Rachael Price Quotes

#1. I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.

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#2. I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.

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#3. There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.

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#4. US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

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#5. The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

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#6. I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

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#7. I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.

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#8. Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.

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