The prolific Cuban-born artist’s first survey in many years has opened at the Brooklyn Museum. “It’s all about love,” she says. A review by Siddhartha Mitter for The New York Times. One evening back in Cuba, when the artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons was about 8 years old, she was visited by an owl. She was in her bed,…
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b.1959) came of age during an oxymoronic moment in Cuban history, a time when Fidel Castro simultaneously encouraged creativity and supported art education as he vigorously suppressed political criticism.