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The Ministry of Culture salutes the memory of Mireille Pérodin Jérôme, critic, gallery owner, exhibition curator, teacher and well-known figure in the Haitian artistic and cultural community...

Novelist and poet Evelyne Trouillot comes from a prominent Port-au-Prince family of writers and intellectuals. Novelist Edwidge Danticat queried the…

In order to promote the practice of literary criticism, the Ministry of Culture is organizing a major criticism competition for young Haitians aged 17 to 25...

As a retrospective of his work opens at the Serpentine, we speak to the legendary artist about confronting the spectre of colonialism from the 1950s until the present day

,” Hervé Télémaque offers “One artist’s improvisation on another’s.” Haitian-born painter Hervé Télémaque is based in Paris, France. The war of rum and gin      From Pétion-Ville a little road runs toward Port-au-Prince and the airport. Near a puddle there, Jacob Lawrence drew an arrow pointing to New York. “If it is’nt love.” Jean-Michel Basquiat walks alone, wearing an elegant suit and bare, painful feet. An optimist for sure! In fact a “foolish optimist,”...

One artist’s improvisation on another’s. The text below is excerpted from the MoMA publication New York Times as one of the Best Art Books of 2019 and by ARTNews as one of the Best Art Books of the Decade, Among Others is the first substantial exploration of a major museum’s uneven historical relationship with Black artists, Black audiences, and the broader subject of racial Blackness. For the next few months, we will be featuring selected excerpts, beginning with Hervé Télé...