Caribbean Art

Competing Visions of the Caribbean

When we look at art, it is looking back at us. More than this, it is reflecting who we are and who we would like to be -- and who we think that other people are. The current exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World provides a complex view of the people of the Caribbean and, just as importantly, a view of these peoples as they have spread across the world in their own historic and cultural diaspora, taking with them their unique experiences and outlooks even as they became the subject of fascination to other people. The people of the Caribbean, whether looked at from the outside when they remained at home in the islands or looked at by new neighbors when they had relocated abroad, have served as a mechanism for people to understand their place in the world.

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