Introducing A Very Wolfsonian Excursion to Havana
• January 27, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in architecture, conservators, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, library donors, museums, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Amelia Pelaez, Casino de Capri (Havana), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cubaocho Museum and Performing Arts Center, Enrique Riveron, Ernesto Lecuona, Francis Xavier Luca, Habana Hilton, Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Hotel Plaza (Havana), Jill Otto, Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Little Havana, Louise Levin, Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017), Perez Pradp, Prelude to a Night in Havana, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Roberto Ramos, Rosa Lowinger, Social (magazine), tours, travel, trips, Yeney Ramos
Havana, Cuba, Yesterday and Today
• August 8, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, American architects, architects, architecture, collectors, Communism, Cuba, curators, donations, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, hotels, library donors, memorabilia, museums, photography, postcards, prohibition, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, World War I, WWI
Tags: Aldo Gamba (sculptor: 1881-1944?), Alica Alonso Grand Theater (Havana), Art Deco office buildings, Bacardi headquarters (Havana), Cabarets, Capitol building, Casinos, Cuba, El Capitolio, El Malecon, El Morro Castle (Havana), El Prado (Habana), Fountains, Gran Casino Nacional, Habana, Havana (Cuba), Hotel Inglaterra (Havana), Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Hotel Plaza (Havana), Hotels, Marianao (Cuba), Martin Fox, Max Borges Jr. (architect), Prohibition, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Roderico Neyra, San Souci (Nightclub), Schultz and Weaver (architectural firm), sculpture, Tropicana (Nightclub), Vicki Gold Levi Collection
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