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Cuban Artists Withdraw From National Museum Show in Protest – The artist and activist group 27N has asked the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana to remove their works from display in solidarity with artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. Alcántara was taken into government custody in early May after an eight-day hunger strike to condemn the Cuban government’s crackdown on artistic freedom. The group alleges that he has been held against his will in the hospital and has not been heard from for three weeks. (