Museo de Bellas Artes. Music by Cuarteto Esparanza.

This band, named Cuarteto Esperanza, played at La Imprenta, a former newspaper/printing press, now converted to a restaurant. They passed around CDs for purchase after their performance. Their style was partly Cuban salsa, and partly Latin romantic, e.g. Besame Mucho.

There may be a music sample at this photo location in the future.

Art cards from the Fine Arts Museum.

Wifredo Lam grew up in Cuba and studied in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. He became associated with Picasso and other great painters in France at the time. He exhibited with Picasso in New York in 1939. 

With the outbreak of World War II and the Germans invading Paris, Lam left for Marseille in 1940. There, he rejoined many intellectuals, including the Surrealists, with whom he had been associated since he met André Breton in 1939. In Marseille, Lam and Breton collaborated on the publication of Breton's poem Fata Morgana, which was illustrated by Lam. Though the drawings he created in Marseille between 1940 and 1941 are known as the Fata Morgana suite, only about three inspired the illustrations for the poem. In 1941, Breton, Lam and Claude Lévi-Strauss, accompanied by many others, left for Martinique only to be imprisoned. After forty days, Lam was released and allowed to leave for Cuba, which he reached in midsummer 1941.  [Source: Wikipedia.]