Archive for the 'curator' Category
Varied Views for a Variety of Visitors
• December 15, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, African American History, Art Basel, Artists, bindings, book art, children's books, Cuba, curator, dance, Disney, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Orientalism, prohibition, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, A. Assus, Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Al Hirschfeld, Alex Rigorard, All the World's a Stage: The Sketchbooks and Theatrical Designs of Albert Wainwright (Wolfsonian Library installation), André Suréda, Art Basel, Atomium, celebrities, Charles Laborde (1886-1941), collecting cards, Colonies, Cuba, dancers, Daniel Morris, Donald Deskey, ephemera, Expo '58 (Brussels), Exposition coloniale internationale, FIU, FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, Folies Bergere, France, France's overseas empire, Francis Xavier Luca, French Guiana, French Orientalists, Futurama, Guyane francaise, Harlem Renaissance, Josephine Baker, La Reunion, La Tunisie, LACMA, Louis Antoni, Marco Brambilla, Maurice Bouviolle, movies stars, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (Mexico), paper toys, Paul Colin (1892-1985), pop-up books, Progressland, Prohibition, revues, Sheet music covers, singers, Sketchbooks, the Charleston (dance), tourism, Walt Disney
“All the World Is a Stage”: The Sketchbooks of Albert Wainwright
• August 19, 2023 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, collectors, curator, exhibitions, Fascism, fashion, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, stickers, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: actors, Albert Wainwright (1893-1943), altarboys, Anne Bolyn, artist models, Balillas, carabinieri, Castleford (England), choirboys, Clippings, Collages, costume design, costume designers, costumes, Fascist youth, Florrie Forde, Gondolas, Hamburg (Germany), Henry Moore, Henry VIII, Heywood-Wakefield Company, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, Katherine of Aragon, Labels, Leeds, Leeds College of Art, library installations, Luneburg, Magdeburg, male models, Marco Polo Bridge (Venice), memorabilia, Milan (Italy), models, performers, Robin Hood's Bay (North Yorkshire), sailors, set design, singers, Sketchbooks, Stickers, Theater design, theatrical sets, Venetian canals, Venice (Italy), watercolors, West Yorkshire (England), young men
Afro-Cuban Dance Music in Hollywood and Mexican Movies
• January 28, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, bars, collectors, Cuba, curator, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, museums, posters, promotional materials, Puerto Rico, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)" (song), "El Manisero" [The Peanut Vendor] (song), "Patricia" (song), A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Abakuá, actresses, Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban polyrhythms, Andrea Queeley, Another Thin Man (film: 1939), ballroom dancing, big bands, cabaret dancing, Carole Lombard, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Chano Pozo, Chicago World's Fair (1933/34), conga drums, conga line dancing, Cuba, Cuban exiles, Cuban expatriates, Cuban Revolution of 1933, Cuban Revolution of 1959, dancers, danzón, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II, Dizzy Gillespie, Dominicans, Don Azpiazú and his Havana Casino Orchestra, El Bar de Hilda, ephemera, Eva Silot-Bravo, film-noirs, Francis Xavier Luca, George Raft, Harlem, Havana (Cuba), Havana-Madrid (nightclub), Holiday in Havana (film : 1949), Hollywood movies, I Love Lucy (television series), Jane Powell, Justo Ángel Azpiazú (1893–1943), La Dolce Vita (film : 1960), Latin jazz, Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Luxury Liner (film : 1948), Margo, Matanzas (Cuba), melodramas, Mexican movies, Mexico, music, New York City, Nuyoricans, Pérez Prado, Perez Prado, Puerto Ricans, race, Racial prejudice, racism, Ramona Ajón, reggaeton, René and Estela, René Rivero Guillén, rhumba, Robin Moore, Rock & Roll, Rock Around the Clock (film), rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), rumba dancers, rumberas films, rumberos, salsa, Santiago de Cuba, Sheet music covers, Silvano “Chori” Shueg, singers, slums, solares, soneros, swing, The Beat Goes On (Panel discussion), The Cuban Love Song (film: 1931), Tierra Brava (film : 1938), timbalero, timbaleros, Too Many Girls (film: 1940), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), Un Extraño en la Escalera [A Stranger on the Stairs] (film : 1955), Underwater! (film : 1954), Xavier Cugat (1900-1990)
“Seeing Sounds” and “Geo-graphic” Flash Exhibits and Swinging Latin Jazz
