Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
Abigail Hadeed,Still Life | Still Lives – Not so Enchanted_The Ghost Ship, 2020, Digital Photography, 41.3 × 43.8 cm, Edition 3/5. Photo courtesy of Sour Grass and the Atlantic World Art Fair This article was originally published in the Jamaica Monitor in two parts, on June 13 and 20, 2021. It is posted here as... Continue Reading →
This post is adapted from the paper I have recently presented at the "Regional Workshop on the Conventions on the Illicit trafficking of Cultural Objects", which was hosted by the Jamaican Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. This workshop was held at the Jamaica Pegasus, from March 2-5, 2020. Among the topics for discussion... Continue Reading →
This is the first of a new series of shorter critical interventions on salient issues. The posts will pose questions, rather than to attempt to provide answers, and they are meant to be conversation starters, and comments are welcomed, as usual. There have been a lot of conversations here in the Caribbean, of late, on... Continue Reading →
People approach me all the time with requests for appraisals of works of art. While it is clear that the demand is present here in Jamaica, and that I could perhaps make a pretty penny if I would offer such services, I am reluctant to do so for two reasons. One is that I am... Continue Reading →
Some works of art reveal their content easily. Others challenge the viewer, and sometimes also the artist, to the point of resisting explanation. This is not a popular approach these days, in a context where easy artistic legibility is promoted by some, populistically, as a necessary condition for democratizing the arts, and artistic opacity dismissed... Continue Reading →
Here is another excerpt from my doctoral dissertation, "Between Nation and Market: Art and Society in Twentieth Century Jamaica" (Emory, 2011), which is taken from a section which explores how artists in Jamaica have marketed their work - (C) Veerle Poupeye, all rights reserved. The post is not illustrated, as I was unable to get... Continue Reading →
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