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...fronts. Obama is loath to offend supporters of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba; yet even Latin leaders who scorn the Castros shake their heads at Obama's insistence on retaining that utterly failed and globally rebuked policy - a position he holds despite polls that show a majority of Cuban-Americans now favor letting U.S. citizens travel to the communist island, and which suggest they're also weary of the 47-year-old embargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Latin American Policy Looks Like Bush's | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s rise to power, a period of drastic cultural and political change in the island nation’s history. Marking this occasion, The Boston Printmakers, an artists’ association at Emmanuel College, are presenting an exhibition titled “Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers.” Since early October and continuing through Sunday at The Laconia Gallery in Boston, the exhibition showcases prints by over 90 contemporary Cuban artists...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beyond the Embargo: Cuban Art | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Though a few of the featured artists live in the United States, most of them still reside in Cuba. Cuban artists lack the exposure of many other artists because they cannot ship their pieces into the United States due to the business, travel, and financial restrictions that result from the embargo enacted during the Kennedy era. Many of the pieces on display could only enter the country accompanied by someone returning from Cuba...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beyond the Embargo: Cuban Art | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...important ability to inform the Boston area about lesser-known artists who have little opportunity or ability to publicize themselves. Additionally, Javan says, “Something like this isn’t going to come around for a while,” again citing restrictions on Cuban artists’ mobility and ability to introduce their artwork into America. “Making Connections: Contemporary Cuban Printmakers” offers an opportunity to engage with a culture that rarely gets publicized in America from a new perspective. “We’re bringing exposure to these wonderful...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beyond the Embargo: Cuban Art | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

JUANITA CASTRO, the younger sister of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, revealing in a new memoir that she worked undercover for the CIA during the 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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