Did Trump Affect Cuba's Decision To Cancel Collaborative Show With The Bronx Museum

The National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has -- for the present -- pulled out of a collaborative exibit with the Bronx Museum. The planned initiative called 'Wild Noise', opening February 17, was to include works from the Bronx Museum that traveled to its sister Havana institution in 2015, coupled with 60 works by Cuban artists coming from Havana to the Bronx.

The Bronx museum's executive director, Holly Block said: her Cuban counterparts at the National Museum did not say whether their hesitation stemmed from fears about possible diplomatic uncertainties under a Trump administration. “We didn’t get a no from them but we also didn’t get a final yes,” Ms. Block said. “So we decided that in good faith we’re going to do this exhibition instead.”

There is a high probability that the Cuban government is concerned about whether state-owned art works from Cuba could be endangered with a possibility looming of a seizure of them by the US federal government. Such an action might be taken to satisfy legal claims by Cuban Americans seeking payment for unsatisfied judicial claims connected to property confiscated in Cuba after Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.