Body and landscape converge in the groundbreaking painter’s first US retrospective at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
In further news: Parents call on Harvard Art Museums to remove Sackler name; Cuban artist-activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrested
In further news: Leonardo was ambidextrous; Coco Fusco denied entry to Cuba
It is not unusual for Cuban artists to grumble about excessive state meddling, but it’s rare for complaints to be aired publicly and collectively
Bruguera was one of a number of artists protesting the controversial Decree 349 which critics say will censor and limit artistic freedom
Many assume that the greatest challenges facing Cuban artists come from within Cuba – often they don't
In further news: Cuban activists’s manifesto against cultural censorship; the Reina Sofía’s plan to protect Guernica
In further news: Cuban artists fight for creative freedom; in London, plans to relocate suffragette statue met with anger
In further news: San Francisco takes a pro-immigrant stand with new arts project; Cuba clamps down on independent biennial
In further news: Cuba gets its first independent art biennial; Germany to fund investigations into African loot
From the many unpublished obituaries of Fidel Castro to the architecture of Dubai: what to read about this weekend
From the concept of human nature to post-Brexit erotica: what to read this weekend
Orit Gat and artist Julia Weist travel to Havana in search of El Paquete Semanal, the Cuban offline internet
Art historian Andrianna Campbell and photographer Matthew Connors visited Cuba to explore the shifting meaning of political monuments in a new era of change
Digital art in Cuba
Cuba, performance and society’s relationship to its history
Exploring the history of Cuba’s National Art schools – a tale that reflects the hopes and failures of a revolution
