Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

I became a man when I was nine. My other option was death. I just didn’t know it then, but the truth is that I . . . we . . . had to leave.                                         […]

The CCCNY begins its celebration of Woman’s History Month with our ongoing Contemporary Artists Series, featuring an in-depth interview by art critic and curator Andrea O’Reilly Herrera with María Brito, whose paintings, sculptures, and installations have made her one of the most revered Cuban-American artists of “the Miami Generation.” She is best known for her […]

We cap our celebration of Women’s History Month with an illustrated presentation by historian Teresa Fernández Soneira on the Cuban woman as represented in 19th century photography, bringing to light the visual and literary history of their time through never-before-seen images taken by the first photographers who arrived in Cuba to develop their art. Her […]

A presentation of the latest book by Cuban historian Rafael Rojas, where he brings to light how censorship in the modern era has been a control mechanism to exclude communities of knowledge. The theory and history of censorship purports that the act of censoring is an exercise of power, which imposes a pre-established truth. In […]