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That’s when she found the tree,

the dark, crabbed branches

bearing up such speechless bounty,

she knew without being told

this was forbidden. It wasn’t

a question of ownership—

who could lay claim to

such maddening perfection?

[…]

I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land, Rita Dove

Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940 organized by Curator María Elena Ortiz, at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, March 10, 2024 – July 28, 2024.

Centered on the intersection of Caribbean aesthetics, Afrosurrealism, and Afrofuturism, Surrealism and Us explores how Caribbean and Black artists interpreted a modernist movement. Artworks, framed within a pre-existing history of Black resistance and creativity, illustrate how Caribbean and Black artists reinterpreted the European avant-garde for their own purposes.

Kentridge, The Old Gods Have Retired

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William Kentridge, The Old Gods Have Retired, 2022

Photogravure, sugarlift aquatint, direct gravure, drypoint and chine collé with found ledger encyclopedia paper and various other papers with handpainting on Hahnemühle Natural, White, 300gsm. 63 4/5 × 78 7/10 in | 162 × 200 cm. Edition of 20.

Published by Jillian Ross Print and David Krut Projects. Collaborating Master Printer: Jillian Ross.

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Jacqueline Charles and Jay Weaver reports in the Miami Herald.

Investigative Judge Walther Wesser Voltaire, has sent his 122-page indictment, in the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse. He has charged Martine Moïse and nearly 50 others in the assassination conspiracy.

In addition to Martine Moïse, the judge indicted [former Prime Minister Claude] Joseph and ex-Police Chief Léon Charles. Both were in office when Moïse was gunned down inside his home in the middle of the night. They are among 10 former government officials or allies of the president who, according to Voltaire, had “an active participation” in the events leading up to his shocking death.

L’ordonnance [PDF] du juge de l’instruction directement d’une source impliquée dans le dossier.

44 personnes sont arrêtées en Haïti dans le cadre de ce dossier. Des onze suspects se retrouvant devant la justice américaine, cinq ont déjà plaidé coupables. –Widlore Mérancourt et Jérome Wendy Norestyl pour Ayibopost.

The former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, who was police chief when Moïse was killed and now serves as Haiti’s permanent representative to the Organization of the American States, faces the most serious charges: murder; attempted murder; possession and illegal carrying of weapons; conspiracy against the internal security of the state; and criminal association. NPR.