First miniature art festival in Cuba

Which art form is not developed in Cuba? Deep in the heart of the Caribbean island are artists representing all manifestations imaginable and they proliferate. Painting, sculpture, music, dance, and literature are perhaps the most classic and widespread, but there are also expressions that are not always so widely circulated. Read More

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Cartoonist steals show at Cuba Book Fair

One of the greats of Latin American humor, cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado "Quino," creator of the Mafalda comic strip, was a big hit Monday presenting a volume of his work at the 16th International Book Fair underway in Havana. The cartoonist, part of the Argentine cultural delegation attending the fair, combines humor and social commentary in his popular work. He singed dozens of his books and spoke vividly with his audience. Read More

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Sculpture to homage Habanos Cohiba

An installation componed by three humidors and a sculpture will give homage to Cuban tobacco brand COHIBA during the next Habano Festival, said the fine arts Cuban artist Raul Valladares. Valladares, creator of the sculpture, is the author since 1995 of the works delivered to the Habano Festival Awards, and is working on a work of art for the closing of the ninth edition this year. Read More

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Cuban youth wins painting International Award

A drawing by Lianne Perez is exhibited in an art gallery in Japan, along with other award-wining paintings "four of them also Cuban" in an event sponsored by UNICEF Read More

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Cuba in Arco 2007

Works by notable Cuban artists like Roberto Fabelo, Manuel Mendive, Moisés Finalé and Agustín Bejarano will be exhibited at Madrids International Fair of Contemporaneous Art ARCO 2007 as Havana Gallery president Luis Miret said to Cubasi. Read More

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The Servando Cabrera Moreno Museum-Library re-opened its doors

More than 70 pieces that show all of the splendor and achievements of the Cuban visual artist Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923-l981) are being exhibited in the re-opened Museum Library that has the name of the creator, in its new venue in El Vedado in the capital. Read More

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Cuban Downs patients art exhibition in Spain

An art exhibition by young Cubans affected by Down's syndrome has opened in the city of Santander, Spain. The head of the project is painter and engraver Jesus Carrete from the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio. Carrete, who has a son with Down's syndrome, undertook this initiative five years ago aimed at instilling art into children with this disease. Read More

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Anthological exhibition by Cosme Proenza

The famous Cuban painter, drawer and mural painter Cosme Proenza, emulator of Bosco, presents in the province of Holguín an anthological exhibition classified as an unprecedented event in the history of local plastic arts, highlighted local authorities. Graduated as a Master of Fine Arts from the Fine Arts Institute of Kiev, Ukraine, Proenza (Holguín, 1948) has had already around thirty personal shows in Cuba and abroad. Read More

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Artists color life in Cuba

Drake exhibit ripe with innovation after Iowa native helps open importation doors. Outrage isn't an emotion most people associate with Iowans. But when Mason City native Sandra Levinson learned that Americans couldn't legally import Cuban artwork, well, let's just say she wasn't happy. Read More

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Homage of Ever Fonseca

La Acacia Gallery inaugurated this weekend the personal exhibition Where the River Flow, homage of the plastic artist Ever Fonseca to his native town Manzanillo, with the presence of the artist. The 20 works included in the exhibition range from the 50 centimeters up to three meters and they were created with different materials like cloth, metal, paper and wood. Read More

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