by theCuban | Mar 25, 2022 | Past Exhibits
The American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, in collaboration with the Cuban Legacy Gallery, MDC Special Collections at Miami Dade College, presents Baruj Salinas: 1972–2022, a thematic survey of the acclaimed Miami-based Cuban American painter’s abstract work, which...
by theCuban | Jan 17, 2022 | Past Exhibits
The voices of Cuban artists and intellectuals emerged from the San Isidro and 27N Movements to publicly question both the lack of freedom of expression and the continuous violations of human rights by the Castro dictatorship. By that time, we could not fully imagine...
by theCuban | Feb 16, 2021 | Past Exhibits
"JAMAS ABANDONAREMOS NUESTRA PATRIA" On January 1, 1959, military dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, his regime toppled by a Revolution composed of multiple democratic organizations. Fidel Castro, head of the 26th of July Movement, the Revolution’s largest group,...
by theCuban | Mar 15, 2020 | Past Exhibits
“Second star to the right, and straight on to Miami” was the route to Never-neverland for many of the over 14,000 Cuban children of Operation Pedro Pan. The story of this unique generational cohort whose lives were forever changed by their 45-minute flight to freedom...
by Lorraine Cepeda | Dec 1, 2019 | Past Exhibits
Rafael Soriano is considered a member of the third Cuban avant-garde; that is, the modern artists that came of age in the 1950s prior to the triumph of the 1959 revolution. Throughout the 1940s Rafael Soriano’s paintings and drawings reflected the influence of...
by theCuban | Feb 27, 2019 | Past Exhibits
Presenting Celia Cruz Photographs by | fotografías Por alexis rodriguez-duarte In collaberation with | EN colaboración por TICO TORRES Once upon a time, in a country far, far away, my husband and collaborator, Tico Torres and I were starving artists living and working...