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The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations.
The Bienal de La Habana was an traditional Latin, Caribbean event, originated in Havana, Cuba, that aims to raise awareness to promote contemporary art and giving priority to Latin-American and Caribbean artists. The event was founded in 1984. It takes place in Havana every two years.
The Museum of Decorative Arts (Spanish: Museo de Artes Decorativas), at 17th and E streets in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba is a decorative arts museum in the former residence of the María Luisa Gómez-Mena viuda de Cagiga, Countess of Revilla de Camargo, sister of José Gómez-Mena Vila, the owner of the Manzana de Gómez.
"Tres decadas de arquitectura cubana: La herencia histórica y el mito de lo nuevo," Arquitectura Antillana del siglo XX, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco, (Mexico City, 1993) "La Habana siglo XX: espacio dilatado y tiempo contraído," Ciudad y Territorio, Estudios Territoriales, XXVIII (110), 1996.
The structure housing La Fábrica de Arte was built in 1910 as a cooking oil factory. [8] [9] [10] In 2008 a group of Cuban artists and musicians began to look for a centralized location in which art could be shown, leading to the group acquiring the closed factory in 2010. The current location opened in February 2014. [6]
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, is the oldest and most prestigious fine arts school in Cuba. It is also known as Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Academia San Alejandro, or San Alejandro Academy. The school is located in Marianao, a suburb of Havana, and was founded in 1818 at the Convent of San Alejandro.
The Piazza at Havana by Dominic Serres.The plaza during British occupation in 1762. The plaza emerged in 1559 and was originally called Plaza Nueva (New Square). It was built as a popular alternative to Plaza de Armas, the military and government main center, the name changed when another important square emerged in town, the Plaza del Santo Cristo.
In the late 19th century, landscapes dominated Cuban art and classicism was still the preferred genre. [10] The radical artistic movements that transformed European art in the first decades of the century arrived in Latin America in the 1920s to form part of a vigorous current of artistic, cultural, and social innovation.