Stories

A Bahamian Aesthetic: Defining the Local in the Global

Balancing Act: Heino Schmid’s Temporary Horizon (2010)

“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular

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

Talking to the Dead: Tamika Galanis Brings Lomax Archive Materials Home

Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking Memories of Womanhood

“That Vodou that who do?”: Ancestry, heritage, memory, and light in the work of Eric Jean-Louis.

The Case for Lavar Munroe: The Son of Soil

Denis Knight’s Lucayan Woman

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

Dialling Into the Void: Kenneth Heslop’s NELEVEN Portal

A Death Foretold: Whitehead & Pratt on Beauty and Loss

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

Epistemic and Cultural Violence: Powercutting as Light

Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage

Adaptability & Draughts(woman)ship: Kachelle Knowles Builds a Practice of Representation That Takes Action

A mélange of culture: Prominent intuitive artist documents heritage

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

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

Amos Ferguson’s ‘The Queen Staircase’

Brent Malone’s ‘Metamorphosis’ is the March artwork of the month

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

Conserving art in the tropical home

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

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

Locked in Our Bodies: A Resurrection of Voices

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

Troubling Narratives: This is how we suffer to remain

Urban Scrawl: The potential for public art projects in Nassau

Returning the Gaze: Melissa Alcena in NE9

Gaia Reimagined: “Mother Earth” (1992) by Clive Stuart

Pasting Colours: Envisioning Alternatives

Finding Our Voices: Resisting Violence and Oppression

Considering the African Culture: Not forgetting the Asue

From the Collection: “Woman With Flamingoes” (1996-97) by R. Brent Malone

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

The Black Woman Body Paradox

Allan Wallace’s ‘Let There Be Order’

A Garden: Letitia Pratt Creates New Folklore in Response to Biblical Patriarchal Storytelling

Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s Poignant Banana Plumes

Striking the Balance: Reagan Kemp’s Emi

Push Out: Jodi Minnis and Ian Bethell-Bennett Investigate the Mythologies and Futures of Gentrification in Over-the-Hill

Majority Rule: A Snapshot of Our Identity

’21st-Century Needs’: The cultural task to survive and thrive

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

Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens

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

From the Collection: John Paul Saddleton’s “West Hill Hidden Garden”

Hearth and Heart – E. J. Read’s ‘Clay Oven’

We Live at the Undersides

Strange Darknesses: Lavar Munroe’s Sinister Fantasy Creatures

“Defender of the Faith”: Rembrandt Taylor’s Dragon-slayer.

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

It’s not just black and white: It is also colour, light, shift, and feeling

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

The Long Eye of Culture: A Mash Up, a Hybrid

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

Feature from the Collection: Emancipation Day Boat Cruise

The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on Traversing the Picturesque

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

Brent Malone’s ‘Balinese Woman With Flamingoes’

From the Collection: “Ain’t I A Good Mother?”

Boiling: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

From the Collection: “On the Way to Market” (ca. 1877-78) by Jacob F. Coonley

Breezes Through Long Cay—Chapter I: As Stories Fade

Traversing the Picturesque: A thought