MIAMI — In 1960, when he was just 18, the artist Luis Cruz Azaceta fled Cuba for New York City, partly to avoid conscription into Fidel Castro’s army. Just six days before the death of the Cuban ...
The work of acclaimed Cuban American artist Julio Larraz will be featured in an exhibition opening Sunday at the Butler Institute of American Art. The exhibition coincides with National Hispanic ...
At Wynwood’s Pan American Art Projects, turbo-charged solo shows by contemporary Cuban artists Gustavo Acosta and Carlos González offer intriguing, disparate takes on aerial acrobatics. Acosta’s “The ...
Juan Francisco Elso, “Por América (José Martí)” (1986) in the exhibition Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 at the Walker Art Center (all photos by the author for ...
She broke out in 1992, with a work that drew a lot of heat — and brought her fame. Now, El Museo del Barrio is exploring the Cuban American artist’s life and legacy outside the cage. A new survey ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The American Dream in My Old Kentucky Home is the goal of the many Cubans who flock to Louisville for freedom, but through the changes in immigration policy under President Donald ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The popular new single by recently exiled Cuban singer Haydée Milanés — titled in Spanish “Duele,” or “It Hurts” — starts with the lyrics, “My darling, you ...
A Room of One’s Own: Women and Power in the New America, 2006–8. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Mendes Wood DM One of the first things Coco Fusco wants to tell me about herself is that she started ...
Cuban cultural expression on and off the island: the condition of "un-freedom" -- Repeating the unrepeatable: CAFÉ and the journeys of Cuban artists -- Mapmaking in diaspora: a crumb of Madeleine -- ...