The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston presents the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of Cuban conceptual artist Reynier Leyva Novo. :Former Present Today" presents a newly realized installation and painting series to simultaneously reveal and conceal monuments, structures, and figureheads which manifest revolution and tyranny. The works are created through research on icons and memorialization and how the prestige of nation established through revolution utilizes both facts and myths as a means of propaganda.

Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display until March 10.