Stories

From the Collection: “Untitled (Balcony House on Market Street)” (ca 1920) by James Osborne “Doc” Sands

Creative Youth: Reevaluating Our Values and the Work of Young People

The Art of Living in the Tropics, Part Three: Silence

The Moving Image: The First Turn of the Revolution

A Death Foretold: Whitehead & Pratt on Beauty and Loss

A Distant Bahamas: “Native Hut” (1915) by Hartwell Leon Woodcock

There’s a Man on the Floor: Edrin Symonette’s Man Skin Rug

Ferguson’s Fantastic Dragon: Blending the imagination with the biblical

Cultivating the Local: In the wake of change

If an Entire Population Moves, Is It Still a Nation?: Post-Irma and Post-Colonial Devastation

Kendra Frorup’s Domestic Chickens

San Salvador as Culture: Exploring New Economies, Working Against Collapse

MasC Off: NE9 Artists Challenge Social Binary Views on Gender

“Traversing the Picturesque: For Sentimental Value” – The Colonial Gaze

Dialect and Diaspora: The Intuitive Art of Joseph “Joe Monks” Weaver

The art of living in the tropics. Part II: Hand come, hand go

Dave Smith “Violence, the beauty of paradise”: The art of capturing the lingering impact

Mhudda: Jackson Burnside’s socially aware look at the struggles of the Bahamian “everyday”

The Mark of a Woman: Portraits of Black Womanhood in the Work of Gabrielle Banks

The Liberal: Thierry Lamare’s Sincerity in Rendering Bahamian Life

Spirituality without religion and religion without spirituality? The magic meeting of both

Lavar Munroe’s ‘Migrant’

The Straw Paradox

Cultural Tourism on Exuma: A Gem for Few, a Gem for All

From the Collection: “The Deanery” (1979) by Alton Lowe

From the Collection: Lavar Munroe’s “The Migrant”

The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA

We Lost Two Cultures That Day: Hurricane Irma and the Loss of Cultural Material

Everybody and Dey Grammy

The Weight We Bear: Heino Schmid’s monumental drawings in the NE9

Brent Malone’s ‘Balinese Woman With Flamingoes’

Villa Doyle and Beyond: Expanding NAGB’s Footprint

Max and Amos: Enchantment and Magical Realism in Service to Freedom

A Sustainable Future For Exuma: Learning to live within our means, and with each other as global citizens

Peggy Hering’s “Lilies” (1984): On Being Both Student and Teacher

From the Collection: Lynn Parotti’s “The Blastocyst’s Ball: A Journey Through the Drug Induced stages of IVF”

The art of living in the tropics: An art of survival?

‘Slam-Bam’ Sands: ‘The hastily hand-coloured colonial postcards of James “Doc” Sands.’

Art, Culture, and Representation: Reflecting on Self and Nation

From the Collection: Chelsea Pottery “A Brief Bahamian History of Clay”

The art of connectivity: Sinking our roots further down.

Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens

Beyond Objecthood: The Straw Baskets of William ‘Old Iron’ Colebrooke

The Gall To Speak: NE8 Artists Venturing into Gaulin Folklore

We Live at the Undersides

Inside The Silverfish: Cin on Craft, Culture, and Consumption

Check Yourself: Thinking About Stereotypes and Chan Pratt’s Sincerity in Painting Over-the-Hill

“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular

The Case for Lavar Munroe: The Son of Soil

Indigeneity and Art: Defining Our Values

Grave Silence: Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan Give Voice to Victims of Rape in The Caribbean

Painting to heal: Artist Gabrielle Banks lays bare the burdens of her troubled past

The Translation Conversation: Migration and Navigating Blackness in Bahamian Womanhood

The Power of Imprisonment through language: The Eye for the Tropics and Majority Rule in The Bahamas

Gendered Norms and Deconstruction: The Body, the Image, and the Ability to Speak Out for Self

Danny Davis brings a colonial interpretation to NE9’s “The Fruit and The Seed.”

‘Picture Nassau’: Capturing and Redefining the Cultural Landscape

Curtain Call for the Colonial in Sanford Sawyer’s Studio Photographs

The January Artwork of the Month is ‘Beller’

Feature from the Collection: Burnside Crowns a King

I’s Man: Ian Strachan’s documentary on masculinity in The Bahamas captures the polemics of today’s ‘Man Crisis’. 

The Beauty and Charm of Colonialism: April Bey’s “Power Girl” Series

From the Collection: “The Bussett and the Monkey” (1991) by Amos Ferguson

From the Collection: Blue Curry’s Nassau From Above

Max Taylor’s ‘What to Do?’

From the Collection: Rembrandt Taylor’s Madonna and Child