A Manhattan Museum Looks at Cuba’s Exotic Fauna and Flora

In a giant production studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in July, volunteers were busy making 2,986 tobacco leaves — painting, distressing and scrunching pieces of brown paper by hand. Nearby, an artist built part of a coral reef from towels, to get the texture just right, while a fellow artist sculpted a giant, killer prehistoric owl.  See More at A Manhattan Museum Looks at Cuba’s Exotic Fauna and Flora