Two Cuban Dissident Artists Will Stand Trial Next Week, Say Human Rights Groups
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty international said the Cuban government should "immediately and unconditionally" release the artists.
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Tania Bruguera Detained Amid Protests Over Artistic Freedom in Cuba
The artist's sister said she had been released soon after.
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Packet Switching: Cuba’s Offline Internet
El paquete semanal (the weekly package), Cuba's offline digital media circulation system based on in-person file sharing, is a far more diverse in its content and structure than is typically reported.
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Socializing and Surviving in Old Havana: An Interview with Javier Castro
Much of Javier Castro's work details everyday situations in the Old Havana blocks where he lives and works.
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Atlas Miami: From the Margins
A few Miami artists have undertaken quiet but potent projects exploring—or perhaps even building—an archive of histories that have been disregarded or deliberately occluded.
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The Trauma of Political Engagement: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Tania Libre
What happens when a performance artist struggling against state censorship goes to therapy? In her new film Tania Libre, Lynn Hershman Leeson lets us eavesdrop on Tania Bruguera's session with Dr…
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In the Studio: Tania Bruguera
At her house in Havana, the activist artist reflects on her conscience-pricking performances, her anticapitalist convictions, her concerns for Cuba's future—and her many run-ins with the secret police…
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Made in the U.S.A.: Art from Cuba
When I was in Cuba in 1981, I was amazed to meet a group of young artists whose work was as "avant-garde" as anything shown in the New York galleries. In 1980 they had a show called "Volumen Uno" (Vol…
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Push/Pull: A Cultural Exchange in Havana
I tracked international news on Cuba throughout my formative years, mythologizing the country that created a local resilience plan based on barter, large-scale urban farming and public service to su…
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