Women artists

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

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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.

red, yellow, green ,white and beige shapes in a painting

The movement to restore the memory of Spain’s forgotten women artists

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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’

"Saint Catherine in Prayer," by the 16th century painter Plautilla Nelli, was restored in 2008. Nelli was featured in 2017 as part of the Uffizi's new focus on women artists of the past.

In Florence, they’re bringing the works of women artists out of the basement

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Natasha Kroupensky and Aline Herrera

These young Mexican women artists are speaking up

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