Exhibition Opening

Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: The Rice Collection of Cuban Art traces Susie and Mitchell Rice’s decade-long path of discovering the art and artists of Cuba. An extensive intergenerational exhibition of modern and contemporary Cuban art presents 79 paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, mixed media, art books, and sculptures by 53 artists selected and organized along six themes: The Language of Forms and the Forms of Language; The Prophet’s Dream; The Great Journey; Sensory Landscapes of Memory and Desire; The Musings of Narcissus; and The Spirit of the Real, the Reality of the Spirit.