Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Miami, Florida
frost.fiu.edu
through January 15, 2023
Surely there is no better setting than Florida International University’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum for “In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba,” an exhibition that shows how this famous island has been imagined by American and Cuban artists.
Well into the 20th century, U.S. artists such as Winslow Homer, William Glackens, and Childe Hassam projected an Edenic image of escapism, overlooking Cuba’s harsh realities of servitude, racial strife, and environmental degradation.
Since 1959, Cuban artists like Juan Carlos Alom and Juana Valdés have presented a different story.
The project is accompanied by a handsome 136-page publication produced by D Giles Limited (London). It features essays in English and Spanish by editor Amy Galpin and contributing scholars Jorge Duany and Katherine Manthorne.
