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original title: The Cuban Art Revolution
Collectors are betting the next hot art hub will be an island most Americans still can’t visit. Now, some U.S. art lovers are finding legal ways into Cuba to shop for works—before the market gets too crowded.
By KELLY CROW | Wall Street Journal
John Crago, an agricultural exporter from Colorado, took a business trip to Cuba last spring. He came back with 60 paintings, from island landscapes to abstract works, rolled up in his carry-on luggage.
With art from Asia and Russia in demand, some…
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TheArtNewspaper.com | David D’Arcy
Paintings made before the current regime seized power in Cuba are on display at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Art made before Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959 is now available for public viewing until September 1st where 93 works titled “Great Masters of Cuban Art 1800-1958”. The art belongs to Roberto and Carlos Ramos, brothers who fled Castro’s Cuba for Florida in 1992.
Roberto Ramos, 42, had done his military service in Cuba and become a martial arts instructor for elite…
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Cuban Dreams will be a Feature Length Documentary produced and directed by Gail Reaben
Cuban Dreams will be a feature length documentary exploring the dreams of the Cuban people. Most Americans only know of the political aspects of this country and the media reports of Cubans trying to escape by boats and rafts. Little is known about who the Cubans really are and what they dream about. They live in a controlled society dominated by restriction and economic hardship. Does living in…
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Impassioned Letter Calls to End the Political Ban Between U.S. and Cuban Artists
U.S. Cuba Cultural Exchange (USCCE) a national network of artists and presenters took the initiative from Alicia Alonso’s letter to create a campaign to end the ban the U.S. has imposed infringing on the rights of artists in both countries to collaborate and create. USCCE has obtained an unprecedented number of signatures from noted artists, intellectuals, presenters and industry executives from Alice Walker to Tom Waits calling for an end to this ban between our two countries. During the Bush administration…
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The most powerful exhibit of pre-revolution Cuban paintings will be on display from December 7, 2007 - April 27, 2008 at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, Florida. The exhibition, Great Masters of Cuban Art 1800 to 1958, will feature over 90 paintings from the private collection of Cuban-born collectors Roberto and Carlos Ramos of Miami. The brothers have overcome great challenges to rescue both the artworks and the archival art history of the Cuban Republic (1902-1958). The paintings are by some of Cuba’s most revered artists and are breathtaking with their vibrant colors and subject matter.…
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The Havana Auction, to be held for the sixth time in this capital on November 28, will include this year the work of a group of classic and novel Cuban painters.
The projects Havana Gallery and Havana Auction were created in 2002 to protect the island’s cultural heritage and to promote the work of the new Cuban artists in the world.
The auction, which draws the attention of a large number of collectors from the United States and Europe, takes in the work of renowned Cuban painters such as Leopoldo Romañach, Juan Gil…
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Jamaica Gleaner | Carolyn Johnson, Freelance Writer
Fashion went Spanish on Saturday night as the Embassy of Cuba presented ‘A Night of Cuban Fashion to Celebrate the National Day of the Cuban Culture in Jamaica’.
Hosted at the Courtleigh Auditorium, New Kingston, and produced by Saint International, the show was short and spicy with fabulous fashion and good music from Jamaica and Cuba. As a symbol of this, the otherwise white stage featured the Cuban and Jamaican flags.
After the playing of both countries’ national anthems, compère Adrian Atkinson introduced Cuban Ambassador, Her Excellency…
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photo by Liz Lauren
The Cook runs through 11/18: Tue-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Sun 11/11, 2 and 7:30 PM, Goodman Theatre in Chicago, 170 N. Dearborn St, 312-443-3800, $15-$38.
ChicagoReader.com | By Albert Williams
In his fascinating new memoir/cookbook, Tastes Like Cuba, New York playwright Eduardo Machado describes a 2001 visit to the land of his birth, which his family had left 40 years earlier to escape the harsh policies of Castro’s new regime. In…
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Roberta C. Nelson—The Bradenton Herald
In its most ambitious undertaking yet to exhibit visual art within a cultural framework, Ringling Museum of Art presents live dance and musical performances, films, lectures, photographs and seminars during the first week of “Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from the Farber Collection.”
The exhibit of 58 works, organized by the Samuel P. Harn Museum in Gainesville this year, runs through Dec. 30 in the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing at the museum. The Ringling exhibition is the first since the show left the Harn Museum last month. “Cuban Avant-Garde”…
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MANNY HERNANDEZ / FOR THE MIAMI HERALD
BY ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ | Miami Herald
Has the guayabera finally crossed over? It still may be mostly Cuban Americans who wear it, but this year it’s a new demographic.
For the past several summers, men’s fashion pundits have been telling us guayaberas are it. Here in Miami they’ve always been—at least for rather aged gentlemen of indifferent means who divide their lives between idealizing the island and cursing Fidel Castro.
But recently the gentlemen guayabera wearers have not…
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