Cuban art makes a grand showing in Montreal

The prestigious Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is hosting the most comprehensive retrospective of Cuban art ever held outside Cuba’s borders. More than three years in the making, the show surveys some 400 works by more than 100 Cuban artists. More than half of the works were brought from Cuba; the rest are on loan, largely from private collections in New York and Miami and museums, particularly Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art and the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, whose holdings of Cuban art are the world’s largest outside Cuba. Paintings and photography dominate, but sculpture, poster art, music, video, magazine covers, installations, films, even cigar wrappers make an appearance, all with the objective of capturing Cuba’s elusive national identity, or “cubanida.”"*

*From: http://www.boston.com
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