• December 17, 2022 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, Cuba, curator, curators, dance, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, library donors, museums, posters, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "El Manisero" (song), "Geo-graphic" (FIU flash installation), "Mambo Madness" (song), "Mambo No. 8" (song), "Manteca" (song), "Seeing Sounds" (FIU flash installation), Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban music, album covers, Another Thin Man (film: 1939), cha cha cha, Cha- Cha- Cha- Boom! (film: 1956), Chano Pozo, Claudia Moltalvo, conga, FIU Latin Jazz Ensemble, Graphic design, Graphic Design III, interns, Lobby cards, mambo, Moonlight in Havana (film: 1942), music posters, Pan-Americana (film : 1945), Perez Prado, Plotting Power (Wolfsonian exhibitions), pop-up exhibitions, printmaking, Professor Michael Eckroth, Professor Printz, Professor Silvia Pease, Rhythm of the Mambo (film short: 1949), rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), Sheet music covers, Silkscreened posters, Too Many Girls (film: 1940), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition), Victoria Calveira, video clips
Michel (“Mike”) Bouvier Mathews (September 15, 1955–March 26, 2021)
• March 31, 2021 • 1 CommentPosted in collectors, curator, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Miami (Fla.), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Micky's Musings: Storage Company to Treasure Trove" (Members Only event), archival materials, archives, Betty Gutierrez, Coman Leonard, Dennis Curley, James F. Mathews III, Lea Nickless, Mary Hawk, Mathews family, Michel ("Mike") Bouvier Mathews, Mike Mathews, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., photographs, Sarah King, Steve Forero-Paz, Washington Storage Company (Miami Beach Fla.), Washington Storage Company archive, Washington Storage employees, Wolfson Foundation
Conrado Massaguer Exhibition on Google Arts and Culture
• December 22, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, archives, Artists, collectors, Cuba, curator, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: "new woman", Alcohol ads, Allies, American tourists in U.S.S.R, Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Art directors, Axis, bobbed hair, caricature, caricatures, caricaturists, Carteles (magazine), celebrities, Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), Coca-cola, Collier's (magazine), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban exiles, Cuban Republic, Cubans, Delphic Studio (New York City), Dr. Eugenio Molinet Amoros, Erol Flynn, Fidel Castro, flappers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gerardo Machado, Gibson Girls, Google Arts and Culture, Grafico (magazine), Havana, John Nance Garner, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Lili Damita, Magazine covers, Mahatma Gandhi, Massa-Girls, Massaguer family, Maurice Chevalier, Merida (Mexico), Modern art, movie stars, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), photographs, politicians, publishers, Santa Claus, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Social (magazine), Three Wise Men, tourism, tourist trade, virtual exhibitions, William Powell, world leaders
Caricaturist Conrado W. Massaguer and His Contemporaries
• August 20, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, curator, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, Folklorists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, photography, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, Alfredo de Zayas y Alfonso, American Weekly (magazine), Armando G. Menocal y G. Menocal, Axis, Babe Ruth, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bohemia (magazine), Bohemia Libre (magazine), Calvin Coolidge, caricatures, caricaturists, celebrities, celebrity culture, Charles de Gualle, Charlie Chaplin, Chian Kai-shek, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban caricaturists, Cuban exiles, Cuban presidents, Cubans, DiazCasas Collection, dictators, Diego Rivera, Don Alfonso XIII, Duke of WIndsor, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Enrico Caruso, Fidel Castro, Florence Mills, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Fulgencio Batista, games, General Francisco Carillo, Gerardo Machado, Ghandi, Harlem Renaissance, John D. Rockefeller, Jose Cecilio Hernandez Cardenas (Hercar), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Juan Eduardo David Posada (David), Karikato (magazine), King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Latin American illustrators, Martijn F. Le Coultre, mass media, Maurice Chavalier, Mexican caricaturists, Mexico, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), movie stars, Nazis, New Yorker (magazine), Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Paul Whiteman, pictorial wit and humor, playing cards, politicians, portraits, Prince of Wales, public opinion, Queen Elizabeth II, Ramon Arroyo Cisneros (Arroyito), Ramon Grau San Martin, record album covers, Romulo Betancourt, Salon de Humoristas, Santa Claus, Satire, self-portraits, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Social (magazine), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Vanity Fair (magazine), world leaders, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yucef Merhi
