The mailer featured one of the star works, an installation piece by the Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres composed of 325 pounds of candy, the pieces individually wrapped in blue cellophane.

Attending a lunch for the Cuban-born artist Jose Bedia were members of a collector's circle from the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama.

Other Cuban-born artists, like Jose Bedia, exploit the motif to this end.

The Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (Blue Placebo)," from 1991, the 325 pounds of hard candies, one of the most expensive work of the evening.

A Cuban-born artist who came to the United States in 1969, Mr. Sanchez paints figures that look like humanoids in carapaces.

The Cuban-born artist Abelardo Morell, who is known for superb combinations of straight photography and surrealism, has created two of the show's most compelling black-and-white pictures.

Félix González-Torres, the Cuban-born artist representing America at the Biennale, is an unorthodox choice - not because of the quality of his work, but because he's been dead for 11 years.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Cuban-born artist, Elsa Mora, and their children.

Metaphors abound in this compelling site-specific installation piece by Juana Valdes, a Cuban-born artist who now lives in New York City.

In 1985, Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist, jumped, fell or was thrown to her death from a 34th-story window.