Art Bytes
“I don’t think artists should ever be married because you cannot give to your wife the kind of total devotion she
needs. That goes to your art. Art is my first love, and it’s never going to be any different.”- Barrington Watson for
Caribbean Beat Magazine.
Pictured: Barrington Watson’s “Mother and Child” (1958) from the National Gallery of Jamaica.
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Jamaican photographer Barry Harley is one of 120 winners of the 61st annual Communications Arts magazine photography competition. |
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Google recently created a doodle to honour Jamaican-born British activist Olive Morris's 68th birthday. |
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Jamaican Stuart Robertson is one of 16 artists who contributed to a 245’X17’ Black Lives Matter street mural in Palo Alto, California. |
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Jamaican Environmental Filmmaker Esther Figueroa has curated the first Global Extraction Film Festival that streams online at https://www.caribbeancrea |
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Kingston Creative will open Jamaica’s first Creative Hub in Downtown Kingston on Monday July 27th. |
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Renee Cox is one of nine black artists and cultural leaders the NY Times Style Magazine recently asked for their take on cultivating black audiences and dismantling historically white institutions. |