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The Transcendent Spirit of Haitian Contemporary Art

by Valentina Di Liscia November 3, 2018November 5, 2018

PÒTOPRENS is an exhibition about Haitian artists that rebels against stereotypes of Haitian art.

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Interwoven Histories: Exploring Britain and Haiti

by Mark Sheerin May 15, 2014May 14, 2014

BRIGHTON, UK — If the thought of a white artist from Britain making work about race in Haiti causes your hackles to rise, please bear with us. What Leah Gordon has to say about history concerns us all.

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The Many Contradictions of a “Ghetto Biennale”

by Myriam Vanneschi December 27, 2013January 1, 2014

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In 2011, for the second Ghetto Biennale, artist Jason Metcalf hired a Haitian translator to translate the chapter on creolization from Nicholas Bourriaud’s The Radicant into Creole and distributed it throughout Port-au-Prince, the location of the biennale. When I read about that, after the fact, I became interested in visiting.

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