Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
Jean Fouquet – Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels (c1452), Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp In this final post on my recent visits to several Belgian museums, I turn my attention to some of the larger art museums in Oostende, Brussels, and Antwerp (although I already discussed the Ensor Year exhibitions at the... Continue Reading →
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 →
Installation view of 81° West (with work by, left to right, John Reno Jackson, Linda McCann and Bendel Hydes, and, in front, Davin Ebanks) This article originally appeared in two parts in the Monitor Tribune. Part 1 Recently, I travelled to the Cayman Islands for several professional projects. One of these was the exhibition 81°... Continue Reading →
The Centre d'Art building in the 1950s or early 60s. It was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake (photo: courtesy of Le Centre d'Art). This article was first published, in two parts, by the Jamaica Monitor on September 19 and 26, 2021. It is posted here with some minor modifications. Le Centre d’Art is among the... Continue Reading →
The self-taught artist Everald Brown with the author in 1987, in the Kapo Gallery at the National Gallery. Part of Kapo's head (and turban) can be seen to the right Why is it that locally directed and published art criticism has all but disappeared in Jamaica? I am talking mainly about newspaper criticism, which was... Continue Reading →
Here is the second part of my extended conversation with the Jamaican painter Phillip Thomas (part I can be found here), in which he talks about his work and issues and interests that have influenced him, and on which he has strong and at times very provocative views. It is long but well worth reading... Continue Reading →
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