Art & Leisure

Leaving for our first trip to Washington DC in 30 years - this one to visit museums and cultural sites - I grabbed Diana McCaulay's novel Dog-Heart to read on the plane.

Moulded in her, a seed from above

The Liguanea Lodge has for more than 20 years staged an annual Art Auction and Wine & Cheese Party as part of their charitable efforts to provide scholarships and other support to high school and tertiary-level students, residents of children's homes, medical equipment to hospitals, and similar charitable ventures.

"There was always an underlying sadness about my mother ...

Not even the gloomy forecast by the International Monetary Fund for Jamaica's ailing economy or the threat of afternoon showers could stop the crowds from descending on the Liguanea Art Festival on Hope Road in St Andrew last Sunday, ...

The Third Congress of Caribbean Writers came to a climax on the fourth and final day of its activities with the announcement of this year's winner of the 'Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature' to Haitian-born novelist Edwidge...

Football as we play it in Jamaica (also called soccer) is said to be an ancient sport.

Can you believe it?

The deadly metals lay quietly in the still yellow-coloured liquid

In The City of Devi, award-winning author Manil Suri presents an imaginatively hypnotic drama that captures the full gamut of human emotions. It is provocatively existential, pricking our very conscience. It invites reflection and debate on the human potential for altruism and depravity - powerful forces that compete, incessantly in this wrenching work, a work where art imitates life.

"It is a feeling that flows from deep inside," says Professor Du Juemin, classical Chinese painter, calligrapher and a poet, as he held his hands out as if to absorb energy fields floating in the air.

They're the 15 faces being heralded by The Mutual Gallery and Art Centre Ltd as the promising posterity of Jamaican art. This year's ArtFRESH exhibition winners have met the criteria for being creatively authentic and committed to their art careers. Today, nine of them share their thoughts on their pasts, present, and futures in art.