<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 19.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Helvetica"><b><i>Samia Halaby, Saturday, December 15 @ 3 p.m. </i></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 19.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Helvetica"> <b>“My experience as the first artist invited from the US in Cuba’s 3</b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><sup>rd</sup></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Helvetica"><b> Havana Biennial”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Helvetica"><b> Samia Halaby</b>, a Palestinian artist now living in NY, discusses her experience in Cuba, a state where the working class took power. She examines differences between the bourgeoisie's Venice Biennale of 1988 and the Havana Biennial of 1989. The presentation also provides background on abstraction and its sources in revolution, and contrasts it with the idealism behind current, very retrograde, capitalist painting.</font></p><div><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Helvetica"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Helvetica"><b>Center for Marxist Education </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>550 Mass. Ave, 2nd floor, Central Square, Cambridge near the Central Square MBTA station on the Red Line</b></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b><br></b></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b>Upcoming event:</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><b><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><b>New Year's Day Open House at the CME</b></font></div></font></div>
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