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Still from “The Life Movie”

by Nicholas Laughlin on July 20, 2010

Now Showing (2010), silkscreen on paper, 20 x 27 inches, edition of one hundred signed and numbered prints, by Christopher Cozier. Image courtesy the artist and the trinidad+tobago film festival The camera, as it were, hovers gently in the air, looking down into an empty walled enclosure. A man walks past, glimpsed only in silhouette. [...]

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Looking: Young Talent V

by Nicholas Laughlin on June 9, 2010

Di Real Big Man (2010), by Ebony G. Patterson. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Jamaica One welcome recent development in the Jamaican art scene has been the launch of the National Gallery of Jamaica blog, which finally gives the NGJ a meaningful online presence. (For this we can thank Veerle Poupeye, who was [...]

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In hand: Draconian Switch 12

by Nicholas Laughlin on June 3, 2010

The latest issue of the Trinidad-based art and design e-magazine Draconian Switch was released today. Edited and designed by Richard Rawlins, DS 12 features profiles of fashion designer Robert Young and musician Nigel Rojas, photos by Rodell Warner, plus an essay on “the strangling of Carnival” and coverage of recent artists’ projects. Download the PDF [...]

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Lost in space

by Nicholas Laughlin on June 2, 2010

Finding My Way Home 2, by Tavares Strachan, from Orthostatic Tolerance. Image originally published in the Boston Globe The Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan’s latest project — Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea If I Never Went Home — opened at the MIT List Visual Arts Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month. [...]

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