Jean-Ulrick Désert, “Constellations de la Déesse / Ciel au-dessus de Port-au-Prince” (2012) (all photos courtesy the Grand Palais unless otherwise noted) PARIS — Winter has been kind to art lovers in ...

At a National Gallery of Art reception in September, museum director Kaywin Feldman thanked the donors of 15 modern and contemporary works by Haitian artists for their recent “patriotic gift to the ...

Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

When is art “primitive”? A gallerygoer might answer, “Half the time.” Roughly half the contemporary shows in U.S. galleries seem to prove that the exhibiting artists had no formal training at all.

Haitian art has journeyed from Iowa to the walls of Miami’s Little Haiti. Titled “Global Borderless Caribbean XVI: Haiti in the Heartland,” the public art exhibition, is a collaboration of the Little ...

When Haiti makes headlines in the American press, the news is all too often tragic: catastrophic earthquakes in 2010 and 2021, the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the recent takeover of ...