The California African American Museum of Art—in partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Florida International University, and Fundación Amistad— currently hosts a retrospective exhibition covering over 50 years of Cuban visual artist Manuel Mendive's career. The show includes visual and performance work displaying Lukumi and Yoruba influences and tackling religious and political subject matter. 

The museum is also the venue of a second Cuban-themed exhibition entitled Afrodescendientes: photographer Roberto Chile in Guanabacoa. At the crossroads of photojournalism and artistic photography, the exhibit features the work that  Cuban photographer and documentalist Roberto Chile carried out in the Island's easternmost province of Guanabacoa, whose population is largely composed of Afro-Cubans. 

Cuban art is taking over Piazza San Marco's Archeological Museum during the next Venice Art Biennial! The Republic of Cuba's pavillion, housed in the museum in this 55th edition of the International Art Exhibition, will host an exhibition entitled Convergences and collisions, featuring Cuban artists like Glenda León, Tonel, Lázaro Saavedra, Sandra Ramos and Magdalena Campos alongside foreign names like Wang Du (China), Hermann Nitsch (Austria), H.H. Lim (Malaysia), Rui Chafes (Portugal), Francesca Leone, or Gilberto Zorio (Italy). 

"Goodbye my love" is an installation by Cuban visual artist Esterio Segura currently on display at a pedestrian passageway in New York's Time Square. Made up of 12 flying hearts, the piece is a reference to subjects of special relevance to Cubans and, more generally, Latin Americans, like separation and immigration. 

For more information, visit  Times Square Arts

Spinning off  No Limits, Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea's Park Avenue exhibition project, New York-based auction and exhibition space Phillips hosted a selling exhibition of small-scale sculptures and watercolors by the artist. Playing on the concept of "distorted verticality", Arrechea's series explores the relationship between architecture, individuals, and social change through reinterpretations of landmarks like the Chrysler Building, Citicorp Center, or the Empire State. 

Like every year since 2000, the city of New York will be hosting the Havana Film Festival, dedicated to Latin American cinema. Cuban film screenings include Amor crónico, a docu-fiction inspired on singer Cucu Diamantes's return to her homeland for a concert tour; Havana! Havana!, the acclaimed documentary on the new generation of Cuban musicians; and Day of the Flowers, a Scottish romantic comedy with Havana as backdrop. There will also be a special 20^th anniversary screening of the Cuban classic Fresa y chocolate as well as a series dedicated to Cuban cinema before the Revolution.  

The Bildmuseet (Umea, Sweden) is currently hosting Cuban artist Reynier Leyva Novo's first solo international exhibition. The show, entitled El polvo, la sangre, el sueño común, deals with a recurring theme in this young artist's work: Cuban history and, more specifically, the struggle for independence from Spanish rule and its influence in contemporary Cuba's collective imagination. 

Reynier Leyva Novo received the Havana Cultura Visual Arts Project  scholarship to carry out the piece "El orden de la batalla". He is currently working on the project—a historical map of the legendary Battle of Dos Ríos in which Jose Martí was killed— with a group of historians and cartographers. 

Picture: "Los olores de la guerra", Reynier Leyva, 2009. 

The Cuban timba band Havana d'Primera, under the leadership of the renowned trumpet player Alexander Abreu, has kicked off its 2013 Pasaporte tour! For a list of complete dates and venues, visit the band's official site. 

Artist Antonio Eligio Fernández Tonel will be featured in an exhibition at Factoría Habana gallery. Considered to be part of the 1980s generation of Cuban visual artists, Tonel comments national and international current events using non-conventional language borrowed from cartoon and drawing.