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The actor Sean Penn has flown to Cuba to chase what would be the biggest scoop of his career as a part-time journalist: an interview with Fidel Castro.
The Oscar winner, who last year bagged interviews with Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez, is reportedly on assignment for Vanity Fair in his quest to meet Cuba’s former president.
In a sign of Havana’s approval the communist party newspaper Granma covered Penn’s visit yesterday to the Island of Youth, where he visited a gallery and met artists.
According to the online magazine tmz.com Penn hopes to ask Fidel about Cuba’s evolving…
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By Steven Zeitchik | Hollywood Reporter
A trio of prominent producers are teaming up for “Havana Nocturne,” a story of gangsters in 1950’s Cuba based on T.J. English’s New York Times bestseller.
Eric Eisner (“Hamlet 2”), Gil Adler (“Superman Returns”), and Shane McCarthy (untitled Robert Cooley mob drama at Paramount) are attached as producers on the project. Eisner’s L+E banner will produce and finance development, while Adler will produce via his Gilbert Adler Prods.
“Nocturne” centers on a group of mainly American gangsters in Batista’s Cuba, particularly Meyer Lansky, who run the freewheeling country’s…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
Sculpture by Cuban ceramic artist Osmany Betancourt
At the Fuller Craft Museum on Oak Street in Brockton Massachusetts, you can see a Cuban ceramic art exhibition called “Beyond the Embargo: Cuban and American Ceramics” until October 18.
Curated by Catherine Merrill, this exhibition highlights works in clay from a group of prominent Cuban and American artists who, in spite of the continued U.S. Embargo against Cuba, have continued to work and exhibit together in both Cuba and the United States. This collaborative…
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By: Stephanie Simon | NY1.com
Some Cuban arts experts are welcoming the changing political climate and its evolving effect on the art market. NY1’s Stephanie SImon filed the following report.
Alberto Magnan owns an art gallery in Chelsea, but he’s never far from his homeland of Cuba. In March, Alberto helped organize a historic exhibit of Chelsea artists in Havana called “Chelsea Visits Havana.” Magnan told NY1 about this dream three years ago, but this year he was able to make it a reality. He believes a change in the White House helped.
“I felt that there was a lot…
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By Meaghan Agnew | Boston Globe
Michelle Wojcik knows what it is to be an island. As the owner of Galeria Cubana, the only gallery in New England to deal exclusively in contemporary Cuban art, Wojcik spends her days and nights managing every particular of her business, from hanging artwork to changing light bulbs.
The Lowell native has long been fascinated by Cuba. While studying for her master’s degree in applied anthropology at American University, Wojcik got involved in a project with the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales in Miramar. She deepened her ties to the island nation while an…
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By Esteban Israel | Reuters
The U.S. and Cuba governments have taken the first, tentative steps toward ending 50 years of hostilities, but the thawing of relations is already in full swing in the arts world.
After being largely absent in recent years, U.S. gallery owners, museum directors, curators and collectors are returning to the island to view and buy the work of Cuban artists.
Hundreds showed up for the just-ended Havana Biennial arts festival that was a regular stop for art buyers before a Bush administration travel crackdown earlier this decade. Their presence reflected both newly relaxed U.S. policy…
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Cuba’s first major exhibition of U.S. contemporary art in almost a quarter of a century is attracting hundreds of visitors to the show.
Chelsea Visits Havana, which opened on Saturday, was three years in the making and features 30 artists from New York’s arty Chelsea neighbourhood.
“I would love for this show to be a beginning step towards both countries getting a little closer together and starting a dialogue and I think art is a great way to do it,“said the show’s American curator, Alberto Magnan, whose parents left Cuba when he was five.
Magnan said he approached Cuban authorities…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The four plus hour epic “Che” movie will open in Los Angeles and New York on December 12. It will be split into two parts and released to a wider audience in January.
Benecio del Toro stars as “La Revolution” hero Che Guevara. The first part of the film is 129 minutes and titled “The Argentine” and the second part is 128 minutes and titled “Guerilla”. There will be a 30 minute intermission between the two parts and each part will be treated as a separate movie with separate admissions.
The film will…
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Some 90 artists from Latin America and Europe have donated works to the online Art for Cuba expo-sale organized by Cuban actor and painter Jorge Perugorria to rise funds to restore hurricane-stricken Gibara city, Holguin.
Including 70 paintings, 22 engravings, five sculptures and nine photographs the catalog has 106 works of art.
Engravers, sculptors, photographers and painters have answered the call by Cuban Oscar nominee for “Strawberry and Chocolate” (1994) Jorge Perugorria on the webpage ArtePorCuba.com opened on October 5 at Casa Lam in Mexico.
Gibara is a small Cuban city that was devastated by…
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The official web site is BienalHabana.cult.cu and this article below comes from CubaHeadlines.com.
Experts from the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center are reviewing more than 400 proposals submitted by artists from 32 nations in preparations for the 10th Havana Biennial Art Exhibition, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year.
Founded in the 1980s primarily to promote Cuban fine arts, the organizers fought hard to overcome the economic crisis that affected Cuba in the 1990s, and at times had to postpone the event and wait for better circumstances.
However, the event continues to be held and includes a central…
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