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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 is among the oldest surviving cultural organizations in the Caribbean and serves as a gallery and museum, an art school, a site…
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…
An obvious consequence of the COVID-19 crisis for the Jamaican entertainment sector has been the movement from the physical to the virtual space. The major…