Turning the Beat Around at a Concert With Palo!
• February 23, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in collectors, Cuba, curators, dance, donations, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban funk, Afro-Cuban music, Boxeo y Beisbol: The Cuba-U.S. Sports Exchange, Brittany Ballinger, Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), Cha-cha-cha, concerts, conga, Cuba: From Gunboat Diplomacy to Good Neighbor Policy (Wolfsonian Library exhibit), Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, Latin jazz, library installations, mambo, Miami Beach Bandshell, Miami Soundscapes, OS Photography Studio, Palo!, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Rhythm Foundation, Richard Miltner, rumba, Steve Roitstein, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023)
Turning the Beat Around: Spotlight on Chano Pozo
• November 9, 2022 • 1 CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, collectors, Cuba, dance, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, photography, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Bang Que Choque" (song), "Blen Blen Blen" (song), "Manteca" (song), "Nague" (song), "Sono el Clarin" (song), Abakuá, Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban music, afrocubanismo, album covers, Amado Trinidad Velazco, Anselmo Sacasas (Cuban pianist and arranger), Arsenio Rodríguez, “Ariñáñara" (song), “Conga de Los Dandys" (song), “Parampampin" (song), Bal Nègre (dance revue), Carnegie Hall, carnival parades, Carteles (magazine), Chano Pozo, Chano Pozo y su Orquesta, Chico y Rita (animated film : 2010), Coda Records, Colon Cemetery (Havana), comparsas, conga, conga drummers, conga drums, Conjunto Azul, Cuba, Cuban bebop, Cuban composers, Cuban musicians, Cuban singers, Cubop, descargas (jam sessions), Dizzy Gillespie, drummers, El Ataúd, El África, Entertainers, Ernesto Roca, ethnomusicology, exhibitions, Félix Chappottin Lage, Francis Xavier Luca, Harlem, Hotel Nacional Orquesta, Hotel Presidente (Havana), installations, Jack Harris' La Conga (nightclub), Jazz, Joe Loco Quintet, Jovenes del Cayo septet, jukeboxes, Leonardo Timor, Leonardo Timor (band leader), Los Dandy de Belén (comparsa), Los Melodicos (band), Luciano (“Chano”) Pozo González, Machito, Machito and His Afro-Cubans, Mario Bauza, Miguelito Valdés, musicians, Musicraft (record company), New York City, orisha, Orquesta Casino de la Playa, Pan-Art (record label), percussionists, photographs, religious Afro-Cuban music, RHC Cadena Azul radio, Roxy Theatre, royalty disputes, rumba, rumba dancers, rumbero, Santería, Santo Ramírez (Cuban percussionist), secular Afro-Cuban music, segregation, singers, slums, solares, tenements, Tito Rodríguez, Tropicana (Nightclub), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), Vicki Gold Levi, Victor (record company), vocalists, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yoruba religion
Turning the Beat Around: Spotlight on Merceditas Valdés
• September 28, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, collectors, Cuba, dance, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, photography, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "La Pequeña Aché de Cuba", Adolfo Guzmán, Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban music, afrocubanismo, Alberto Zayas, album covers, Ángel Valdés, Babalú Ayé, Cándido Camero, Chano Pozo, Cine de rumberas, CMQ radio, CMQ television, conga drums, Coro Yoruba y Tambores Batá, Cuba, Cuban musicians, Cuban revolution 1959, Cuban singers, descargas (jam sessions), Dr. Fernando Ortiz, Entertainers, ethnomusicology, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, Gilberto Valdés, Grupo Coral Folklórico de Cuba, Guillermo Barreto, Hermanas Oblatas de la Providencia, Ignacio Piñeiro, installations, Isúpo Irágüo (musical group), Israel ("Cachao") López Valdés (1918–2008), Jesús Pérez, Joe Loco Quintet, Los Bucaneros, Los Roncos (rumba ensemble), Machito, mambo, Mambo Rumba Festival (Carnegie Hall : February 20 1954), Margarita Lecuona, Mario Bauza, Mercedes Valdés, Merceditas Valdés, Miguelito Valdés, Mongo Santamaría, musicians, Myrta Silva, Ninón Sevilla, Obdulio Morales, Olga Guillot, orisha, Panart (record label), Phillips-Fort Dance Troupe, photographs, Pupi Campo Orchestra, Rafael Somavilla, religious Afro-Cuban music, Santería, secular Afro-Cuban music, singers, timbalero, Tito Puente, Tropicana (Nightclub), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), Universidad de Habana, vocalists, Yambaó (Cry of the Bewitched), Yoruba religion, Zun Zun Danbaé show at the Cabaret Sans Souci
