I had initially decided not to review the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ)’s Beyond Fashion exhibition, which opened on September 30. There were several reasons for that decision. One is that I have written quite a bit about the NGJ, recently, and felt that I needed to step back for a bit. I can hardly... Continue Reading →
The More Things Change: Haitian Art in the Western Imaginary
Two troubling documents came to my desk recently and, well, they put a few more bees in my bonnet (it's becoming a bit of a hive in there!). One was a promotional article on a concurrent suite of three "Frieze Week" exhibitions of Haitian art in London that appeared in the Telegraph; the other was... Continue Reading →