Arts on Sunday

Dessalines
Dessalines

Derek Walcott, the dramatist

His victory over a first class field in the 2010 TS Eliot Poetry Prize last month elevated Derek Walcott yet higher in world literature and placed him yet again under the international spotlight. 

A school of experimentation

(Poui, Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, No: XI, December 2010; eds Mark McWatt, Jane Bryce, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Mark Jason Welch, Dept.

Poui X

A school of experimentation

(Poui, Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, No: XI, December 2010; eds Mark McWatt, Jane Bryce, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Mark Jason Welch, Dept.

Derek Walcott

‘A very great poet’

It was announced on January 24 in London that Caribbean poet Derek Walcott had won the TS Eliot Poetry Prize 2010 for his latest collection White Egrets. 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time and change

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. 

 A (not the) Bosendorfer piano

Culture and the disappearing piano

A recent debate over a political issue took place in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on January 12 that happens to raise some serious questions about our attitudes to our indigenous culture and culture in the Caribbean generally. 

A scene from Watch De Ride revival last year (Stabroek News file photo)

A moralistic tale?

The popular play Watch De Ride by Guyanese playwright Ronald Hollingsworth is a drama arising out of an act of carpe diem. 

For Auld Lang Syne…

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?

Clement Clarke Moore

Christmas poems

Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, Jerusalem and that area in the Middle East known as the Holy Land, is now one of the most intense trouble-spots of tension, war and conflict in the world. 

Sadeek and Guyanese drama

(Continued from last week) Tiwari and Yarde were strong leads in Neaz Subhan’s production of Sheik Sadeek’s Black Bush, with the ability to capture both situation and characters convincingly. 

Neaz Subhan (SN file photo)

Sadeek and Guyanese drama

It is very significant to note that in his continuing programme of theatrical productions to highlight Indian culture in Guyana, director Neaz Subhan, on behalf of the Indian Arrival Committee, produced three plays by Sheik Sadeek. 

The rise of Amerindian art

Conclusion Interestingly, although Oswald Hussein is not an intuitive artist, this kind of atavistic spirituality is what lies behind the striking force of his work. 

‘The Hunter’ by Anil Roberts

The rise of Amerindian art

Continued from last week The single event responsible for the world really taking notice of Amerindian art as a major subject and its rise to its present power was the exhibition of six men identifying themselves as ‘Lokono Artists’ at the Venezuelan Cultural Centre in 1998. 

Why have there been no great women artists?

By Akima McPherson Stemming from Nochlin’s article, themed exhibitions showing work of previously neg-lected groups within the art community became staple: Black American artists, His-panic American artists, Native American artists, etc, and numerous books were written dedicated to the re-inclusion of women in the Western art narrative. 

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