The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to invite submissions for the juried section of upcoming Jamaica Biennial, which will now be held from February 26 to May 28, 2017 and will thus be the Jamaica Biennial 2017. The Jamaica Biennial, previously known as the National Biennial, is the National Gallery’s flagship biennial exhibition. Designed […]…
Alice Yard turns 10 this month. The yard used to be Sean Leonard’s great-grandmother’s home. Her name is Alice Gittens and she purchased the property in 1953, and instituted the open door policy that is a feature of the space today. Sean is one of the directors of the Alice Yard. The others include Christopher…
This imaginative book throws new light on the closing years of Caribbean slavery and the lives of enslaved people of African descent before emancipation in Trinidad in 1834. The book centres on the drawings of plantation life by Richard Bridgens, an English-born artist who became a planter and slaveholder in Trinidad, and examines these in […]…
You can’t save every site and heritage building, but we need to save more than we have. We do have success stories in Trinidad and Tobago, Boissiere House and Audrey Jeffers’ Home aren’t listed. The Former is a completed restoration, the other restoration is taking place with great care to ensure historical accuracy. But the…
I finally made my way to 101 Art Gallery to peep their exciting exhibition of the works of Dunieski Lora Pileta, “Ayo” Joy Phillip and Alexander Guerrero. Thank God I did because it ends today. My fave was Dunieski, his Bois Cano Angel in bronze is featured in the above photograph. His series of moko…
Just a note. The gallery closes at 4pm, not 5 as the invitation states. The exhibition runs until October 1st. Check it out!
On Friday I got to see Michel-Jean Cazabon’s paintings for the first time. I mean his actual paintings, not prints in a book, his hardwork was before me and it was an experience. Because I was there for work I didn’t get to take them in the way I’d want to, so I’ll have to…
Adele Todd’s examination of nationhood and our police service