The CINTAS Fellowship Program encourages creative development in architecture & design, creative writing, music composition and the visual arts. The CINTAS Foundation was established with funds from the estate of Oscar B. Cintas (1887-1957), former Cuban ambassador to the United States, a prominent industrialist and patron of the arts. In June 2011, the CINTAS Foundation entered into an extended loan to MDC’s Museum of Art + Design of the CINTAS Fellows Collection. It is comprised [...]

Surreptitious Stripes brings together two polyptychs from the series An Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces by the Cuban artist Francisco Masó. The works are based on documentary photographs and videos showing regulatory mechanisms in Cuban civil society. Masó develops an abstract geometric register from polo shirts imported by the government and distributed to workers of various political bodies. Textile designs consisting mostly of horizontal lines become, in essence, undercover uniforms, even when they are not identified as such by the [...]

The Cuban Matrix is an ambitious project featuring an in-depth look at contemporary Cuban artwork, with emphasis on digital media exchange culture. The focus of the exhibition is the offline digital “mercado” (marketplace) sharing culture that has arisen around the phenomenon of “El Paquete Semanal”: a weekly terabyte packet of entertainment, downloaded webpages and information that is carried into Cuba, shared and consumed throughout Cuban society. The works that TAM will be hosting exist and were created in conditions tempered by limited access to the virtual information systems that most of the developed [...]

Could a linear construction of history, and thus of the history of art, be sufficient in such a complex and contradictory geographic area as Latin America, where, as stated by Alejo Carpentier, the past and the present coexist? This question, posed from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection -mostly conformed by Latin American geometric abstraction and parallel explorations from Spain and Portugal in the 20th and 21st centuries, and even from South Africa, as part of the new global South- has led us to privilege a diachronic approach, with an open [...]

Muestra de Cine 3D fue un evento cultural sin fines de lucro -dirigido a todo tipo de público- que exhibió una selección de producciones relevantes de la Historia del Cine. La aparición de salas de cine 3D como una variante de trabajo por cuenta propia, la creciente demanda de consumo de la población cubana en torno a la producción audiovisual y el posterior cierre inmediato -en el año 2013- de estos espacios alternativos por una prerrogativa estatal; constituyeron los detonantes del evento. El mismo se propuso “revivir la experiencia 3D” apoyado en la exhibición de un cine de [...]