5/31/19
Tell me a story
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Truth is just another story. — Marlon James THE DEFINITIVE article in the title of David Subran's exhibition gives...
3/10/19
Reading Kafka in Port of Spain*
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By Andre Bagoo Letters to K , by Anu Lakhan (Argotiers Press / toof press, Port of Spain, 2018) Franz Kafka in 1906. SOM...
8/19/18
Native Son
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The great books of VS Naipaul Photo via Reuters HE WROTE dozens of books, yet, in a sense, VS Naipaul spent a lifetime writing only ...
5/29/18
FILM REVIEW: Moving parts
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Valerie Tian in Moving Parts Moving Parts tells a story not often told. It seeks to give audiences a glimpse of life from the perspe...
5/11/18
Paint the town blue
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LIKE THE words in this sentence, the objects in Shane Mohammed's collages build on one another. Individually, each object has ...
5/1/18
'Listen, I am writing for the people'
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Poet Laureate Paul Keens-Douglas Those were the days of Black Power and that’s when The Last Poets and the black poets were all stre...
4/30/18
Poet’s words dazzle in daughter’s new film
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By Andre Bagoo FATHER-daughter relations, the politics of being an artist, and poetry of breath-taking power converge in Unfinished...
What a drawing can do
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WENDY NANAN has given us an exhibition of drawings, but what does it mean to have an exhibition of drawings in a world where digital ph...
6/18/17
A poem for Asami
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Trinidad is a beautiful but troubled country. What's the role of the poet here? Asami Nagakiya. Illustration by Christopher Lou-...
5/21/17
BOOK REVIEW: Travels with a Husband
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Rex Dixon, Toco Moods, acrylic and collage on paper, 2010. Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from...
5/20/17
Dalton Narine pens an open letter on Mervyn Taylor
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Ah, Mr. Taylor, whenever I read a new book of your poems, why do you treat me as if I had plundered your pockets of small change? There’s...
5/14/17
PODCAST // Ghosts come alive at UWI art show - w. Melanie Archer
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Melanie Archer inspects work by Maria Diaz at the National Museum. Photo by Andre Bagoo. In this PLEASURE PODCAST // I'm joined...
4/15/17
FILM REVIEW: Looking back at 'Poetry is an Island'
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Derek Walcott in a still from Ida Does final version of her 2013 documentary IN 2013, I saw an earlier version of Ida Does' do...
4/7/17
PODCAST // The Things We Keep - with Marsha Pearce
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In this PLEASURE PODCAST // I’m joined by art critic and lecturer Dr Marsha Pearce as we take a walk through The Things We Keep an exh...
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