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

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

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

Feature from the National Collection: Emancipation Day Boat Cruise

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

Climate Refugees: On Becoming Climate Refugees or Building Back Differently

Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist Read of Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika

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

To Heal We Must Remember: Katrina Cartwright’s power figure uproots the past

Cultural Heritage & Erasure: “Protecting our inheritance and patrimony”

Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival

Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage

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

Rebirth: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

The Wisdom of Amos Ferguson: Reflections on “Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”

Gender and the Dream: Confronting Stereotypes in Black Masculinity

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

Art’s healing properties

Pasting Colours: Envisioning Alternatives

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

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

A mélange of culture: Prominent intuitive artist documents heritage

Unearthing: Raising the Voices, Quieting the Noise

The Straw Paradox

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Lavar Munroe deconstructs “The Arrival”

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

Seeing the God in me: Jalan Harris’s “Self-Pollinate” and Cydne Coleby’s “A God Called Self” works

In the wake of storms:  Moving forward as a nation displaced

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

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

So Close Yet So Far

Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s Poignant Banana Plumes

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

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

Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking Memories of Womanhood

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

Art Documenting History: Intersecting complex histories with art

Traversing the Picturesque: A thought

Owning our Image: Radical reclamation of self

From the Collection: “Metamorphosis” (1979) by R Brent Malone

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

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

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

“Water: The giver and the taker of life”: Edrin Symonette’s “Salt of the Earth”

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

Feature from the Collection: Burnside Crowns a King

Finding Our Voices: Resisting Violence and Oppression

The Architecture of Loss: Memorials, Memento Mori, and the Man from Milton Street

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

“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular

From the Collection: Blue Curry’s Nassau From Above

Unpacking Identity with Joiri Minaya

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

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

From the Collection: Michael Edwards’ “Untitled II”

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

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

Breezes through Long Cay. Chapter 1: As Stories Fade

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

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

Max Taylor’s ‘What to Do?’

The Life and Death of Street Trees: Jenna Chaplin’s call to attention for the importance of street trees for the upcoming NE9

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

Lamenting Slavery: Unearthing our history through art.

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

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