Visual Arts

Little Haiti Cultural Complex presents Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom
Fri 8 Dec, 2017 - Sat 20 Jan, 2018

Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom is a two part exhibition that features historical material and works by fifteen contemporary artists who respond to José Antonio Aponte’s lost Book of Paintings. Aponte, a Cuban freedom fighter, executed in Havana in 1812, was forced to describe each of its pictures during his trial. To spark new awareness of Aponte’s complex life and art, … +