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Oscar Niemeyer builds Monument to Cuban Resistance

Renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, 99, is currently working on a monument to Cuba's resistance over more than four decades to US hostility. Read More

Arturo Montoto exhibition at the Villa Manuela Gallery

Last March 30th, 2007 was inaugurated the exhibition Conversación en el huerto (Conversation at the garden) from the renowned contemporary artist Arturo Montoto at the exhibition room from the Villa Manuela gallery site on H street number 406 between 17 and 19 in Vedado. Read More

The return of Einstein

On passing through Havana, Albert Einstein spent only a few hours here in December 1930 being en route to Californias Technological Institute in order to make some practices at the Mount Wilson Observatory, then the most sophisticated in the world. Read More

Argentines donate sculpture

Workers at the Argentinean Ernesto Che Guevara Museum in Alta Gracia donated a replica of the Cuban-Argentine guerrilla's statue to Cuba. The work was brought to the island for the Havana International Book Fair and exhibit, Ismary Fernandez, specialist of the Che Sculpture Complex in Santa Clara, told Cuban TV. Read More

Call for La Joven Estampa, Havana, May 10th-19th, 2007

La Casa de las Américas calls the young engravers from Latin America and the Caribbean to participate in the ninth edition of La Joven Estampa Award. The aim of this award, which has a biennial character Read More

Erotic art by Aldo Soler

Aldo Soler, from Cuba, has developed a style of appreciation and expression that has turned him into one of the most popular artists in his field. His recent exhibition, which can be seen at the Finca del Arte, is his third appearance at the gallery. Read More

Graphic Humor Festival scheduled for late march in Havana

The 15th Biennial of Graphic Humor takes place from March 25th through the 29th at its traditional venue in the municipality of San Antonio de los Baños in Habana with exhibitions that on this occasion will include hundreds of competing works from 13 countries. Read More

Lams "Intimate Cartography" arrived in Switzerland

Sample "Intimate Cartography" that gathers works by the most universal of all Cuban painters, Wifredo Lam (1902- 1982), is exhibited this February at the Cervantes Institute in Stockholm, Switzerland. The exhibit is made up by some 68 pieces, ranging from oil paintings, temperas, inks, charcoal drawings, collages and etchings to interesting lithographs, most of them of small and medium format made on paper and cardboard and that remained unpublished till 1993. Read More

Cuba to open Museum of miniatures

Cuba will open a museum of miniatures as part of the first hemispheric Festival of Miniatures in May. The fair will be held in San Juan de los Remedios and Caibarien municipalities, both in Villa Clara Province, Granma International on-line edition informed. Read More

Adigio Benítez in Villa Manuela

Works of Adigio Benítez, National Prize for Plastic Arts 2002 exhibited at Villa Manuela gallery of the Cuban National Association of Writers and Artists until next March 23rd under the title Essay about Hope. Read More

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