Activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara plans to spend time with a fan of his work at a maximum-security penitentiary during Havana Biennial

Cuban American artist Edel Rodriguez, labelled a “worm” for fleeing Cold War Cuba in 1980, tells story of his progress from impoverished boyhood to creating alarming covers for Time magazine

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was imprisoned on charges of contempt and insult to national symbols when widespread protests swept the nation in 2021

A show at Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art and Design celebrates the work of the photographer Josefina Tarafa, who documented the creation of a dynamic new community

The artist also discusses her “meditation on death”, a film shot around and above Hart Island in the US

Open letter also says that the regime is ‘using art to salvage its public image’

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was imprisoned on charges of contempt and insult to national symbols when widespread protests swept the nation in 2021

The artist and activist staged a performance at El Espacio 23 during Miami Art Week "to remind people what is happening in Cuba right now"

Since the passage of the country’s repressive Decree 349, the state has gone to great lengths to silence critical voices—but artists refuse to be silenced

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was sentenced to five years in prison in June

After more than a year in prison, Otero Alcántara was convicted of “insulting national symbols”

Tributes paid to ‘extraordinary artist’ and her dazzling ‘hard-edge’ works

The letter, signed by more than 300 well-known figures in the arts, adds pressure to calls for the Cuban government to let artists live and work freely

Amid calls to boycott the Havana Biennial, artists and dealers are using Miami Art Week as a bullhorn

The Los Angeles-based artist on Columbus’s secret religion, Rauschenberg’s scrapyard—and the hunt for Belkis Ayón's grave

Artist and activist who has fled her home country says it is “immoral” to travel to Cuba "when there are so many people [there] who have been wrongfully imprisoned”

The Cuban artist and activist is joined on the publication’s list of 100 Most Influential People by Barbara Kruger and Mark Bradford

As Amnesty International calls on "prisoners of conscience" to be released, a movement starts to boycott Havana Biennial

Artists and writers are among those targeted by the government, causing human rights groups to raise an alarm about abuses

The 11 June protests, the largest seen on the island in 30 years, were sparked by years of economic hardship and a lack of government support for its people

The 27N member's colleagues believe he may have been tried in absentia for subverting the Cuban government.

The activist spoke about her own experiences with state repression and the growing movement for political change in the country

The San Isidro Movement founder was forcibly taken to a Havana hospital in early May eight days into a hunger strike protesting the government's clampdown on artist's rights

Otero Alcántara’s hunger strike and calls for free speech and artistic freedom in Cuba has drawn international attention

The public confession, which came after 36 days of imprisonment, marked a pivotal moment in Cuba's oppression of voices critical of the government.

"As long as the Communist Party is in power, Cuba will be a ‘dictatorship’," some believe as Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel takes over leadership

While the Eighth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party ignored the needs of the people, the activist group 27N published a manifesto encapsulating their aims for the future

Art professionals “on and off the island” are urged to stop working with state-run institutions that have been “complicit in their silence” as the government amps up efforts to squash dissent

Concerns for the cultural sector follow Trump’s parting shot at the country, and the Castro regime's growing efforts to discredit dissidents

The activist group 27N cites a law that revokes an official’s power for conduct unbecoming public service in their petition to parliament