Stories

Returning the Gaze: Melissa Alcena in NE9

Seeking Divine Creativity: Allan Wallace’s new works revisits his religious upbringing

What’s in the frame: Tourism, art, installation and rebuilding the old whore of a body

The Nature of Art: In proverbial bloom

Tender Seedlings: Anina and A.L. Major Reflect on Pain and Love in the Bahamian Diaspora

Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s Poignant Banana Plumes

Amos Ferguson’s “Jesus and the Good Semeriton” (nd): The Colour of God and Histories of Faith

Denis Knight’s Lucayan Woman

Aftermath: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

From The Collection: “A Native Sugar Mill” (ca. 1901) by William Henry Jackson

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

Are We One With Nature? G. Paul Dorfmuller’s Nassau Corner

Speaking of culture: Thinking about change

Re-membering the past: Margot Bethel and Nicolette Bethel take on Transforming Spaces 2015 family-style

Something About Failure: Tessa Whitehead’s intimate questioning on success, failure, and what makes art work.

Beauty in Bain Town: How does Over-the-Hill Fit Into the Bahamian Picturesque?

“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular

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

When We Are Like the Trees

The art of connectivity: Sinking our roots further down.

Unpacking Identity with Joiri Minaya

Everybody and Dey Grammy

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

Strange Darknesses: Lavar Munroe’s sinister fantasy creatures in the “specimens” series.

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

Utopian Ecologies: Alex Timchula’s microcosmic garden sculpture for the NE9

Golden Touch and Go: Jace McKinney’s imagines golden kings and living dangerously in “Trumped” (2013)

A Glitch in Time: Who’s in for the Saving?

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

Living in the Shadows of Empire: Territories of Dark and Light

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

‘An We is Woman Too?’: Women and Labour in the NE8

Both Sides of the Coin

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

Made in The Bahamas: Authentic action, authentic support

Kendal Hanna’s “Rainbow Explosion”: Finding Self Through Abstraction

Preserving the Forgotten

From the Collection: Rembrandt Taylor’s Madonna and Child

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

So Close Yet So Far

We Live at the Undersides

Feature from the Collection: Burnside Crowns a King

The Translation Conversation: Migration and Navigating Blackness in Bahamian Womanhood

Villa Doyle and Beyond: Expanding NAGB’s Footprint

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

From the Collection: “Solomon” (2000) by Stan Burnside

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

A-Figuration: Emerging artist Nowé Harris-Smith’s obscured figures on view at the NAGB

The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA

Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens

Dialling Into the Void: Kenneth Heslop’s NELEVEN Portal

Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage

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

Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival

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

“John Beadle’s Row Yah Boat: Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.’ Wake up!”

Sitting with the Dead: “Medium,” a show of Bahamian Religion and Spirituality

Brent Malone’s “Seaside Village” is the February Artwork of The Month

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

“Five Children at the Water Pump” (1984) by Peggy Hering

From the Collection: ‘Bishops, bishops everywhere and not a drop to drink’ (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith

Earthenware figurines of women, featuring rounded forms, sit on a ledge against a peach-pink wall.

The Black Woman Body Paradox

Boiling: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

The Clapboard House: A Disappearing Relic within The Bahamian Landscape

Vulnerable ecologies: This Woman’s Work

Creating Thinking Spaces: Opportunity to Think, Build, and Grow