May 4
Financial Times May 3, 2013
Donald Rubin, founder with his wife Shelley of New York’s Rubin Museum of Art, which focuses on the art of the Himalayas and which he has stocked with 3,800 works, has been amassing since 2009 what may be the world’s biggest private collection of contemporary Cuban art. According to his curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, at the last count there were 543 works by some 60 Cuban-born artists.
There are few sculptural works in the collection, because Rubin prefers two-dimensional pieces that can be readily hung in rooms, but Clara Morera is another favourite (he owns 13 works)whose mixed-media-on-wood assemblages feature in the current show. Found-art imagery of the US dollar combined with Cuban pesos and Cuban Convertible Pesos jokily sugest that the two economies may in fact be one.
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Apr 29
How it all began: The $100 Joan Miro lithograph that launched Perez’s collection in the late 1960′s. It still hangs in his office.
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Apr 7
Article about 6 artists who made it big after turning 70 including Carmen Herrera who sold her first painting in 2004 at the ripe age of 89.
Then, the floodgates opened.
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Mar 27
Opened in 2009 in a specially built 300,000-square-foot building in the Design District, the light and airy space became the latest addition to Miami’s public exhibition halls founded and run by major private collectors.
The 2013 De La Cruz Collection exhibition runs through Oct. 12, at 23 NE 41 St., Miami; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, free.
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Mar 27
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
3700 W Pine Blvd St Louis, MO 63108
Campos-Pons, “a leading artist of the Afro-Cuban diaspora,” presented her work within the context of ritual and spirituality, in the process divulging some personal history to help viewers better understand the relationship between the art and the artist.
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Mar 14
El nuevo Herald Article on the work of Julio Antonio.
The article is written by Carlos M. Luis and published in Spanish.
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Feb 23
Cuban Sculptor who loved the process of creating.
His work is beautifully exhibited in this blog.
Link: Christies Auction
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Feb 9
Art Nexus E magazine article worth a look.
Ofill made his debut as a member of the action and performance group “Arte Calle”
(Street Art) in 1988. While still studying at San Alejando, he established a radicalized guideline that differed greatly to the surrounding aesthetics-plagued with modern paradigms-of Cuban arts of the time…..
link: Emilio Ichikawa in spanish
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Feb 6
This article is in Spanish.
Interview published in Ambiance magazine Mexico.
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Jan 27
tags : Arcadio Cancio, Baruj Salinas, carlos luna, Contemporary Cuban Art, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Cundo Bermudez, Enrique Gay Garcia, Fran Golden, Gay Garcia, Julio Laraz, julio larraz, miami herald
Miami Herald
by Fran Golden
The naked lady with large hat, accompanied by a crying cherub, hangs outside a Deck 5 restroom on the Oceania Riviera, one of the newest ships cruising out of Miami.
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Jan 19
From an article in Arrested Motion
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada was recently invited to Amsterdam to work on a piece for the International Human Rights Day that helped to launch Vogelvrije Vrouwen (Defend women who defend human rights!). This campaign raises awareness to the plight of Mesoamerican women who are illegally targeted and terrorized for defending human rights in that region and was commissioned by feminist foundation Mama Cash. The large-scale land portrait that spanned almost two football fields (created with the help of 80 volunteers) is part of the Cuban American artist’s ongoing Terrestrial Series.
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Jan 19
By: Megan Voeller – Tampa Bay Creative Loafing
In the early 1970s, Mario Algaze’s career got off to a quick start when he landed a job as a Miami-based freelance photographer for Zoo World, a music magazine and competitor to Rolling Stone. For the then-20-something, Cuba-born photographer, the gig meant a chance to immerse himself in America’s revolution of sex, drugs, civil rights and artistic expression.
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Dec 19
tags : 2013 Aspen Award for Art, art, ArtCrushsummer, Aspen Art Museum, Contemporary Cuban Art, Cuba, cuban american art, Cuban American artist, Cuban Avante Garde, Cuban Culture, Teresita Fernandez
The Aspen Art Museum is proud to announce the selection of renowned contemporary artist Teresita Fernández as the recipient of the museum’s 2013 Aspen Award for Art. The award will be presented on Friday, August 2, 2013, during the museum’s 9th annual ArtCrushsummer benefit gala. The Aspen Award for Art is given each year to an artist who has made a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art.
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Oct 11
On October 2, 2012 the Emilio Sanchez Foundation closed after an eleven-year span of accomplishing its mission of promoting and preserving the legacy of the important Cuban-American Modernist artist of the 20th century, Emilio Sanchez. We are grateful to all the people who have supported, advised and helped us through the years to make this a reality. We have entrusted Sanchez’s artwork to over 70 museums and institutions, and his documents into the Archives of American Art. We hope that his work will be cherished, studied, exhibited and further brought to light.
Dr. Ann Koll has stepped down as the Executive Director and Curator of the Foundation and expresses her gratitude to the community of Sanchez supporters for the honor of working to perpetuate Sanchez’s contribution to the arts. Without her the Foundation could not have existed and achieved its goals.
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Oct 10
The University Museum, under the administration of Director Eric Barnett, opened an exhibit of some of the artwork of Cuban American artist Emilio Sanchez on September 24th at the main office of TheBANK of Edwardsville, located in downtown Edwardsville. The exhibit was opened in celebration of the newly established collaborative agreement between the University of Havana and SIUE.
Thanks to the Emilio Sanchez Foundation, the University Museum has acquired 490 works of the artist. All the works in the exhibit are lithographs with various themes and media that embrace contemporary abstract qualities.
