When Great Art Is Off Limits
Sculpture by Antonius Roberts
By: Cathy Davidson, HASTAC
On our wonderful vacation in the Bahamas, where we try to come nearly every year, we spent a day with our friend Krista Thompson, the distinguished art historian of the Caribbean. A professor at Northwestern, originally from the Bahamas and now located here for part of each year, Krista generously took us around to many wonderful art exhibits. We stopped by Popop Studios and saw a number of other “situated” art works, arts built into and responsive to the landscape. None was more arresting, moving, beautiful, and, quite simply, great – in all senses – that the powerful “Genesis” by the noted Bahamian painter and sculptor Antonius Roberts.