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

Breezes through Long Cay: Chapter 2

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

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

‘Picture Nassau’: Capturing and Redefining the Cultural Landscape

So Close Yet So Far

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

‘Sponge Yard’ (c. 1870): The Colonial Photography of Jacob Coonley

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

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

Finding Our Voices: Resisting Violence and Oppression

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

This has all been said before: Art, Racism and the words of representation

Conserving art in the tropical home

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

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

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

Climate Refugees: On Becoming Climate Refugees or Building Back Differently

Everybody and Dey Grammy

The January Artwork of the Month is ‘Beller’

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

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

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

March’s Artwork of the Month – Maxwell Taylor’s ‘Nassau Boy’ (1973)

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

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

From the Collection: Rembrandt Taylor’s Madonna and Child

Pasting Colours: Envisioning Alternatives

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

The Clapboard House: A Disappearing Relic within The Bahamian Landscape

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

Unearthing: Raising the Voices, Quieting the Noise

We Live at the Undersides

“Who the Hell Do I Think I Am?” (2012) by Margot Bethel

The Provocative: Drew Weech plays with the history of the nude in Western Art

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

Lamenting Slavery: Unearthing our history through art.

“Prayer in a Dark Place” (2013) by Jace McKinney: Hope in spite of sinking feelings

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

“Burma Road” (c2008) by Maxwell Taylor

Remedies for Remembering: Darchell Henderson’s new mural on Hospital Lane reminds us of our histories of healing.

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

From the Collection: “Let Us Prey” (1984-86) by Dave Smith

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

Owning our Image: Radical reclamation of self

A Teetering Bimini: Thinking about The Old Man and the Sea

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

Traditional Knowledge Living in the Tropics: Respecting Lifeways

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

The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA

Re-Encounter: Thoughts of a Mad Mind

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

From the Collection: “Poor Man’s Orchid” (1989) by Sue Bennett-Williams

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

Feature from the National Collection: Emancipation Day Boat Cruise

Civil Engagement as Culture: Unearthing Voices

Antonius Roberts “Procession of Females in White Uniforms”

Locked in Our Bodies: A Resurrection of Voices

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

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

The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on Traversing the Picturesque

“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular

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

Unpacking Identity with Joiri Minaya

Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking Memories of Womanhood

Denis Knight’s Lucayan Woman