Culture
Por Anna Mengotti, EFE
Cuban graffiti El Sexto (The Sixth), who spent ten months in prison for having written the names of Fidel and Raul on two live pigs that he intended to release in Havana, told EFE that Cuba will ...
Photo of the Day
Por 14ymedio
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
Por 14ymedio
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
Por 14ymedio
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
Por Yaiza Santos
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
Por Yoani Sanchez
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 ...
Exile
Por 14ymedio
The Cuban filmmaker Ian Padrón announced his decision to leave the island and stay in the US in an interview broadcast by CNN Mexico last week. The artist admitted that he, “was tired of fighting, ...
Interview with Tania Bruguera
Por Yoani Sanchez
This coming February 22 Tania Bruguera should be in Madrid to present one of her works at the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, but she knows she isn’t going to make it. Trapped by Cuban ...
National
Por 14ymedio
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
Por Ernesto Hernandez
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 ...