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Cover by Pasko Merisier for the latest issue of  The   Caribbean Writer. The Caribbean Writer has published its 25th Anniversary issue, a bi-lingual edition dedicated to Haiti.  The 640-page edition features 70 pages of poetry from Caribbean poets including Kamau Brathwaite, the talented Jennifer Rahim, Ernest Pepin and Sonia Sanchez. There is also a section on prose, as well as a section on Haitian art, and interviews with novelist Earl Lovelace (who recently won the 2011 Caribbean Literary Prize and is interviewed by Alake Pilgrim) and Elizabeth Nunez. Contributions from Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming, Edwidge Danticat, Merle Hodge and are also featured. One of my favorite pieces in the edition is 'Haiti' by Jennifer Rahim. The poem uses the problem of language as a starting point to debate the place of Haiti in modern society. Just as language reveals a development long in train before current idioms, Haiti's fate is tied to a specific historical context. For those of you who

FILM REVIEW:  Dark Tales From Paradise THE CHALLENGES of making a competent film locally cannot be underestimated. Film-makers may have problems with technical issues, with funding and with accessing markets, even their own. Additionally, in a country where cinema is tied to notions of watching other societies on screen (our idea of “film” is tied to the US and European fare which is sold to us), seeing ourselves depicted on-screen, and inevitably simplified, for the purpose of “entertainment” can trigger complex reactions.  But these are all challenges which a group of three film-makers have embraced with some boldness. The tag-line for  Dark Tales from Paradise , which screened this month at the Harvard Club St James at a TT Entertainment Company/ TT Film Company event, is “3 Dark Tales, 2 Beautiful Islands, 1 Kind of Film”. It is a provocative series of short films, assembled together in one feature “grind-house” style. In Ryan C Khan’s ‘Midnight Affair’, an American scholar visits

Photo by Christopher Cozier.  Surinamese artist Dhiradj Ramsamoedj is currently in residence at Alice Yard, as part of its fifth anniversary programme. FROM Alice Yard: On  Saturday 3 September , at  9.30 am , Ramsamoedj will present and discuss this work during an informal gathering at Alice Yard. All are invited to join in over a cup of coffee. This will also be an opportunity to meet our third anniversary artist-in-residence, Jamaican  Charles Campbell . About the artist: Dhiradj Ramsamoedj is based in Paramaribo, where he graduated from the Nola Hatterman Art Academy in 2004. His work has been shown in two solo exhibitions, most recently  Ordinary People Reloaded  (2010) at the Readytex Gallery in Paramaribo; and in group exhibitions in Suriname, the Netherlands, and the United States, notably  Paramaribo SPAN  (2010) and  Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions  at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC (2011).  SEE more here .

Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art... The Martin Gropius Bau to Feature a Thousand Years of Polish-German Art and History The Library of Congress Displays "New Comic Art Acquisitions" "In the Beginning Was the Word" ~ Medieval Gospel Illuminations at the Getty Museum The New Ida Illuster Gallery To Show Exhibition of Original Drawings by Felix Merkitat The Lentos Museum of Modern Art Shows "Ralo Mayer - Obviously a Major Malfunction" The Asheville Art Museum Explores the " The Elemental Arts " The fordPROJECT to Host Japanese Artists in "Reflections" - A Group Exhibition The Amon Carter Museum of American Art Features "The Allure of Paper" Pierre et Gilles Retrospective opens at C/O Berlin the International Forum For Visual Dialogues San Francisco to Celebrate Hundredth Year of Futurist Manifesto Henry Moore's Position at the Forefront of Sculpture &a

Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art... The Martin Gropius Bau to Feature a Thousand Years of Polish-German Art and History The Library of Congress Displays "New Comic Art Acquisitions" "In the Beginning Was the Word" ~ Medieval Gospel Illuminations at the Getty Museum The New Ida Illuster Gallery To Show Exhibition of Original Drawings by Felix Merkitat The Lentos Museum of Modern Art Shows "Ralo Mayer - Obviously a Major Malfunction" The Asheville Art Museum Explores the " The Elemental Arts " The fordPROJECT to Host Japanese Artists in "Reflections" - A Group Exhibition The Amon Carter Museum of American Art Features "The Allure of Paper" Pierre et Gilles Retrospective opens at C/O Berlin the International Forum For Visual Dialogues San Francisco to Celebrate Hundredth Year of Futurist Manifesto Henry Moore's Position at the Forefront of Sculpture &a