Arts and Architecture

Arts and Architecture, United Kingdom, Jamaica

Art Buzz (January/Febraury 2006)

An eye for the new Jamaica’s stately National Gallery is renowned for its historic collection of Jamaican art. Under the watchful eye of...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Irénée Shaw: gazing at herself

Here I am . . . looking at you looking at me looking at you looking at me . . . This is what the work I was looking at seemed to be saying....

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, Business, Festivals and Events

What the Caribbean is talking about this month

Art buzz Black and white stories White Creole postcolonial feminism, anyone? (Didn’t think so.) “I know. This is not stuff that people...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, Arts, Caribbean Diaspora

The art of being different

If the purpose of art is to force you to re-evaluate what you think, then inIVA (the Institute of International Visual Arts, based in...

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Arts and Architecture, People, Guyana

Bernadette Persaud: “I’m trying to show that here is beauty”

I was born in Berbice, but my father was a teacher, and we moved about a lot. In fact, at one time he was stationed in Linden a mining town...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Harold Saldenah: the historian

Harold Saldenah, 1925–1985 In all art-forms, creativity balances tradition — the lessons of the achievements of the past — against...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

George Bailey: the monarch

George Bailey, 1935–1970 “All attempts to get at the root of the Bailey magic have failed. Whatever charisma or vision or greatness was...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Ken Morris: the copper man

Ken Morris, 1924–1992 For four decades, almost every major Carnival bandleader sought out his skill in metal-work and costume...

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