Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Aviation Launches "The Islands of The Bahamas" Mobile App To Help Vacation Planning

The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism & Aviation’s new, free mobile app provides an easy to use resource and tool for consumers planning a visit to The Islands Of The Bahamas...

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Bahamian Project Photographers photograph the team behind the iconic Elbow Reef Lighthouse.

After a lengthy delay due to the pandemic, Bahamian Project photographers are back to capturing the iconic images that have made the Bahamian Project the most significant art & culture project in Bahamian history.

The exciting third phase of the long-running project officially commenced at the end of last year when two of The Bahamas' most experienced and respected photographic artists travelle...

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Small Art Auction House presents: A Live Art

Friday 13th July 2012  6:30 PM

Small Art Auction House presents:
A Live Art
Auction Event
Friday, 13 July 2012
At 6:30pm
The Bahamas
Historical Society
Shirley Street and
Elizabeth Avenue

Nassau's art event of the year, The Small Art Auction House is a one-night only live auction with over 70 participating artists.

The Small Art Auction House is designed to be a fun take on the traditional auction house and will b...

What's New in the Islands of the Bahamas this December

The weather may be cooling down in the U.S., but The Bahamas is heating up this winter. With numerous awards under its belt, The Bahamas is top-of-mind as people around the world set their 2020 travel plans. From continued reopenings on Grand Bahama Island, to a new craft cocktail bar in Nassau to exciting cultural events such as the vibrant celebration of Junkanoo, there is no better time than no...

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A Live Art Auction Event

Friday 13th July 2012  6:30 PM

Small Art Auction House presents:
A Live Art Auction Event
Friday, 13 July 2012
At 6:30pm
The Bahamas
Historical Society
Shirley Street and
Elizabeth Avenue

Nassau's art event of the year, The Small Art Auction House is a one-night only live auction with over 70 participating artists.

The Small Art Auction House is designed to be a fun take on the traditional auction house and will be...

The World's Best 50 Best Beaches?

Welcome to the most definitive list of beaches ever assembled ? a diverse collection of off-the-beaten-path slices of paradise from every hidden corner of our planet...

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From the collection

"On the Way to Market" (ca. 1877-78) by Jacob Frank Coonley, looks to be a work in progress, an experiment, with boxes in the foreground and a window decidedly within the frame of the shot. Ordinarily, a background so carefully constructed with thatch palms and painted fabric reminiscent of crashing ocean waves or rolling clouds in the sky would have been cropped just-so to eliminate the packing b...

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Finding home

A lonely husk of a seed floats across the oceans, from either India or Southeast Asia- we aren't quite sure which-and finds itself in various locales across that lateral band of the planet we call the tropics. This foreign species found itself here, rooted itself, and has become for us an integral part of the way we view our landscape as Bahamians, as a Caribbean nation, and as a "tropical paradis...

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Creating Thinking Spaces

The University of The Bahamas and the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas have created an open space for group discussion that allows students to benefit from the offering of both spaces. This relationship allows culture to truly be highlighted. As much as we talk about culture, we often disconnect our experiences from talk. These lectures are designed to promote thought and unshackle minds blinke...

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February's artwork of the month

The Bahamas has been a tourist location far longer than we have been independent - not hard, of course, with less than half a century of self-rule under our belt. So it makes sense that understanding ourselves and our national and cultural identity is quite difficult. The anxieties with trudging our way out of the muddled mix of British and African influence, the power of tourism in shaping our im...

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