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April is National Poetry Month! Check out Da Shop’s curated selection of poetry from across the Pacific Islands, highlighting Pasifika voices.

Kate Taylor (Globe and Mail) reviews “Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now,” which is on view (on loan from the Tate Britain-London) until April 1, 2024, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto, Canada. [Also see previous posts Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art.AGO and Life Between Islands. Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing…

The show organized by the Tate Britain features works from the 1950s to present and is all about representation

The collection recounts the impact of Caribbean art on British culture and art history over the course of 70 years. 

Things to do in Toronto this winter include everything from watching award-winning Broadway shows to ice skating to the tunes of a live DJ.  Whethe...

British soul singer Olivia Dean has delivered one of the best albums of the year with her debut, Messy. She spoke about her writing, playing pool and more.

Sonia Boyce triumphed with a work about the erasure of Black women artists. She greets the trophy with a mix of gratitude and circumspection.

In a major new commission for the Tate museum group in London, the British-Guyanese artist returns to the themes of empire and postcolonial reckoning that have fascinated him throughout his career.

We spoke to British Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo about what fuels her in the studio, and what she admires most in a work of art.

Ivan Michael Blackstock debuts his TRAPLORD show at 180 Strand, a group exhibition highlights sex worker experiences at the ICA, and Guts Gallery embarks on an east London art crawl