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019 with the Girls Scouts
• March 19, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, curator, displays, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Physical culture, physical fitness, political art, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), women, World War I, WWI, youth movements
Tags: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boy Scouts, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), delinquency, Eleanor Roosevelt, Figli della Lupa (Children of the she-wolf), forest fires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gender equality, gender issues, Gender roles, Girl Scout Troop 1239, Girl scouts, Great Britain, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, International Women's Day (March 8 2019), Joel Hoffman, League of Nations (10th Assembly 1929), male chauvinism, militarization of youth, Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, National Forests, National Parks, National Youth Administration (NYA), Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), sexism, Shoshana Resnikoff, State Parks, Suffragettes, Suffragists, Sylvia Pankhurst, tree-planting, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), Wild Boys of the Road (1933 film trailer), Young Pioneers
Honoring Women and Heckling Hitler
• March 27, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, curator, Disney, displays, donations, Fascism, fashion for women, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italy, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Pacific campaign (WWII), Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, Philippines, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Alexander Z. Kruse, archives, Aristotle Ares, Army Air Forces (U.S.), Aryans, Axis, B-26, boot straps, Broadsides, calendars, Charles L. McCartney Jr., Crypt Cracking, Dolores Trenner, Donna Victor, Envelopes, Espanolaphone, First aid, FIU Professor Terrance G. Peterson, Home front, Hotzi Notzi, Into the Stacks, jeeps, Jeffrey G. Fischer, joeys, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Kaiser Wilhelm II, kangaroos, Keep 'em Flying (magazine), Maps, March, Martijn F. Lecoultre, matchcovers, Max Halverson (1924-2006), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Collection, Michael Smith, Nathaniel Sandler, Nurses, Pamela K. Harer, Pamphlets, pincushions, postcards, Republic of Salo, rolling pins, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rosie the Riveter, Sand in their Boots (event), schoolgirls, sewing needles, Sheet music covers, Shoshana Resnikoff, skirts, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Thomas Barrett Archive, U.S. navy, Uniforms, USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier), Victory Gold Levi Collection, WAACS, WACS, wigs, Wolfsonian public programs, women in the Armed Services, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Women's History Month
From the United States, to the Philippines, to Tokyo, to Cuba: BAA & NEH Scholars Visit The Wolfsonian–FIU
• June 18, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, Alabama, American left artists, architecture, Artists, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curator, displays, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, graphic arts, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, Philippine American War, Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, Photograph albums, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African-Americans, Al Jolson, Anti-communism, Art Deco, Bavarian American Academy, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, block print books, death penalty, Dr. Amy Bliss Marshall, Dr. Hitomi Yoshio, Dr. Steven Heine, electric chair, Felix Lewis, Francis Xavier Luca, Hap Hadley, Japan, Josephine Baker, Koizumi Kishio (1893-1945), Lidu Yi, lino-cut books, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Nicolae Harsanyi, Philippines, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Quit Cryin' the Blues, racism, Remembering Tokyo (exhibit), Rochelle Pienn, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, summer institutes, summer programs, Tokyo: High City and Low City, United States
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