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Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba Spring 2015 Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, this provocative installation featured distinctive Afro-Cuban art from the...

Diario de Cuba: ''Drapetomanía: Grupo Antillano y el Arte de Afro-Cuba' llega a Harvard'

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La exposición colectiva Drapetomanía: Grupo Antillano y el Arte de Afro-Cuba llega a la Universidad de Harvard este 29 de enero tras haberse mostrado en Nueva York, San Francisco, Santiago de Cuba y La Habana.

Harvard Crimson: 'At Crossroads: The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery'

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Indeed, the Cooper Gallery serves a unique role as a space for the exploration of African and African American diasporic identities, something highlighted by the “Drapetomanía” exhibition. De la Fuente says its most provocative piece lies at the end of...

Harvard Gazette: 'Tangled roots'

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The story of “Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba” is one of discovery and rediscovery. For visitors to the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, it’s a stunning find, tucked away in the former commercial space...

Cuban Art News: 'In Conversation: Alejandro de la Fuente on Drapetomanía and Grupo Antillano'

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De la Fuente has described Grupo Antillano as a forgotten visual arts and cultural movement that thrived between 1978 and 1983. The group proclaimed the centrality of African practices in national culture. For them, Africa and the surrounding Caribbean...

Boston Globe: 'Cuban resilience shines at Harvard, heroes take flight at BU'

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Grupo Antillano has largely slipped through the cracks of Cuban art history. The movement, active from 1978 to 1983, celebrated African and Afro-Caribbean influences in Cuban culture. “Drapetomanía: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba,” on view at...

Art on Cuba: 'Grupo Antillano y el Arte de Afro-Cuba llega a Harvard'

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La exposición colectiva Drapetomanía: Grupo Antillano y el Arte de Afro-Cuba llega a la Universidad de Harvard este 29 de enero tras haberse mostrado en Nueva York, San Francisco, Santiago de Cuba y La Habana. Curada y comisariada por el historiador...

Cubaencuentro: 'Arte Afrocubano en la Universidad de Harvard'

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Expuesta originalmente en el Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño en Santiago de Cuba (abril-mayo, 2013), donde fue descrita como “una de las mejores muestras de artes plásticas de los últimos años en Santiago de Cuba”, Drapetomanía viaja ahora a...

Improper Bostonian: 'Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present'

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After it appeared in the Cooper Gallery’s 2015 group exhibition Drapetomanía, Juan Roberto Diago saw his mixed-media piece Yo soy monte (I Am the Mountain) enter the Museum of Fine Arts’ permanent collection. A few years later, the 45-year-old Cuban...

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Artslant: 'LIKE IN REVELATIONS... and other such things'

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James Baldwin wrote, "The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers." Few galleries of art hold true to that magnetic north like the recently opened Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at Harvard University...

Arts Fuse: 'Visual Arts Review: Asserting Cuban Identity — Through Art'

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What does it mean to be Cuban? That’s a complicated question, bound to evoke different answers, depending on whom you ask. Raoul Castro might say one thing, Marco Rubio another. The descendant of a Spanish sugar producer, an African slave’s great-great...