Open Letter: Release Otero Alcántara [NYR]

The Cuban government is detaining the artist solely for expressing his ideas through his art and for his nonviolent defense of human rights.

To President Miguel Díaz-Canel:

We the undersigned condemn the detention of the Black artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a leader of the San Isidro Movement, a group of Cuban artists, journalists, and academics that campaigns for freedom of expression.

[…]The New York Review

[Artnews] Artist List for the 2019 Havana Biennial

Via ARTNews,

…83 artists and collectives that will participate in the main exhibition of the show’s 13th edition, which runs from April 12 to May 12 in Cuba.

Laeïla Adjovi and Loïc Hoquet (Benin, France)
Ravi Agarwal (India)
Ibrahim Ahmed (Egypt)
Leila Alaoui (Morocco/France)
Esther Aldaz (Spain)
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba)
Narda Alvarado (Bolivia)
David Beltrán (Cuba)
Marcos Benítez (Paraguay)
Isak Berbic (Bosnia)
Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro (Gabon)
Jose Braithwaite (Panama)
Alejandro Campins (Cuba)
Tamara Campo (Cuba)
Ruy Cézar Campos (Brazil)
Tania Candiani (Mexico)
Richard-Viktor Sainsily Cayol (Guadeloupe)
Colectivo el puente_lab: Juan Esteban Sandoval and Alejandro Vásquez Salinas + Mariangela Aponte Nuñez (Colombia)
Nicolás Consuegra (Colombia)
Max de Esteban (Spain)
Marianne Fahmy (Egypt)
Oscar Figueroa (Cuba)
Adonis Flores (Cuba)
Fernando Foglino (Uruguay)
José Manuel Fors (Cuba)
Ana Gallardo (Argentina)
Rocío García (Cuba)
Luis Gárciga and C.A.S.I.T.A. (Cuba)
Ghazel (Iran)
Dania González Sanabria (Cuba)
Adler Guerrier (Haiti)
Manaf Halbouni (Syria/Germany)
Katsuhiko Hibino (Japan)
Javier Hinojosa (Mexico)
Karlo Andrei Ibarra (Puerto Rico)
Geraldine Javier (Philippines)
Reena Saini Kallat (India)
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta Kalleinen (Finland)
Jackie Karuti (Kenya)
Clemens Krauss (Austria)
Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali)
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (Morocco/France)
Oscar Leone (Colombia)
Kadir López (Cuba)
Matilde Marín (Argentina)
Frank Martínez (Cuba)
Maurice Mbikayi (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Jorge Méndez Blake (Mexico)
Manuel Mendive (Cuba)
Ryan Mendoza (Germany)
Théo Mercier (France)
José Manuel Mesías (Cuba)
Alexia Miranda (El Salvador)
Asunción Molinos (Spain)
Lais Myrrha (Brazil)
Moataz Nasr (Egypt)
Cheikh Ndiaye (Senegal)
Tejuoso Olanrewaju (Nigeria)
Charo Oquet (Dominican Republic)
Romina Orazi (Argentina)
Donato Piccolo (Italy)
Sara Ramo (Brazil)
Hans Hamid Rasmussen (Algeria/Norway)
Pedro Cabrita Reis (Portugal)
Lourdes de la Riva (Guatemala)
René Francisco Rodríguez (Cuba)
Natalia Rondón (Venezuela)
Semilleros (Chile)
Mary Sibande (South Africa)
Ela Spalding (Panama)
Sun Xun (China)
Tadasu Takamine (Japan)
Taller de Arte y Experiencia (Cuba)
Yves Trémorin (France)
TRES (Mexico)
Dayana Trigo (Cuba)
Emmanuel Tussore (France)
José Villa (Cuba)
Maya Watanabe (Peru)
Alydia Wever (Aruba)
Alberta Whittle (Barbados)
Guy Woueté (Cameroon)
Camilo Yáñez (Chile)

Also, at Artempocuba.org