The Adrienne Arsht Center commissions José Bedia José Bedia is one of the most prominent Cuban artists in the contemporary art world. Major influences in his work include the Afro-Cuban religion Palo […]
JOSÉ BEDIA “Watering Past Ground”
Alvaro Labañino: The Millennial Art on the Path of the Masters
by Jesús Rosado There is a widespread trend in a certain sector of art criticism to disparage the millennial artistic talent by labeling it as frivolous, egomaniac, and standardized. Nothing could be […]
The first Thanksgiving
Although you can find various stories about the original Thanksgiving, this harvest celebration of pilgrims and Native Americans took place in the autumn of 1621. The first Thanksgiving was a three-day feast […]
Demons Inkpirations
Vicente Dopico-Lerner was born in Havana and has lived in the United States for most of his life, where he studied at Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, St. Thomas University and […]
The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture
Why do we so seldom see people smiling in painted portraits? Nicholas Jeeves explores the history of the smile through the ages of portraiture, from Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Alexander Gardner’s photographs of […]
Artists and friends in Hamlet Collection
As long as the sky whirls You will be my redemption and my doom, magnetic vision, lily in underwear, salvation and madness every night waiting. As long as the sky whirls no […]
THE ODYSSEY OF PEDRO ÁVILA GENDIS.
Roxana M. Bermejo. I have always considered the interpreting of abstract paintings through figurative tools to be a sterile activity. It results in being a vain exercise in which the viewer tends […]
La alquimia Habanera de Yulier P
Entrevista a Yulier Perez Yulier Pérez nace en Florida (Camagüey), en 1989. Se traslada a La Habana a la edad de 14 años para atender a la escuela experimental de artes de […]
A little piece of Banksy genius
A canvas that sold for over a million dollars was shredded by its frame but no one is sure if it was destroyed or simply transformed. By Hrag Vartanian A Banksy artwork […]
American Rural Idylls | Miguel Saludes
by Julia Morrisroe. Aldo Leopold, the conservationist, forester and philosopher, observed the seasonal changes and migratory patterns of wild life in his book A Sand County Almanac. The slender volume is a diary […]
