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...