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Blue Curry was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1974. He obtained an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London...more...
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Sasha Huber was born in 1975 in Uster/ZH, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in Helsinki. Being of European and...more...
Updates
18. 5. 13
The following feature is one in a series of posts on specific artists' works produced for the current Natural Histories exhibition, written by chief curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica, Nicole Smythe-Johnson.
Hope Brooks’ Slavery Trilogy is a combination of three series: (from left to right) Kings and Princes, Backra Pickney and Trilogy. The work explores...more...
17. 5. 13
Selene – Hew Locke’s first permanent work in London has now been installed - over-lifesized bronze unveiled on the façade of the new Nadler Hotel, Carlilse Street, in London's Soho.
Hew Locke says -
“Selene is named for the Greek goddess of the moon and of magic. I was commissioned to create a sculpture representing...more...
17. 5. 13
Sean Kelly Gallery announces Irreversible, an exhibition of new work by Los Carpinteros. The show will be installed in all three of the gallery’s exhibition spaces and will include new sculptures as well as a video installation—a first for the artists. An installation entitled Tomates will be presented in Gallery...more...
17. 5. 13
July 2013 marks 40 years of the CARICOM regional integration project from its origins in CARIFTA. The world has changed dramatically during this time, presenting more complex challenges for development; reshaping the integration project along with the perceptions of the movement, both in terms of its capabilities and limitations; and...more...
17. 5. 13
Trinidadian artist Rodell Warner opened his interactive animated GIF installation to the public at Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Trinidad on May 1, 2013. The GIF or Graphics Interchange Format is a compressed image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987. The compressed nature of the format made it suitable for...more...
16. 5. 13
Afrofuturism, is a transnational, diasporic, and cultural aesthetic that interrogates the past, present and future in literature, technology, art, or music, and challenges Eurocentric motifs of identity, time and space. While this approach has grown in the past decade, there has been limited engagement with Afrofuturism’s relationship to the discipline...more...
16. 5. 13
The Bahamas, which will host its inaugural pavilion at the 55th International Venice Biennale in 2013, will present Polar Eclipsea multi-sensory installation by Tavares Strachan that investigates themes of heroic exploration, cultural displacement, oral history, and the shifting of historic narratives over time. Three geographically and culturally disparate sites—the Venice Arsenale, downtown Nassau, and...more...