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Tania Bruguera

Anti-government protesters march in Havana, Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs

'Obliged to exile': Cuban activist Tania Bruguera on the plight of artist Hamlet Lavastida

Justice

After spending time in a maximum security prison in Havana, artist and activist Hamlet Lavastida has been exiled to Poland by Cuba's government. Tania Bruguera, a senior lecturer in media and performance at Harvard University, joined The World's host Marco Werman to discuss the plight of Cuban artists.

'Obliged to exile': Cuban activist Tania Bruguera on the plight of artist Hamlet Lavastida
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera stands with her arms in the air, and dozens of people behind her, standing in the same position

Artist Tania Bruguera says Cuba's latest crackdown on the arts is 'the legalization of censorship'

Artist Tania Bruguera says Cuba's latest crackdown on the arts is 'the legalization of censorship'
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has been arrested by authorities in Havana three times in recent years.

Cuba's most controversial artist sketches the island's post-Fidel future

Global Politics
Cuba's most controversial artist sketches the island's post-Fidel future
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera reads from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" as part of a 100-hour collective reading in Havana May 20, 2015.

Cubans 'don't understand ... things like freedom of expression are things that belong to them'

Justice
Cubans 'don't understand ... things like freedom of expression are things that belong to them'
Pope Francis and Cuba's President Raul Castro confer in Havana on Sunday.

Cuban artists ask why their government won't let them create

Arts
Cuban artists ask why their government won't let them create
Tania Bruguera

Cuban artist describes regime's still-watchful eye

Arts

Tania Bruguera was arrested after trying to stage an open-mic performance in Revolution Square in Havana a few weeks back. She's free now, but without her passport, and "I'm followed 24-7 by a car and by people."

Cuban artist describes regime's still-watchful eye