The NAGB prepares for a new welcome with Tyrone Ferguson’s Gates of Transformation
The Gates of Transformation: The NAGB prepares for a new welcome
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Building Community Effort: The NAGB Sculpture Garden unfolds with assistance from Rotary Club of East Nassau
After many years of discussion and a solid year of hard work and collective effort, the NAGB Sculpture Garden moved closer to becoming downtown’s native plant park and preserve, on Saturday, March 24, 2017.
MAXAMOS: NAGB Travelling Exhibition to open in Hope Town, Abaco
Family Island access to the National Collection is of immense importance to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB). Our country, an archipelago, vast in its length and breadth presents a challenge to facilitating such a critical component of our mission. To answer the call of sharing Bahamian art with every citizen possible, the NAGB developed a travelling exhibition using the works of two iconic Bahamian masters: Max Taylor and Amos Ferguson.
Different Strokes: Learning Through Painting at the NAGB
The painting workshop series at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), starting today, November 26, is just another side of our range of programming here. We have talks and openings and all the things often associated with a National Gallery, but we also offer more practical, tangible knowledge that we pass on and other learning opportunities and experiences that we expose our local public to.
Celebrating Women International: Recognition, representation, and diversity at the NAGB
The recent honour given to National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) staff in recognition of efforts and achievements, provide a moment of deeper thought on what this success means on a larger scale. Division is, in many ways, the trend for 2016 – the year that has B.I.G. level notoriety for just about everything going wrong.
Krista Thompson Brings a Critical Eye to What is Confined to the Footnotes of Art History
Jacqueline Bishop for The Huffington Post shares: “For art historian Krista Thompson, a region like the Caribbean could do with more people studying art history since there is a booming artistic community and not enough curators and writers to document the work now being produced. “I’d wager that in the future it is the people working in more and more niche communities, some of which have formed in the Caribbean, who will have more opportunities available to them in the field of art history.”
2016 NAGB Fall/Winter Film Series presents ‘The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists’
On October 27th, the NAGB will showcase American director Les Blank’s 1994 film ‘The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists’ starting at 8 pm.
‘The NAGB’s Eleutheran Adventure’: Rethinking Access
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is locally known as the NAGB; however, many people make the mistake—in speech and print—of calling us the “Nassau” Art Gallery. Perhaps this slip is well-deserved: with attention focused on the preservation and management of the historic building that houses the NAGB (Villa Doyle); the National Collection itself of over 350 art pieces, needing continual care and maintenance; and the busy rotation of exhibitions (up to 14 in a single year, not including talks, events, book launches, film screenings, and other programming), there is plenty to keep us busy.
Our Reading Room: ‘Sustainable Exuma’ creates a comfy space for us to learn.
A Sustainable Future for Exuma presents several volumes in our reading nook including: The World Without Us – Alan Weisman; Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities) – Timothy Morton; The Ethics of Earth Art – Amanda Boetzkes; The End of Nature – Bill McKibben; Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (A John Hope Franklin Centre Book) – Jane Bennett; The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things – Hannah Holmes and The Last Pictures – Trevor Paglen among others.
The NAGB hosts exhibition in Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera
On Saturday, September 10, 2016, the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas opened a one-week pop-up space in Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera showcasing an exhibition entitled “Max-Amos: A Tale of Two Paradises,” composed of selected works from the National Collection by Bahamian master artists Amos Ferguson (b. 1920 Exuma – d. 2009 Nassau) and Max Taylor (b. 1939, Nassau).