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Section 1: FOUNDATIONS
Click to view slideshow. We continue the publication of the text panels in In Retrospect: 40 Years of the National Gallery of Jamaica, with the text panel for the first section of the exhibition, which...
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In Retrospect – Section 2: SEMINAL EXHIBITIONS
Click to view slideshow. Here is the second sectional text panel from the In Retrospect: 4o Years of the National Gallery of Jamaica exhibition: In the years following its establishment, the National...
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In Retrospect: Section 3 – JAMAICAN ART 1922-1982
Click to view slideshow. Here is the third sectional text panel in the In Retrospect: 40 Years of the National Gallery of Jamaica exhibition, which continues until November 15. The Jamaican Art...
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Saturday Art Time Resumes on September 20
The National Gallery of Jamaica is delighted to announce the resumption of its innovative child art programme, Saturday Art Time, on Saturday September 20, 2014. The programme, which has been active...
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In Retrospect – Section 4: ALTERNATE TRAJECTORIES
Eugene Hyde – Colonization II (1960, Collection: NGJ) Here is the fourth major text panel from the present In Retrospect: 40 Years of the National Gallery of Jamaica exhibition, along with the more...
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Last Sundays: September 28, 2014, featuring in Retrospect and Barre None
The National Gallery’s Last Sundays programme for September 2014 is scheduled for Sunday, September 28, from 11 am to 4 pm, and will feature the In Retrospect: 40 Years of the National Gallery of...
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In Retrospect – Section 5: NEW ROUTES
Click to view slideshow. Here is the fifth major text panel in the In Retrospect: 40 Years of the National Gallery of Jamaica exhibition, which continues until November 15: This section explores how...
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In Retrospect – Section 6: MAJOR DONATIONS
Click to view slideshow. Here is the final sectional panel from the ‘In Retrospect: 40 Years of the National Gallery of Jamaica‘ exhibition. The exhibition continues until November 15, 2014. The...
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National Gallery West Premieres ‘The Price of Memory’ in Montego Bay
The Montego Bay Cultural Centre and National Gallery West are pleased to present the Montego Bay premiere of the documentary ‘The Price of Memory,’ a documentary film by Karen Marks Mafundikwa, on...
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JAMAICA BIENNIAL 2014 – bulletin # 1
Shoshanna Weinberger – Collection of Strangefruit – on view in the 2012 Biennial Work on the re-branded and re-conceptualized Jamaica Biennial, formerly the National Biennial, is progressing well and...
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Last Sundays, October 26, 2014, featuring In Retrospect Exhibition and...
The National Gallery’s Last Sundays programme for October 2014 is scheduled for Sunday, October 26, from 11 am to 4 pm, and will feature the In Retrospect: 40 Years of the National Gallery of Jamaica...
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Phillip Thomas – Bronze Musgrave Medal
Phillip Thomas – The N-Train (2008) On October 22, three Jamaican artists were awarded Musgrave Medals by the Institute of Jamaica: Petrona Morrison (Gold), Jasmine Thomas-Girvan (Silver) and Phillip...
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Silver Musgrave Medal – Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan – Dreaming Backwards, mixed media, size irregular – detail Here is the second citation from this year’s Musgrave Awards, this time regarding Jasmine Thomas-Girvan‘s Silver...
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Gold Musgrave Medal – Petrona Morrison
Petrona Morrison – Reality/Representation (2004), detail of installation Here is the third and final of the citations for this year’s Musgrave Medals in Art, for Petrona Morrison who was awarded the...
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Jamaica Biennial 2014 – Bulletin # 2: Renee Cox, Richard Mark Rawlins
Renee Cox – From the Sacred Geometry series (2014) Work on the Jamaica Biennial 2014 continues apace and the selection of the juried section of the Biennial was completed on October 20. Judges Diana...
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Jamaica Biennial 2014 – Meet the Team!
Click to view slideshow. The Jamaica Biennial 2014 is managed by a small but hardworking team, that consists mainly of permanent NGJ staff but also includes special project staff and a varied corps of...
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Jamaica Biennial 2014 – Bulletin # 3: Sheena Rose, James Cooper
Click to view slideshow. As we wrote in earlier posts, a special and new feature of the Jamaica Biennial 2014 is that we invited six international artists to participate with special projects. Here is...
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What is a Biennial? Part I – The Matter of Origins
We are pleased to present the first of this two-part contribution by writer and curator Nicole Smythe-Johnson, who has joined the Jamaica Biennial 2014 as project manager: On the occasion of the NGJ’s...
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What is a Biennial? Part II – Where do we go?
Installation view at the National Biennial 2012, NGJ – central galleries Here is part two of project manager Nicole Smythe-Johnson‘s reflection on the background to the Jamaica Biennial 2014: The story...
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Jamaica Biennial – Bulletin # 4: Blue Curry, Gilles Elie-dit-Cosaque
Blue Curry – PARADISE.jpg, mock-up of installation on Port Royal Street A special and new feature of the Jamaica Biennial 2014 is that we invited six international artists to participate with special...
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