Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of Margareta van Eyck, 1439, Collection: Groeninge Museum, Musea Brugge (Photo: Veerle Poupeye) In a previous post, I introduced my recent museum tour in Belgium, in February, and commented on the initial exhibitions for the James Ensor Year. In this post, I take a closer look at the museums I... Continue Reading →
View of the mixed media installation Overlapping (2024) by Raúl Morilla at the National Gallery of Jamaica (photograph courtesy of Antwain Clarke) Public art museums are expected to operate with a healthy degree of curatorial autonomy, whereby the professionals at the institution are allowed to make decisions about the institution’s exhibitions, collections, and programmes, without... Continue Reading →
James Ensor – The Intrigue (1890), Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp On a recent visit to Belgium, I visited several art museums: the Groeninge, Old St Jan, Folklore and Lace Centrum museums in Bruges; the Mu.ZEE in Oostende; the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp; and the Magritte Museum and the Royal... Continue Reading →
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