News
Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US
The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.
Cuban art
Interview
What Carmen Maria Machado Wants You to Know About Power
The author and memoirist spoke to Hyperallergic about curating the work of Cuban painter Rocío García, whose characters linger in the space where power and pleasure meet.
Opinion
Racism Still Influences Cuban Arts and Culture
The question of race — however hidden, however camouflaged by the shouts of the crowds — is a constant theme and an unanswered challenge.
Art
Looking to Cuba's Past to Fabricate Tomorrow's Utopia
Adiós Utopia memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of this dream.
Art
Looking Beyond History to Tell the Story of Cuban Art
Arranged thematically, Adiós Utopia demonstrates ways Cuban artists have responded to their social context, all while revealing a dialogue with art happening around the world.
Art
A Cuban-American Artist’s Scathing Yet Loving Views of His Homeland
Luis Cruz Azaceta, an artist who fled Cuba at age 18, shortly after Fidel Castro came to power, is a fitting inaugural exhibition for Miami's new American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.