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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...
DIED. GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE, 75, inventive Cuban-born novelist known for his offbeat humor and vivid evocations of pre-Castro Cuba; of a blood infection; in London. An exile since the early 1960s, he was best known for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres (later published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), a loving, pyrotechnic paean to the energetic night life of old Havana...
Thursday, March 3. CUBA’CUBA Island Artists Show. Mixed media “opportunity to experience the message of the Cuban people.” Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Baak Gallery, 35 Brattle St. Call 617-354-0407 for more info...
...reiteration of ancient stereotypes of the African-American male’s overpowering sexual potency. Although this image is briefly challenged by an end-of-second-act fight, the racial stereotypes continue to pervade the conduct. Will Smith’s love interest is Eva Mendes, a Cuban-American and the movie’s only other ethnically-distinguished person; clearly the casting director could not conceive of a black man ending up with a white woman...
...works in that vein were fantasies on paper or sets for Sean Connery. Some got built. Ricardo Porro is a Cuban architect who for a while enthusiastically served Fidel Castro but eventually emigrated to Paris. The Mori show includes a slide presentation of his two most important works: a pair of art schools constructed of brick and terra-cotta outside Havana in the early '60s, sensual structures based on repeated Catalan arches. But before they could be completed, Porro fell under suspicion for his bourgeois background and his Expressionist style. Funding was withdrawn and the projects left uncompleted...