WOLFSONIAN-FIU VISIT TO THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU
• March 4, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Arch, Art Deco (architecture), Chaim Lieberperson, culture, curators, Eva Shvedova, exhibitions, exhibits, George Dzialynski, Henry Hohauser, Michel Wolfsom Sr., Miss Florida, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida, Museums, Ner Tamid, Sephardic, Shabbat, Temples, The Chosen: Selected Works from Florida Jewish Art Collectors, The Jewish of Florida-FIU, The Wolfsonian, Torah, tours
REMEMBER THE ALAMO, RIVERWALK, AND THE HEMISFAIR, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: THEN AND NOW
• April 30, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American architects, architects, FDR, Federal Writers' Project, Great Depression, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NYA, preservation, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs, WPA
Tags: Along the San Antonio River (booklet), American Guide Series, “Remember the Alamo”, barges, domestic tourism, Edwin P. Arneson (1888-1938), engineers, exhibitions, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), flood prevention, floods, Great Depression, HemisFair ’68, Hemisfair Park, historic preservation, Juarez Plaza (San Antonio), La Villita (San Antonio), Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897-1955), Maury Maverick (1895-1954), Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811), National Youth Administration (NYA), New Deal, outdoor theatres, Pan American Day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), R. H. H. Hugman (1902-1980), River Beautification Project (San Antonio), San Antonio (Texas), San Antonio River, Southwestern Social Sciences Association Conference, Statues, Texas, Texas Independence movement, the Alamo, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Workers of the Writers’ Program, World’s Fairs
VIENNA’S ADRIATIC SUMMER: A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM RECENTLY ADDED TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• July 3, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in architecture, Austria, David Almeida, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Photograph albums, photography, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: albums, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Österreichische Adria-Ausstellung (1913 : Vienna), Bell-towers, Dalmatia, exhibitions, fashion, folk costumes, Ludwig III of Bavaria (1846-1921), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nicolae Harsanyi, ocean liners, photograph albums, Prater, restaurants, surrogate experiences, Theme parks, Venice, Victorian fashion, Vienna, water sports
A WINTER FLURRY OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENT VISITORS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 24, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertisements, Andre Durenceau (1904-1985), Architects, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automobile engines, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), designers, dragons, Empire Builder, ephemera, exhibitions, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Glacier National Park, Grammar of Ornament / by Owen Jones, graphic artists, Great Depression, Great Northern Railway, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Holland Robinson, Industrial design, Installation Art, Kiosks, locomotives, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), mechanical works, North American Indians in art, Oriental Line, Pochoir plates, postcards, Prairie Style (Architecture), Space Society and the Digital, Store window displays, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851 : London), Tori Arpad-Cotta, transparencies, typewriters, Wasmuth Portfolio, William (“Bill”) Bradley (1868-1962), Winifred Elysse Newman, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wood and linoleum block printing, Works Progress Administration, WPA
VISIT TO WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY ITALIAN CURATOR, SILVIA BARISIONE
• October 30, 2009 • Leave a CommentPosted in Coral Castle, curator, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Italian design, Silvia Barisione, Wolfsoniana
Tags: Bruno Munari (1907-1998), exhibitions, National Endowment for the Arts, postcards, vintage postcards, World War I, WWI
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