Art Bytes
Starting July 9, the National Gallery of Jamaica will expand opening hours from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. This means that visitors may view the Gallery's permanent exhibitions that include the Edna Manley, A.D. Scott, Dunkley and Kapo galleries, even if there is no current exhibition.
 Jamaican Herb Robinson is one of 14 photographers in the Whitney Museum’s exhibition, Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop. The show chronicles the early work o |
 Camille Chedda has won a Stay Home Artist Residency, a five-month program that supports 24 cultural practitioners, artists and creative entrepreneurs. |
 The Windrush generation is in vogue again. Now a walkway on the Tilbury Bridge that they used on arrival in the UK, has been turned into an art installation to honour them. |
 Unbroken, the docu-film based on amputee Laron Williamson’s attempt to qualify for the Jamaican Paralympic team, won Best Documentary Short Film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. |
 To commemorate the Windrush generation, Hackney will unveil two sculptures next year. |
 London-born fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner’s Jamaican roots were on full-display during Highsnobiety’s ‘Not In Paris’ exhibit. |