Book Launch: Lydia Cabrera – Between the Sum and the Parts
The event is free and open to the public. Please register in advance.
Coco Fusco (artist, writer, and Andrew Banks Endowed chair, College of the Arts, University of Florida), Marcela Guerrero (curatorial assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art), Karen Martha (editorial consultant), and Gabriela Rangel (director and chief curator of the Americas Society) discuss Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sum and the Parts, edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel and illustrated by Lydia Cabrera. The publication is dedicated to the Cuban thinker and produced in conjunction with the exhibition Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking at the Americas Society (October 9, 2018–January 12, 2019). The first English volume dedicated to her life and work, this publication introduces her substantial legacy to a new audience.
Learn more abotu the Americas Society exhibition Trembling Thinking.
Event Information: Carolina Scarborough | cscarborough@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8367
Media Relations: mediarelations@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8333
Membership Information: as-coa.org/CulturalCircle | membership@as-coa.org
Image: Cover of Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sum and the Parts published by Americas Society, New York and Koenig Books, London, 2019
A distinguished panel discusses the first English volume dedicated to Cabrera's life and work.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Exhibition Funders
The exhibition Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking is organized in partnership with the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Libraries.
It is made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Additional support is provided by Genomma Lab Internacional and Mex-Am Cultural Foundation. In-kind support is graciously provided by the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.
Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Estrellita Brodsky; Galeria Almeida e Dale; Kaeli Deane, Phillips; Diana Fane; Boris Hirmas; Isabella Hutchinson; Carolina Jannicelli; Roberto Redondo and Carlos Manso; Erica Roberts; Sharon Schultz; Herman Sifontes; Axel Stein; Edward J. Sullivan; and Juan Yarur Torres.
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