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Protesters send Castro a message: 'Let my people go', 1980 photo by Dean Musgrove. | Los Angeles Public Library Herald-Examiner Collection
The Cuban Exiles of Echo Park
Sculptor Sergio López-Mesa and composer Aurelio de la Vega, both prominent Cuban exiles, built distinguished careers in L.A. Their artistic contributions are memorialized throughout the city.
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From Contract to Blacklist: Hollywood Exile Experience
Suspicion of communism infiltrated the entertainment industry and émigrés working in Hollywood soon faced exile from their newly adopted homeland.
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Billy Wilder, Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg: Los Angeles Exiles
Exiled artists Billy Wilder, Thomas Mann, and Arnold Schoenberg relied upon L.A. to give new breadth and meaning to their work.
Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger. Courtesy of the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, USC Libraries.
Lion Feuchtwanger: Exile in Paradise
Los Angeles was once a community of exiled artists and intellectuals. Best-selling author Lion Feuchtwanger served as a cultural link between continents and altered L.A.'s cultural landscape.
Architectural Drawings Reveal Roots of 'California Modern'
Ruth Wallach examines hand-drawn sketches of mid-20th century Modern architecture in Southern California, an art form preserved in the archives of the Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library at USC.
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