Bad man movies in the street, on screen
The latest installment of a consistent hit movie series is currently being shown on the Palace Amusement circuit and on 11 October the almost every…
Big screen, little screen review
Hi readers, welcome to Jamaica Monitor’s first episode in what we pray will be a regular feature in the entertainment read of this space. It…
‘Jamaica, Jamaica’ and the Jamaican Curatorial Imagination – Part 2
In this second of a two-part article on Jamaica, Jamaica, which has just reopened at the National Gallery of Jamaica, we take a closer look…
‘Jamaica, Jamaica’ and the Jamaican Curatorial Imagination – Part 1
The National Gallery of Jamaica has finally announced its reopening, on 5 October after having been closed to the public since 14 March 2020, because…
The COVID-19 era and audience size
For a few years before COVID-19 put mass in-person events on pause, I consistently attended one day of Jamaica’s national athletics trials. There I was…
Memoir: William “Woody” Joseph (1919-1998)
When I first met the self-taught Jamaican wood-sculptor William Joseph in the mid-1980s, he was living in a bamboo shack near the river in Stony…
Le Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Part 2
Last week, we looked at the early history of Le Centre d’Art, an influential Haitian art organization which was established in 1944. Its building, a…
The Sha’Carri Richardson, LA Lewis strategies and Jamaican music
Sha’Carri Richardson came last in the women’s 100 metre race at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, in August. However, based on the US press…
Le Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Part 1
Le Centre d’Art is among the oldest surviving cultural organizations in the Caribbean and serves as a gallery and museum, an art school, a site…
Kapo and the Father of Spirulina
Sometime in 2018, I came across a lengthy but most interesting Wikipedia entry on Christopher Hills, an English expatriate commodities trader, one time politician, art…