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Oct 3
Memorabilia is Carlos Estévez’s fifth solo exhibition at Miami’s Pan American Art Projects. While continuing to explore such recurring themes as man’s place in the universe and human relations in general, the pieces in the show reflect a certain shift in his work—including materials and techniques, such as drawing and painting with smoke.
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Oct 3
Two works by Cuban artist Rafael Soriano were donated to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Un Lugar Distante (A Distant Place, 1972) and Candor de la Alborada (Candor of Dawn, 1994)
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Sep 18
In spanish
En su faceta como pintor, Umberto Peña es un maestro venerado por toda una legión de artistas, muchos de los cuales lo tienen como un referente de excelencia….
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Sep 9
In Spanish
From Cubaencuentro.com
A finales de la década del 40 y principios de los 50, apareció con gran fuerza la buena escultura moderna en la Isla de Cuba: Eugenio Rodríguez, López Dirube, Rolando Gutiérrez, Rodulfo Tardo, Núñez Booth, Roberto Estopiñán, Agustín Cárdenas y Tomas Oliva fueron sus creadores. Casi todos habían estudiado con Juan José Sicre en la academia de San Alejandro. Solo uno de estos escultores está vivo y sigue trabajando hoy en día con 91 años: Roberto Estopiñán. Él se queja de que su memoria le está fallando, que necesita de aparatos para oír, y que ya no puede recitar versos enteros de “La joven parca” de Valéry. Lo que no menciona es que todos los días hace un dibujo que comienza temprano y termina de noche, y que sigue tallando y modelando esculturas en escalas modestas.
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Aug 8
Published in Art Distric
By Adriana Herrera-Tellez
The dif!culty of and interest in the work of Víctor Gómez reside in the nature of his choice of an atypical modality ofprintmaking—monotype, which is as old as paper itself andproduces a single, one-of-a-kind print, hence its name.
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Aug 5
By CAROL VOGEL
August 2, 2012, 10:52 am
ARTS BEAT, The New York Times
A decade ago, when the Brooklyn Academy of Music restored its landmark exterior, the Brazilian photographer Vik Muniz decorated the scaffolding of the building’s second, third and fourth floors with images of a giant gingerbread house. It was a colorful confection: melted sugar outlined with giant jelly beans and slithering Gummi Worms recreated the building’s arched windows; giant M&M’s became its frieze.
Now, to enliven its newest theater – the Richard B. Fisher Building – which was unveiled in June and officially opens Sept. 5, the academy has asked the Brooklyn artist José Parlá to create its first permanent commissioned piece of public art for an interior space.
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Jul 10
It seems like once or twice a year the Internet experiences a gender studies firestorm in the form of a lengthy article asking a seemingly simple question: Can women really have it all? On a bright June afternoon in a Clinton Hill neighborhood park, Coco Fusco — performance artist and an associate professor of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design — is just one of the sea of moms juggling the child portion of “it all” that day. Her son Aurelio bounces from wooden table to table, eagerly awaiting his friends’ arrival at his seventh birthday party, as Fusco cuts slices of watermelon and opens up 12-packs of bottled water to keep the expected 15-20 parents and kids cool in the blazing sun. [. . .]
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Jul 9
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Koreatimes.co.kr
Two round wall clocks, two rectangular mirrors and two pillows on an empty bed — the two identical shapes evoke a sense of similarity, but they can never be the same.
The first retrospective of Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) in Asia, an artist who explored the fear of death and sought eternity, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Double” is going on show at Plateau in central Seoul.
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Jun 26
Arthur Roger Gallery – New Orleans
By D. Eric Bookhardt
ARTPULSE magazine
It has been said, most famously by the 17th-century poet John Donne, that “No man is an island.” And while no doubt true in the philosophical sense that Donne intended, human history has largely been defined by the things that isolate and divide us as individuals and communities, not the least of which are the ideological and geographical divisions that confront us in everyday life. In ways both physical and metaphorical, Luis Cruz Azaceta has long been an artist of islands. Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1942, he emigrated to this country in 1960, where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and made a name for himself on another island, Manhattan, as he rose to prominence in the Neo-Expressionist movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Jun 26
Publicado el domingo, junio.24.12
Janet Batet
Especial/El Nuevo Herald
Una nueva galería se consolida en el panorama cultural de la ciudad. Con sede en el Bird Road Art District, Ta Project Gallery se especializa en el arte contemporáneo, haciendo énfasis en propuestas alternativas. Su misión, promover obras de calidad sin representación en el circuito del arte local.
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Jun 22
From Art Nexus
Cuban American artist Enrique Martínez-Celaya was selected by a commission from the Hermitage Museum to present his sculpture entitled La Torre de Nieve (The Snow Tower) in the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The work will remain there from July 11 to November 21 of 2012.
La Torre de Nieve addresses migration, the loss of opportunities, and redemption. These themes are embodied in the figure of an overwhelmed looking young individual in crutches who is shown carrying a house on his head and back. This house is tied to the character by a cord tightened around his neck. The sculpture was created in bronze and is 15 feet high.
According to Martínez-Celaya “… La Torre de Nieve represents a journey and the hope of finding a new place for this ‘home.’ This notion of ‘home’ is both metaphorical and physical…”
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Jun 22
From
What’s Up Miami WUM
According to Peruvian writer Dr. Maria Espinoza, Miami-based Yovani Bauta is one of the most representative Cuban artists in exile.
Espinoza recently interviewed Bauta for the online cultural magazine Miami Sub Urbano.
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