A walk through the archives at the Cuban Heritage Collection with Gladys Gómez-Rossie, the sight of José Kozer's name on a shelf, and the letter the great Cuban poet once sent on the Alice Parker documentary — recovered hours later from my own correspondence.

A Tuesday afternoon between meetings at the Frost Art Museum at FIU, where Modern Cuban Painters from Havana to New York: Revisited returns the landmark 1944 MoMA exhibition to American walls eighty-two years later.