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Dialling Into the Void: Kenneth Heslop’s NELEVEN Portal

From the Collection & Into the Void: “Transformation” (1987) by Jolyon Smith

Boiling: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

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

The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on Traversing the Picturesque

From the Collection: “Cycle of Abuse” (2017) by Sonia Farmer

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

Pasting Colours: Envisioning Alternatives

Feature from the Collection: Burnside Crowns a King

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

Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s Poignant Banana Plumes

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

From the Collection: Blue Curry’s Nassau From Above

The Island Repeated: Toni Alexia Roach’s Patterned Approach to Confronting the Past

Amos Ferguson’s Junkanoo Cow Face: Match Me If You Can

Colonial Desires in the 21st-Century: Using Our Image Purposefully

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

Aftermath: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

From the Collection: “A Distant View of Nassau” (c.1857-1904) by Jacob F. Coonley

(Un)Monumental: How Do We Re-contextualise Historic Sculptures for Contemporary Life?

A Botanical of Grief: Yasmin Glinton and Charlotte Henay Connect with Ancestors’ Voices and Put Mother Tongue to Poetry

From The Collection: Amos Ferguson’s “Junkanoo Cow Face”

Returning the Gaze: Melissa Alcena’s work for the NE9 seeks to challenge the gaze on the Black Bahamian body

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

MasC Off: NE9 Artists Challenge Social Binary Views on Gender

Art Documenting History: Intersecting complex histories with art

Climate Refugees: On Becoming Climate Refugees or Building Back Differently

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

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

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

From The Collection: “Bay Street on Fire” (2002) by Blue Curry

Searching for Empathy: Revaluing self in relation to others

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

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

Kendra Frorup’s ‘Domestic Chickens’

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

Amos Ferguson’s ‘The Queen Staircase’

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

95%: Jordanna Kelly and Jenna Chaplin’s NELEVEN Installation

The Moving Image: The First Turn of the Revolution

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

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

Everybody and Dey Grammy

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

The Role of the Arts in Addressing Climate Change

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

The Straw Paradox

Unearthing: Raising the Voices, Quieting the Noise

Through the Eyes of a Tourist: Oh Island in the Sun, Funky Nassau

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

Look, Listen, Live: A Space for Artistic and Cultural Expression

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

When We Are Like the Trees

The Black Woman Body Paradox

Care in the Craft: “Young Children” (nd) by Frank Otis Small

Both Sides of the Coin

“The Story of “ETA”: Blue/Green Ragged Island” Ideation in Art and Design

The January Artwork of the Month is ‘Beller’

Traversing the Picturesque: A thought

Demure Facade, Colourful History: Sterling Miller’s “Villa Doyle” (ca. 1969)

From the Collection​: “North Star” (2007-8) by Heino Schmid

If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: The consequences of censoring self.

Potter’s Cay: Markets and the Importance of Public Spaces

Sounding the Alarm: Tanicia Pratt’s Blow the Whistle

The Aesthetics of Debt: Double Consciousness and Vision in the age new a new modernity

The God Self: Lessons on Self-Love from Emerging Artist Cydne Coleby

From the Collection: “North Star” (2007-8) by Heino Schmid