
Jamaica Art Market Review | July 2018
AGORA THIS IS HUGE. From a field of 450 works by 210 artists from 14 countries, curated by five historians* exploring 16th-21st century art of the Afro-Atlantic territories Jamaica's Barrington Watson's (1931-2016) Conversation is chosen for the catalogue cover and promotion imagery. Prepared over three years of research, the exhibition Histórias Afro-Atlânticas [Afro-Atlantic Stories] in an unprecedented collaborative initiative, shows --- in two Brazil venues: the São Pau

Jamaica Art Market Review | June 2018
AGORA We can count on one hand, the number of block and concrete galleries in Jamaica with sustained commercial practice. In the absence of commercial venues, artists no longer produce for gallery shows but for fairs, pop-ups, shared-spaces and collaboratives. While our direct-sales art market culture has long defied the traditional gallery model of artist discovery and promotion, gallerists are exploring new ways of doing business and challenging traditional ideas of how a g