I  received this news of one of the last of the "Old Masters" of Haitian art, Seymour Bottex (courtesy of Erve Bottex).  Rest in peace.

I've just returned from a visit to Peru.  Eleven days is not much time for a country the size of Peru, but it allowed me a few days in Lima - visiting markets, museums and some artists' studios, and an excursion to Cusco and the Sacred Valley, including Machu Picchu.  As usual, I have more photos than I have sense - or at least the time to make sense of them!  But I will put some groups of photos online as time permits.

I will be traveling to Peru over the next two weeks.  The gallery will be open for its usual hours, and we will be monitoring emails and online orders.  But we will not be shipping out again before May 2nd.  My apologies for any inconvenience.
Tony

Opening tomorrow at the Textile Museum in Washington DC:  “Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora”.  The exhibit includes works on the theme of migration by a number of contemporary artists, including William Adjété Wilson.

Listening to President Obama's speech from the Gran Teatro in Havana, and watching clips of his visit there, is a bittersweet pleasure.  I am not naive about the Cuban government, but I am excited to hear our president say "I have come here to bury the last remnants of the cold war in the Americas."  I am excited for the artists and others that I met on my visits to Cuba in 2000, and 2001 and 2003.  I wish that my friend José Montebravo, who I last saw in Cienfuegos in 2003, was here to see this.