Miami Embraces Cuba-Based Artists As Tensions Linger

President Donald Trump's effort to reverse a historic opening with Cuba is raising tensions in South Florida,.

Some wealthy patrons and institutions are hoping art can unify Cuban exiles and Cubans on the island. 

Museums and cultural centers are rewriting old rules on what Cuban art has a place in Miami, decades after exiles bombed a gallery and torched a painting to enforce an unofficial ban on artists living under Fidel Castro.

Collectors and curators now find receptive audiences in Miami when they show contemporary Cuban artists who established themselves under Communist rule. 

But by upending the old order, they're exposing a new conflict: Some artists in the diaspora see artists still working in Cuba as unfair competition.


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