Word: cubas
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...mosque, or launch a website, or commemorate the Holocaust at Auschwitz or find in a broken world so many saints of the church--more saints, in fact, than all his predecessors combined. Master of a dozen languages, he was the first modern Pope to visit Egypt, Spain, Canada, Cuba, Ireland or Brazil, the equivalent of circling the globe 31 times. To half the world's people, he was the only Pope they have ever known, or mourned. Thus the prayers came not just from the Catholic faithful but also from Muslims in France and Jews at Jerusalem's Western Wall...
Vivid colors and European styles mask the subtle political undertones pervading the work of Cuban artists in the “Cuba’Cuba: Island Artists Group Show” that ended its run at the Baak gallery on Brattle Street last Wednesday...
...galleries are willing to endure the complicated logistics of procuring artwork from Cuba, explains Holliey White, founder of Arts Amica, an organization dedicated to helping artists gain exposure outside of Cuba. Because of tight security restrictions, artwork is inspected numerous times on its way to the U.S. and must be re-stretched for exhibition—all disincentives for galleries to show Cuban work...
White started the organization in 1996 after a humanitarian aid trip to Cuba exposed her to the difficulties Cuban artists encounter in trying to find an American audience. She now represents over 30 artists. While each piece of artwork on display is drastically different from the next, there is contiguity within their vibrant colors and subtle political critiques. Juan Carlos Garcia Marrero, in his piece “Ship of Fools,” conveys the hardship and strength of the Cuban condition by way of bright tones and stark black outlines...
Eileen Kennedy, a contributing editor of ArtsMedia Magazine, a journalist and a painter, discovered Arts Amica while reviewing one of the group’s shows in Hyde Park, Mass. During extensive visits to Cuba as a journalist, Kennedy began to paint and exhibit her work there. Through her interaction with the artists, she learned that they are exceptionally skilled in graphic artwork like that of “Petroleo...