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Photo of the Day

A Modern José Martí

A modern José Martí has begun to appear on several walls of Havana. The graffiti arouses the curiosity of passers-by and worries the ruling orthodox do not know whether to interpret the ...

Guggenheim Foundation

Tania Bruguera is Finalist for the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize

Tania Bruguera has been selected along with five other candidates as a possible winner of the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize, an award that the Guggenheim Foundation in New York awarded every two years ...

Human Rights

‘El Sexto’ Released After 10 Months In Detention

Danilo Maldonado, El Sexto, was released this Tuesday after 10 months of detention in Valle Grande Prison in Havana. At around 10 in the morning, an official entered the cellblock where the artist ...

Interview with Juan Abreu

Juan Abreu: "Executions in Cuba Are an Untold Story"

Painter and writer Juan Abreu (b. Havana, 1952) has taken on the inordinate task of painting, one by one, all those executed by the Castro regime. The work in progress is entitled 1959 but ...

Generation Y

Art and Necessity

The man approaches and pulls a fork from the work Delicatessen that is being exhibited on the Havana Malecon during the XII Havana Biennial. Nearby, two neighbors speculate that, at the end of the ...

National

“I Live Happy Because I Live Without Fear”

Danilo Maldonado, the graffiti artist known as El Sexto, finished a month in prison this January 25. He was arrested while riding in a taxi whose trunk was carrying two live pigs. The animals were ...

Interview to Marius Jovaiša

“This is your country, and no regime can take it from you”

Marius Jovaiša is a Lithuanian photographer, 41, who has spent much of the last five years taking photos of Cuba from a perspective never before seen: from above. He started the project in 2010 ...

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