CULTURE

Viva El Arte

Cuba’s art scene is alive and thriving, despite a half-century of cultural isolation.


Arlés del Rio’s Resaca
Photographer: Franco Pagetti
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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

The grand Hotel Nacional de Cuba.

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Mounir Fatmi’s Obstáculos (Obstacles), 2015, part of “Detrás del Muro”.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, one of the founders of the famed Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

An installation from “Mountains With a Broken Edge” a group show curated by Wilfredo Prieto at the Bicycle Factory, in Havana’s Vedado, 2015.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

The jazz singer Haydée Milanés, daughter of Pablo Milanés.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

A work by the Cuban artist Damian Aquiles in the house where he lives with his wife, Pamela Ruiz.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

A party at Ella Fontanals-Cisneros’s home during the biennial.

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Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés and Rodríguez Sánchez, two members of Los Carpinteros.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

Art enthusiasts in Old Havana’s Cathedral Square.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

The artist Arlés del Rio’s installation Resaca (Undertow), 2015, a functioning beach on the Malecón.

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The U.S. Attache’s residence.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

Political propaganda is virtually the only “advertising” in Cuba.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

Mariela Castro Espín, Raúl Castro’s daughter, an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

A dinner at the artist Wilfredo Prieto’s 18th-century house in Vedado.

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Photographer: Franco Pagetti

A view of the artist Arlés del Rio’s Resaca (Undertow).

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The Cuban film producer Joseph “Jay” Rodríguez Fuentes’s home in Old Havana.

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The curator Juanito Delgado’s house is filled with friends’ artworks.

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A the National Museum of Fine Arts, Gustavo Pérez Monzón re-created Tramas, originally made in the ’80s using rocks, wire, and elastic thread.