Luis Alberto COPPERI - Camilo VILLALVILLA: Works on paper and canvas
Opening reception with Copperi
Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 7 - 9 pm
An illustrated talk and book signing by CATHRYN GRIFFITH for her book
HAVANA REVISTED: AN ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE.
Cathryn Griffith's book can be ordered from the Center at member's price, $40 plus $4 postage/handling.
Artist and photographer Cathryn Griffith examines Havana's most important buildings and public spaces by juxtaposing old tourist post cards with her recent photographs. It will be released by W. W. Norton in April 2010. This lavishly illustrated book, with a foreword by Eusebio Leal, city historian of Havana, beautifully documents the history, preservation, and present uses of Havana's most important buildings and urban spaces. Eleven renowned architects, historians. scholars, preservationists, and urban planners in Cuba and the U.S. provide a rigorous examination of Havana old and new that provokes exploration of the ways we look at all cities. These authoritative policy makers and thinkers raise issues of how the most important city in Spanish colonial America developed and changed over several centuries and the extent to which it is being restored and preserved today. More than 350 illustrations juxtapose historical colored postcard images of Havana with recent digital color photographs of the same views. The imagery, based on years of exhaustive research and investigation, draws from Cathryn Griffith's collection of more than 600 postcards of Havana from 1900 to 1930, more than 3,000 photographs taken there during multiple trips since April 2003, and extensive interviews with experts in Havana and the U.S..
CATHRYN GRIFFITH, a graduate of Wellesley College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, lives in Boston where she develops and manages industrial real estate. Since her first journey to Havana in 2003, she has made more than a dozen working trips there to photograph, in the process acquiring a broad range of contacts with scholars and historians in both Cuba and the U.S. Her postcard collection was the Inspiration for this book. A student of French culture and language, Griffith has written and lectured about the Musee d'Orsay and has also photographed in France. China, Tibet, along the Silk Road, and in New England.
Cuba Uncovered, at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck NJ, 20 Puffin Way, through April 19, 2010
Displayed is a selection of rarely seen works in many different media by renowned and emergent Cuban artists, including José Rodriguez Fuster, Adrian Rumbaut, Jorge Perugorria, William Pérez, Jairo Castellanos, Mabel Poblet, Manuel Mendive, Agustin Bejarano, Hector Velez Martinez, Alicia Leal, Montebravo and others. All are on loan from the Cuban Art Space of the Center for Cuban Studies in New York. Sandra Levinson spoke at the opening on Feb. 19. On April 2, well-known NJ artist Ben Jones, together with Bob Guild of Marazul Tours and Ann Sparanese will speak at the exhibit.
Free and open to the public. Tel. 201. 836-3499 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 836-3499 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. This exhibit runs through April 19. Regular gallery hours are Mon-Fri, 1-5 p.m. or by appointment.
January 18 - February 26, 2010
The CCS Cuban Art Space exhibit "Household Saints: African Spirituality in Cuban Art and Culture" was shown at the University of Rhode Island Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery
80 Washington Street, Providence RI
Hours: Mon-Thurs 9-9, Friday and Saturday, 9-4
The opening reception was held on February 2, from 5-7 pm with a talk by Sandra Levinson, Executive Director, Center for Cuban Studies and an altar presentation by local santero Steve Quintana.
February 3 and 4, 5-7, there will be additional programs. Ffurther information: 212.242.0559
December 9, 2009
On Wednesday, December 9, we gave our Carlotta Award to Pablo Armando Fernández, who honors the tradition of poets by contributing to spiritual survival from slavery to the present and for his valiant efforts to maintain U.S. and Cuban cultural bonds.
Program
Pablo Armando Fernandez, Saul Landau (Carlotta recipient) and Sandra Levinson, CCS Executive Director awarding the Carlotta and gift of a painting by Elio Vilva of Pablo's orisha, Obatalá
Havana Central at the West End
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