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

“Duran Duran”: Exploring Themes of Longevity and Survival in Kendra Frorup’s Work

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

Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage

“West Street” by Hildegarde Hamilton

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

Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens

Gender and the Dream: Confronting Stereotypes in Black Masculinity

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

The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA

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

Rebirth: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

Breezes through Long Cay. Chapter 1: As Stories Fade

Apathy, Antipathy, and Action: Political Art and the Potential for Progress

Antonius, AfriCOBRA, and the Aesthetics of a True-True Bahamian

Searching for Empathy: Revaluing self in relation to others

Climate Refugees: On Becoming Climate Refugees or Building Back Differently

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

A mélange of culture: Prominent intuitive artist documents heritage

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

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

A Repository of Memories

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

The Mark of a Woman: Portraits of black womanhood in the work of Gabrielle Banks.

The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on Traversing the Picturesque

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

“I ga’ gee’ you what you lookin’ for!”: Tamika Galanis gets to the heart of the Caribbean’s history of looking

Feature from the National Collection: Emancipation Day Boat Cruise

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

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

A Body Of My Own: Anina Major reclaims the body

Considering the African Culture: Not forgetting the Asue

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

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

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

Unpacking Identity with Joiri Minaya

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

The Visual Life Of Social Affliction: Structures of Violence in the Caribbean

Pasting Colours: Envisioning Alternatives

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

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