Haitian art is often deeply rooted in spiritual beliefs and the practice of Vodou. (Don't confuse it with the creepy voodoo portrayed in popular culture and scary movies.) It is also has a deep ...

Vodou isn’t solely a religion or an art or a culture. It’s all three and more: a mixture of African religion, Catholicism, Freemasonry and other influences expressed in art, dramatic ritual and ...

Mention voodoo and it immediately conjures images of curses, zombies and other dark magic. Those are images Iveta Pirgova is trying to combat. Pirgova is curator of "Remembering Ginen: Haitian Vodou ...

The religion, the history and the art produced from them feed in and out of each other in fascinating ways which the exhibition’s promotional material presents as a great slab of facts and ideas that ...

Little less than a year ago, Haiti weighed heavily on many people’s minds as the small nation on the island of Hispaniola that suffered a massive earthquake that devastated the capital city of Port-au ...

However, for the people of Haiti, voodoo – or ‘Vodou’ – is a spiritual belief system followed by an estimated 90 per cent of people living in the country. Vodou’s roots lie in West African religions, ...

Marilyn Houlberg yearns to return to Haiti. But political violence there keeps her away, even as Vodou calls her back. Houlberg, a professor of art history and cultural anthropology at the School of ...

A new exhibition of Voodoo art from Haiti evokes the island’s heat and intensity while setting a few records straight. 'Lwa in the Blue Bird' (detail), an example of Voodoo art, by Prospere ...

The often-misunderstood religion is playing a key role as the Caribbean country recovers from the earthquake that devastated it just five years ago. In retrospect, I have a lot of explanations for the ...

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