This machine can be thought of as capitalism, colonialism, racism, and all the other “isms” that disrupt true love and connection for humanity.
From the Collection & Into the Void: “Transformation” (1987) by Jolyon Smith
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Villa Doyle and Beyond: Expanding NAGB’s Footprint
By Letitia Pratt Associate Curator A sweet photo of a couple in love greets you as you enter the NAGB’s [...]
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Sounding the Alarm: Tanicia Pratt’s Blow the Whistle
Through sound and poetry, Tanicia Pratt transforms a simple signal into a call for awareness and response to gender-based injustices.
Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage
By Amaani Hepburn Justin Benjamin is a painter who primarily works out of his studio in New Providence. Most of [...]
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Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
By Letitia Pratt Associate Curator Between the years of 2004 and 2005, The Bahamas was hit by three devastating hurricanes: [...]
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Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist Read of Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika
Roberts engages with histories of the past, particularly those that have been erased or ignored through colonisation.
Antonius, AfriCOBRA, and the Aesthetics of a True-True Bahamian
Cin’s intention for this work was to talk about the precarity of the straw industry, in which so many workers and materials are underpaid.
19 Years of Bold, Biggity, Bahamian Art: Where Do We Go From Here?
The NAGB’s National Exhibition (NE) programming acts as a finger on the pulse of Bahamian art. As our, usually, biennial check-in on the status of creative visual culture in the country, the NE acts a gauge to see what our creative expression says about us as Bahamians: citizens, diaspora, and residents alike. After reaching our landmark 10th National Exhibition, NE10: “MERCY”, we must ask the question: how do we grow from here?
A Repository of Memories
Bahamian and Trinidadian artists investigate other ways of interpreting the archive in the eighth Double Dutch.
Everybody and Dey Grammy
Whether we were watching and waiting for the storm to hit directly, or watching and waiting for it to pass from the safety of our own sofas, Christina Wong’s “Everybody and Dey Grammy #hurricanedorian” (2019) struck a cord (and plucked on heartstrings) for all of us. From the hashtag to the sentiment of everybody collectively waiting with bated breath, we felt Hurricane Dorian as a nation — not in a nationalist sense, but rather as people living in, from and tied to this landscape, “born Bahamian” or otherwise.