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A spectrum of Jewels
The title Spectrum is an easy fit for an exhibition featuring a range of work by eight jewellery designers. Y Art Gallery’s latest show runs the gamut of responses to the show’s overarching...
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UWI certificate show plays it safe
“An essential element of any art is risk,” says acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in an interview for the 99U creative blog. According to him, risk-taking can lead to the creation of something...
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What it’s like to PLAY BAT
What is it like to be a bat? Philosopher Thomas Nagel asked this question in 1974, in his paper, which argued that there is a subjective quality to conscious experience—that there exists something that...
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Creating from memory
Since being given a class assignment to explore a memory, Jamaican emerging artist Kelley-Ann Lindo has been excavating and scrutinizing her bank of experiences.What she remembers is a literal flood of...
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Dreaming with her hands
“We must sleep with eyes open, we must dream with our hands…till the dream engenders in the sleeper’s flank the red wheat-ear of resurrection…we must dream backwards, toward the source, we must row...
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Art of the times: A look back at T&T’s 2016 art scene
What happened in T&T for the year 2016? Was there a prevailing mood? What were the key concerns and points of view? Dutch-American historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon notes: “The arts are an even...
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Doig + Walcott = T&T art alive
Sunday Arts Section art writer Marsha Pearce and books writer Shivanee Ramlochan each gives her impression of the recently published collection of poems and paintings by Derek Walcott and Peter Doig....
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A breath of fresh air
“The art world needs a breath of new air,” said Wesley Kanhai, the 25-year-old instigator and administrator of the new Art 6 Gallery in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.The question of how to support creatives...
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Tomorrow, tomorrow
How do you see T&T? Does a nation forged in fires of hope still hold promise? Richard Mark Rawlins’ latest artwork uses iconography from the orphan Annie musical and the fuel of local politics to...
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