The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is preparing “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” a major retrospective expected to show works by the seminal Afro-Cuban Surrealist. But several important pieces from Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts will not be part of the exhibition. Cuban officials declined to lend those works over fears that U.S. courts might seize them in legal claims brought by exiles over property confiscated after the […]

Let’s be honest: history often gets a bad rap. It’s seen as dusty, sequestered, and something that happened exclusively to people who wore powdered wigs. But in the vibrant coastal state of Goa, a group of college students and their professor, Rohit Phalgaonkar, are proving that history isn’t dead; it’s just scattered in three pieces at the bottom of a temple tank, waiting for a passionate student to fish it out. At the Sant Sohirobanath […]