José Bedia, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Teresita ƒernandez, Glexis Novoa, among others. Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom takes as its point of
departure an extraordinary—and now lost—historical artifact: a
so-called “Book of Paintings.” Its creator was José Antonio Aponte,
a free black carpenter, artist, and former soldier who was also the
leader of an ambitious antislavery conspiracy in Cuba in 1812. Throu January 20, 2018.