Between the Lines: Dwell Time

Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile and Repair

Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the JTS Library

Tuesday, October 24, 2024
7:30–8:30 p.m. ET
Online

In her memoir, Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair, Rosa Lowinger, a leading sculpture and architectural conservator, interweaves the materials and science of her work with the
story of her Jewish Cuban family and their state of double exile: from Eastern Europe in the 1920s and then Cuba in early 1961.

About the Author

Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-born American art conservator and founder of RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture, LLC, the United State’s largest woman-owned materials conservation practice. She is also a published author, most well-known for Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt, 2005), a book on Havana’s pre-Castro nightclub era currently optioned for television by Keshet International.

She holds an MA in Art History and Conservation from NYU’s Institute of Fine
Arts, lectures regularly at numerous universities around the country, and serves on the boards of
the Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection at University of Miami, Florida Association of
Museums, the Partnership for Sacred Places, and the Florida Association of Public Art
Professionals.

Praise for Dwell Time

“A masterful revelation about life and art imitating each other in maintenance and repair.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

“Dwell Time evokes a visceral, vibrant, complex materiality. From her mother’s aging body to
the spectacular architecture of Cuba to the history of marble, concrete, and plastic, Lowinger
brilliantly unlocks the stories that always reside in the material. Dwell Time is as intellectually
engaging as it is profoundly moving.”
—Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year

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