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A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale (2020)
Journal Article
Asquith, W., & Wainwright, L. (2020). A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale. Journal of Curatorial Studies, 9(1), 40-68. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00010_1

In recent years, the sporadic presence of various Caribbean national pavilions at the Venice Biennale – Jamaica (2001), Haiti (2011), Bahamas (2013), Grenada (2015, 2017, 2019), Antigua and Barbuda (2017, 2019), Dominican Republic (2019) – has on eac... Read More about A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale.

The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition (2018)
Journal Article
Asquith, W. (2018). The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Historical Research, 91(253), 528-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12232

© 2018 Institute of Historical Research. This article explores how representatives of the Caribbean’s first postcolonial state undertook the project of displaying Haitian nationhood during the age of empire. It challenges current understandings of Ha... Read More about The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition.