Myths Legends and Cuban Culture on exhibit AJIACO at Newark Museum

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
Published: July 29, 2011

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Myths, Legends and Cuban Culture on exhibit AJIACO at Newark Museum- One thing you will learn at “Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul” is that Cuba contains an extraordinary mix of cultures, derived from many African ethnic groups, Europe, Asia and the native Amerindians. What is not apparent in this exhibition, on view at the Newark Museum, is that contemporary art associated with Cuba — that is, made by artists living in Cuba or who are Cuban-born but living in the United States — is similarly heterogeneous.