National Museum of Fine Arts statement on demand from artists
“It does not agree with our institution’s vocation of service or with the interest of the public to which it ...
Cuban artists ask that their works be removed from the National Museum of Fine Arts
The group demands that its works exhibited in the permanent and temporary exhibition rooms of the National Museum of Fine ...
Bianchini: A Cuban artist in the world of crypto art
Photographer Gabriel Guerra Bianchini is one of the first Cuban artists to publish and sell a work converted to NFT.
Perugorría: “Psychoanalyzing ourselves would do us all some good”
After filming “Doctor Portuondo,” the Cuban actor talks with EFE about psychoanalysis, Cuba, the United States, and cinema on the ...
“In Miami I’ve discovered another part of my culture”
Héctor David Rosales is more than a Cuban filmmaker who lives outside of Cuba. He is more than one of ...
Cubans Ana de Armas and Libia Batista, selected for U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cubans Ana de Armas and Libia Batista were selected to form part of the ...
Animating Dreams between Chicago and Havana
I live in Chicago. I’m the Director of Americas Media Initiative, a non-profit that works with Cuban filmmakers. In early ...
Carmen Herrera, the 104-year-old Cuban painter, will have a mural on the streets of New York
The streets of East Harlem, in New York, one of the areas where the largest Latino population in Manhattan is ...
Is there a revival of cultural intolerance among Miami’s Cubans?
The urban music duo Gente de Zona was excluded from a New Year's Eve concert in Miami. Singer Haila was ...
Víctor Gómez: “Miami has become a metropolis of art”
Víctor Gómez (Havana, 1941) is an important name in the catalog of Cuban contemporary art. Few know it. Even he ...
“Archives of Consciousness,” six Cuban artists at U.S. Fairfield University
The art museum of Fairfield University, in Connecticut, will exhibit for the first time in its nine years the work ...
International Crafts Fair: Havana and gold/silversmiths
From December 6 to 21, the Pabexpo fairgrounds will host the International Crafts Fair (FIART 2019), which this year will ...
Cuban artist Carmen Herrera reaches the streets of New York at age 104
Cuban artist Carmen Herrera, aged 104, went unnoticed until a little over a decade ago, but this Wednesday she reached ...
Alejandra Estefanía Is Inspired: “I’ll travel to cuba to meet the boy with the flower”
Someone who buys Alejandra Estefanía’s art traveled to Cuba and, upon return to the United States, brought her a photo ...
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