The Cuban Art Market Today

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An interesting take on the current state of the Cuban art market outside of Cuba from Daily Campello Art News:

“The collectors are taking advantage of a little-known exception to the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba: It is legal for Americans to buy Cuban art.” –Wall Street Journal

This suggestion and idea is simple, [...]

Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam At Dali Museum

Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam’s art is on exhibit at the Salvador Dali Museum in St Petersburg, Florida through January 11, 2009. The show displays Lam’s groundbreaking work with pieces from 1927 through 1972.
Lam, a contemporary of Dali’s, allowed his work to be influenced by his Chinese, African, and Spanish heritage, as well as by 20th [...]

More New Work By Cuban Artist Harry Ruiz Moreno

"Magia" Oil on Canvas (53"x41")

"Modern Fairy Tales, Chapter I" Oil on Canvas (39"x78")

New Work From Yendi Tomas Estrada Cancino

YENDI TOMÁS ESTRADA CANCINO
b. (1978–) Manzanillo, Cuba
Graduate: School of Visual Arts, Holguin
Now residing in Santiago de Cuba
YENDI demonstrates an obvious reverence for Rembrandt, whose spirit infuses many of his paintings. His work can be found in many private collections in Cuba and abroad.
Yendi has exhibited extensively throughout Cuba including a Solo exhibition at the [...]

Artists of Cuba: Antonio Ferrer Cabello

Santiago de Cuba is a lovely city nestled between the sea and the mountains, between blue and green. In order to understand that city and its artists, to its singular geological and architectural characteristics we must add a strong personality and a luminous, colorful, extroverted, noisy and welcoming setting.
Antonio Ferrer Cabello sings to the city [...]

Introducing Cuban Artist Harry Ruiz Moreno

Seven North and Arte De Cuba are proud to introduce Cuban artist Harry Ruiz Moreno.

Currently showing at the Goddard Center for the Arts, in Ardmore, OK, Harry’s works have generated tremendous interest and brisk sales.

"Our Masks, Our Selves" Harry Ruiz Moreno

Oil on Canvas, (43″x63″)

Born in Holguín, Cuba, 1973. Studies: 1984-1992: He attended [...]

Havana Cultura Cuban Art Site From Havana Club

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The Havana Cultura site is an exciting, vivid destination that is, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your bandwidth, all javascript/Flash driven. The site is financed by Havana Club brand rum. who appear to have spared no expense. Visual arts and contemporary music are presented TV magazine-style. Makes us even more anxious for the [...]

Wifredo Lam And Carlos Luna At MoLAA

Cuban Artists Wilfredo Lam and Carlos Luna are featured in two separate exhibits running concurrently at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, Ca. Both exhibits will run until August 31st of this year.

Cuban Art and “Island-ness”

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The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, which we won’t be seeing until the policies of the US government toward Cuba are relaxed, is hosting an exhibition of Cuban artists stressing the insularity (which we think can be here translated as “island-ness”) of Cuban art traditions. Certainly political conditions in the second [...]

Can’t Get To Cuba Till After The Election?

And the inevitable liberalization of trade restrictions that will follow? The Miami Herald outlines a little Calle Ocho tour of Cuban art galleries and eateries that may tide you over till you can get friendly with the State Department again.

And don’t forget to check out the great original Cuban paintings and prints we can deliver [...]