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Cuban-born Michel Pérez Pollo’s solo exhibition, “Bolero,” can be on view from April 4 to Might 3, 2025, at Timothy Taylor Gallery (74 Leonard Avenue, New York, New York). The opening reception takes place on April 4, from 6:00 to eight:00pm (EST). Description: Timothy Taylor is happy to current Bolero, an exhibition of latest work by Cuban-born, Madrid-based painter Michel Pérez Pollo on the gallery’s New York location. Bolero will characteristic 9 large-scale work of abstracted glyph-like kinds in wealthy, earthen hues. That is Pérez Pollo’s first solo exhibition in New York and his second with the gallery. This exhibition attracts its title from the…
Esther Whitfield’s A New No-Man’s-Land: Writing and Artwork at Guantánamo, Cuba was revealed by the College of Pittsburgh Press in 2024. Listed below are excerpts from a complete assessment by Jacqueline Loss (College of Connecticut). To entry the complete assessment, go to NACLA. Esther Whitfield’s new guide, A New No-Man’s-Land: Writing and Artwork at Guantánamo, Cuba, is profoundly poetic and ethically resonant. The work opens with an uncommon expression of gratitude for “iguanas, cats, banana rats, hummingbirds, the sea, and woodpeckers” by Mansoor Adayfi, a author, advocate, and former detainee who spent 14 years imprisoned on the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. By…
Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, “otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua” [altre montagne, alla deriva sotto le onde; other mountains, adrift beneath the waves] is an exhibition that includes work by Nadia Huggins and Tessa Mars, together with site-specific installations and large-scale work created for areas on the former church of San Lorenzo, in Venice, Italy. This exhibition can be on view from April 5 to November 2, 2025. Description: For the 2025 season at Ocean Area in Venice, TBA21–Academy presents the exhibition “otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua [other mountains, adrift beneath the…
Ex-player lashes CWI over harassment claims Thu, Mar 27, ’25 Dr Armstrong, now a UK-trained sports activities psychologist, talking on the Mason and Visitor cricket radio present on the Voice of Barbados Tuesday mentioned: “I felt the statement was very vague. It really did not hint to any form of remorse.” And he or she posed inquiries to CWI about its dealing with of the 2020 matter. “Is there an appointed safeguarding officer for Cricket West Indies? Is there an appointed safeguarding officer for WIPA? If there’s, I need to know if when the report was submitted to CWI,…
Nkgopoleng Moloi interviewed artist Remy Jungerman (1959, Suriname) for ArtThrob (25 March 2025). Listed here are the excerpts; to entry the complete interview, go to ArtThrob. We reached out to artists whose work we admire and requested them about their creative journeys, present initiatives and the concepts that drive their observe. On this collection, we highlight the distinctive approaches of latest artists, providing them a platform to share insights into their creative course of, ongoing work, and the parameters that outline their observe. Remy Jungerman (1959) lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He attended the Academy for Greater…
Simón Rodríguez (NACLA) writes concerning the persistence of Afro-Dominican tradition, regardless of “the ongoing criminalization and racist persecution of African tradition, from the criminalization of Vodou to restrictions against Gagá.” Learn the entire article and see extra images at NACLA. “Are these children taught about God? Are they taught the Bible, do they believe God?” On Might 21, 2024, Iván Ruiz, host of the Noon Present, one of many most-watched TV packages within the Dominican Republic, requested these inquiries to the kids’s dance group of the Fundación Cultural Herencia Viva de Mata de los Indios, who had meant to carry out…
Our warmest congratulations to The Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) crew and co-editors in chief Michael Bucknor and Lisa Outar for receiving the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award—such a well-deserved recognition! Description (from Bocas Lit Fest): The recipient of the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award is The Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL), first printed in 1986, in recognition of its indelible function as essentially the most important scholarly journal devoted to the sphere of Caribbean literature — an important discussion board for critic and artistic debate, and an archive of analysis and thought together with virtually each scholar of…
The white-sand seashores. The toes-in-the-sand bars. The fresh-caught fish and the merengue. Punta Cana is already the middle of the most-visited vacation spot in the entire Caribbean, and now the Dominican Republic’s crown jewel is getting one other enormous enhance from American Airways. The airline has introduced plans to kick off 4 new routes from US cities to Punta Cana’s well-known thatched-roof airport, with all 4 nonstop flights beginning on Dec. 6, in time for the height winter season. American is including once-weekly flights from Indianapolis, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Raleigh-Durham, a spokesperson for the airline confirmed to Caribbean Culinary Tours. …
No area on the planet has a extra various or dynamic culinary continuum than the Caribbean. Nearly each delicacies on earth is represented, usually in splendidly, intoxicatingly fused expressions. Throughout the breadth of the Caribbean Basin, you can find an unmatched gastronomic mosaic. And should you’ve been to the area lately, you understand that Caribbean meals is having its second, deservedly carving out a distinguished place as a serious world foodie vacation spot. Since we first began the 50 Greatest Eating places within the Caribbean again in 2013, we’ve seen the exceptional rise of Caribbean meals and a really superb…
Protected worldwide home windows on WCA wishlist for ‘sustainable future’ of cricket Wed, Mar 26, ’25 Protected home windows for worldwide cricket, a extra equitable income distribution system that helps development and aggressive steadiness, higher regulation of participant actions throughout T20 leagues, and an ICC as a world governing physique and never a members’ membership; these are the headline suggestions from a complete game-wide assessment by the World Cricketers’ Affiliation (WCA) to repair what it has known as the “broken global structure” of cricket. A few of the suggestions symbolize radical shifts to the present ecosystem, equivalent to…