The fight to save Cuba’s art schools | CNN
Jun 3, 2016 · Conceived more than five decades ago by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to bring arts education to the world’s underprivileged, Cuba’s National Art Schools lie on the edge of Havana, a stunning...
Cuba's Lost Art Schools | STANFORD magazine
The plastic arts and ballet schools, plus three others devoted to modern dance, drama and music, once made up Cuba's National Art Schools. Now largely abandoned, they were conceived in the early cultural fervor of the Cuban revolution, then condemned -- along with their architects -- as ideologically inappropriate.
National Art Schools (Cuba) - Wikipedia
Cuba 's National Art Schools (Escuelas Nacionales de Arte, now known as the Instituto Superior de Arte) are considered by historians to be among the most outstanding architectural achievements of the Cuban Revolution.
Derelict Masterpieces of Havana’s Forgotten Art Schools
Oct 13, 2020 · Of the five schools that were constructed: Modern Dance, Plastic Arts, Dramatic Arts, Music, and Ballet– Garatti’s Ballet School certainly stood out. A surprising labyrinth of daring brick vaults meant to express the hopes for a new society.
Cuba’s National Art Schools Are an Unfinished Masterpiece
Sep 20, 2018 · Looking over the rolling hills and green space, the two leaders resolved to transform the club into a campus open to arts students, tuition-free, from around the world.
Reading the Future of Cuba in its Abandoned National Art Schools
Jul 8, 2016 · The schools have become (and even at the time of their design and construction seemed to be) symbols of dreams, creative effervescence, and the possibilities of a new social order shown in the plasticity of space.
Restoring Cuba’s National Art Schools – New Support from the …
Oct 17, 2018 · Begun with enthusiastic support in the early 1960s, the National Art Schools fell out of favor by the end of the decade, and some buildings were left unfinished. More than 50 years later, much of the concrete is flaking and the brick …
The art schools Fidel Castro built—and then neglected
Sep 8, 2016 · The plight of the National Art Schools epitomises the twin challenges that used to face Cuba’s heritage: decay and neglect resulting from economic forces, or ideological opposition.
AD Classics: The National Art Schools of Cuba / Ricardo ... - ArchDaily
Sep 12, 2013 · The Cuban National Schools of Arts, originally imagined by Castro and Che Guevara, are perhaps the largest architectural achievements of the Cuban Revolution. The innovative design of the...
National Art Schools - World Monuments Fund
The buildings, largely abandoned, stood in near-ruin for years. Following the inclusion of the site on the 2000 World Monuments Watch, renewed interest facilitated the designation of the National Art Schools as a Protected Area by Cuba’s National Council of Cultural Heritage.