Artists Space

Stone's Throw:
Television from Cuba, Island in Goliath's Sea

March 8 – April 7, 1990

Organized by Dee Dee Halleck and Monica Melamid

A black and white photograph of a television sitting on a low table, with a fan sitting on top of it. White text in the bottom right reads, "STONE
Catalogue cover for Stone's Throw, Artists Space, 1990. [A black and white photograph of a television sitting on a low table, with a fan sitting on top of it. White text in the bottom right reads, "STONE'S THROW, TV FROM CUBA, ISLAND IN GOLIATH'S SEA. ORGANIZED BY DEE DEE HALLECK AND MONICA MELAMID. MARCH 8-APRIL 7, 1990. ARTISTS SPACE."]

Cuban television -- soap operas, drug trials, public affairs reporting, aerobic programs, and much more -- will screen in the U.S. for the first time with the presentation of Stone's Throw: Television from Cuba, Island in Goliath's Sea. Also premiering will be Monica Melamid's Export TV: Anatomy of an Electronic Invasion, a documentary on "Tele-Marti," the controversial United States broadcast of United States Information Agency news programming and U.S. produced Spanish language television on Cuban airwaves.

Stone's Throw Press Release

Stone's Throw Postcard

Stone's Throw Program Cover

Wood, Joe, "Choices." The Village Voice. April 3, 1990. Vol. XXXV No. 14. Print.

Artists Space programs are made possible by: the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; AT&T Foundation, Inc., The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion, The Bohen Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Horace w. Goldsmith Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation, Inc., The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, The Menemsha Fund, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Betty Parsons Foundation, The Reed Foundation, Inc., The Rockefeller Foundation, The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; American Express Company, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Equitable Real Estate Group, Inc., General Atlantic Corporation, R.H. Macy and Company, Inc., Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and U.S. Trust Company of New York; as well as Artwatch, Galleries in Support of Artists Space, Members and numerous Friends.

Additional funding for Artists Space activities has been provided by: Art Dealers Association of America, Inc., Louis A. Bradbury Fund, The Penny McCall Foundation, Motherwell Foundation, Inc., The Pace Gallery, and Payson Enterprises, Inc., among others.

Artists Space is a member of the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO) and the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC).

    A color photographic picturing two figures who sit watching a television screen, their backs facing the camera.
    [A color photographic picturing two figures who sit watching a television screen, their backs facing the camera.]