Advance Magazine is a Cuban periodical that was published for the first time on March 15, 1927. With a fortnightly frequency, its profile is cultural and it referred to the different artistic trends of the time, both in Cuba and outside of it. . Among its editors it has eminent figures of Cuban letters such as Alejo Carpentier , Jorge Mañach , Juan Marinello , among others.

It is considered the most important and unique publication of the movement for the integral renewal of Cuban artistic, literary, intellectual and political life. It was a diffuser of the European avant-gardes, mainly the Spanish one, as well as other literatures and arts of the American continent, and an organ of its then young intellectuals or a place of exhibition of the Cuban plastic, aesthetic and literary avant-garde, which the magazine itself inaugurated. It was published between 1927 and 1930, the chronological center of the artistic and political generational group (1923-1933).

The ideological basis of the magazine will be framed in a true discovery and revaluation of the thought of the national hero José Martí (1853-1895), in the search for the roots of Cuban nationality and identity and in the fight against imperialism and caudillismo. , but without partisan corset.

Revista de Avanza thus joined the movement of other Hispano-American, European and Spanish magazines of the artistic and literary avant-garde, and will publish some extraordinary numbers such as those dedicated to the Spaniard Ramón Gómez de la Serna (25), to Mexico and its writers (28). , José Martí (31), the North American Hispanist and Hispanic Americanist Waldo Frank (42) or the posthumous tribute to the Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui (47). In addition to organizing the "New Art" exhibition , for which avant-garde art in Cuba is considered officially inaugurated, the magazine also created a publishing house, which will publish works by Mañach, Marinello, Ichaso and Sergio Carbó , among others.