Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction at The Wolfsonian FIU

Photography by Samuel Rivas on May 12th, 2016 in Culture

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Miami, FL – May 5, 2016 – On the heels of renewed diplomatic relations and travel between the United States and Cuba, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presented an exhibition exploring our two nations’ past connections and first major period of cultural exchange, from 1920 to 1959. Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction, on view May 6 through August 21, 2016, sheds light on the glamour and exoticism of tourism campaigns that lured Americans to their southerly neighbor, as well as the remarkable impact of Cuban culture in the U.S. that resulted from this contact—from rumba and mambo to Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin nightclubs. Complementing the hundreds of photographs, posters, and promotional ephemera on display will be a series of reproduction record album covers and a floor installation of Arthur Murray dance steps in The Wolfsonian’s historic lobby, together activating museum’s first floor with a summer-long celebration of Cuban music and dance.

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