Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
.Préfète Dufaut – The Magician, mid-1960s, oil on masonite, Albert Albrecht collection, Tampa Museum of Art (photo: Veerle Poupeye) I recently had the opportunity to visit the Tampa Museum of Art for the Reframing Haitian Art symposium, held there on June 9. The symposium, who brought together some of the key promotors, conservators and researchers... 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 →
Oliver Myrie - Facing Us, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 162 x 145 cm (Image Courtesy of the National Gallery of Jamaica) When The Face of Us was announced by the National Gallery of Jamaica as an upcoming juried exhibition, mid last year, I was admittedly skeptical. The recent curatorial debacles of the populist, dramatically uneven... 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 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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