Today We Mourn, Tomorrow We Fight - Edwidge Danticat on the 8th anniversary of the Haitian Earthquake
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Sunday, January 14, 2018 - 2:44pm
The eighth anniversary of the catastrophe that befell Haiti on January 12th, 2010 was unfortunately desecrated by the latest vile and racist words of Mr. Trump.
Indigo Arts presents a collection of work by visionary and self-taught artists from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The collection includes work by artists from Burkina Faso, Congo, Cuba, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya and Nigeria.
We just returned from a trip to France. Of many highlights, the one which I have most exhaustively photographed is our visit to La Maison Picassiette, in Chartres.
This news, passed on to us by the Toussaint Louverture Cultural Foundation: With deep sadness we learned Lafortune Felix passed away a few weeks ago in Haiti.
It’s a great loss for the art world in Haiti and abroad.
Hurricane Matthew has now passed through Haiti, and has been wreaking havoc elsewhere. But it is clear that the damage and loss of life in Haiti has been devastating.
"Peru retablo artist lifts the lid on traditional story boxes" - A BBC video tour of Claudio Jimenez Quispé's Studio
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Friday, July 29, 2016 - 12:00am
I was a bit slow in finding out about it, but the BBC has produced a very good video about Peruvian retablo master Claudio Jimenez Quispé and his work. You can watch it at:
