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Saving Havana.
If you drive west along the sea in Havana, through Miramar, with its grand villas lining the boulevards, and into the chic leafy suburbs of Cubanacan--home now to embassies--you'll eventually come to a strange and magical place. Scattered across acres of rough lawn and overgrown jungle is a ghostly complex of buildings, in brick and terra cotta, with beautiful domes, vaulted passageways and silent courtyards--the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte, or National Art Schools. Wandering among these semi-abandoned ruins, you occasionally come upon a student. One young artist was using a white-tiled bathroom as a studio, working on a Warholesque painting of a big cigarette pack with ...
- Cuba's unfinished National Art Schools are being revived.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) December 29, 2003 700+ words
...Byline: Gary Marx HAVANA _ Roberto Gottardi...Cuba's National Art Schools _ will ever be created...Cuba's National Art Schools came to Castro in...at what had been Havana's Country Club...an art critic in Havana. "It was going...revolutionary who saw the art ...
- Saving Havana: Restoring the old Cuban capital is good for tourism. But what...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek McGuigan, Cathleen July 15, 2002 700+ words
...Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools." "We truly...of the National Art Schools--the idiosyncratic...jungle creeping in. Havana's unique, sophisticated...pilgrimage out to the Art Schools, too--visiting...key to preserving Havana's riches has...
- Viva Fidel! Cuba deserves acclaim for the conservation of its historic...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Stamp, Gavin April 1, 2007 700+ words
...resulted in the restoration of Old Havana being a source of pride for...the finest Deco building in Havana, now looks almost as good...20th-century buildings in Havana that is of international importance...construction of five national art schools on the site, designed by the...
- Sweet Dreams.(seventh Havana Biennial exhibition, Cuba)
- Magazine article from: Art in America TURNER, GRADY T. October 1, 2001 700+ words
...gathering area that protects Havana from the advances of the Straits...attitude has helped to make the Havana Biennial, with only seven...there was something unique in Havana: the Biennial's emphasis...especially those from Cuba, where art schools are remarkably successful in...
- Art schools: a group crit: a range of issues confront today's booming art...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Rubinstein, Raphael May 1, 2007 700+ words
...mode of artmaking--they focus on art schools and university art departments, rather...as did Frieze magazine's issue on art schools last September On the more cerebral...among those teaching at or running art schools and art departments here and abroad...
- What's wrong with art schools.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Martin, Jaymee van Lingen, Claude Dow, Jenny Terranova, Melany September 1, 2007 700+ words
...To the Editors: One point missed in "Art Schools: A Group Crit" is the fact that art schools tend to overlook the most important ingredient...need to develop a personal vision. Few art schools have a program in creative thinking, and...
- Philadelphia-Area Art Schools' Models Team Up to Negotiate Better Terms.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) May 23, 2002 700+ words
...Several dozen local workers hired by the region's best art schools are banding together to press for better wages, benefits...He did it to me. I went ballistic." Given the number of art schools in the region, the group estimates that there are hundreds...
- The Art Institutes opts for Discreet's 3ds max 5 for US art schools.(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire December 9, 2002 700+ words
...The Art Institutes opts for Discreet's 3ds max 5 for US art schools(C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2...animation and rendering software to a number of design and art schools across North America. The Art Institute reportedly wants...
