CULTURE

José María de la Torre says that in 1637 a church and convent was designed that would be dedicated to the Marian advocation of the Merced, redeemer of captives. This one would be built in […]

Historians, critics, theorists and audiences have consented to call “the four classics of Cuban cinema”, a set of feature films that are already half a century old. The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967), Memoirs […]

José Alberto Lezcano (born 1935) is one of Cuba’s least prolific film critics. Founder of the first Cinema Club and the Film Interest Circles of his province, he was considered by Rufo Caballero as the […]

The great difference between opera and ballet does not come down to the predominance of song poetry in the first and the world of body poetry in the second; lies in his own characteristic vision […]

This is understood by Virgilio López Lemus from his early youth and not to fall into the dreaded circle of “they don’t publish you because they don’t know you, and they don’t know you because you don’t publish” […]

The origins of the mosaic go back many centuries, perhaps to the time of Alexander the Great. But the story I now tell is more recent and goes back to the hall of a house […]

There was a road called Arcabuco in Havana. It departed from the vicinity of the Angel Hill in a westerly direction to where there was a cove or cove. When a soldier named Juan Guillén […]

A friar of the order of San Francisco named Sebastián de la Cruz, dedicated to caring for and curing the sick, founded a hospital in the old neighborhood of Ciénaga, approximately for the year 1570, […]

Talking to soprano Johana Simon is a very pleasant experience. Listening to her sing, a huge pleasure. In dialogue she is a smiling, uneasy girl, easy word and fresh laughter, very sure of her truths, […]

P this Afrokán, the Mozambican, the danceable folk festival, the murder and the possessed and defiant gaze of a young woman whose Africania planted a provocation to the camera, are the first images of the […]