Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
Memoirs of public figures, written by family members or (former) friends, are often as revealing about the person who wrote the memoir as about the purported subject. Or, to put it differently, such memoirs are really about the relationship between the subject and the writer. Paul Theroux’s Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents... Continue Reading →
Alberto Korda - Guerrillero Heroico (1960, in its original form) Recently, there have been a number of high-profile lawsuits, internationally, that revolved around the practice of appropriation in art – the use and interpretations of existing images by other artists. One involved the 1984 Orange Prince painting by the American Pop artist Andy Warhol which... Continue Reading →
Giovanni Marrozzini - President and Secretary of a New Farmers’ Cooperative Created with Microcredit, Abam village, Cameroon, 2010 For some years now, a remarkable black and white photograph of two older black women, dressed in work clothes and each brandishing a machete, while holding hands, has been circulating on social media. That the women are... Continue Reading →
Hoween Griffiths - Black (installation view), mixed media installation (Photo: courtesy of the Edna Manley College) The title of this year’s final year exhibition at the School of Visual Arts of the Edna Manley College is Undeterred. The titling of this exhibition is always instructive as it is invariably a sign of the times. The... Continue Reading →
Installation view of Dunkley Gallery, National Gallery of Jamaica, May 28, 2023 (photo: Veerle Poupeye) In my review of Narrative Evolutions at the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ), I reported that I was promised information on that exhibition, which had opened on May 28, 2023. More than three weeks later, I have still not heard... Continue Reading →
Installation view of Narrative Evolutions exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, It appears that my April 23, 2023 column [in the Monitor Tribune], What About the Summer Exhibition?, helped to stir some action on the part of the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ). On May 9, it published a set of flyers on social media, in... Continue Reading →
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