Art historian Erica Moiah James will discuss the art of the Caribbean at an upcoming, free lecture at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

James’s lecture is drawn from preliminary research for a new book entitled Historicizing the Global in Caribbean Art and Visual Culture. The book offers a new approach to the concepts of globalization and global culture in the Americas through a series of works created over a 500-year span on the island of Hispaniola.

The lecture – titled Object, Image and the Living Archive: Historicizing the Global in Caribbean Art – begins at 7:00 pm on March 26 in the Art Museum’s Farrell Auditorium. The lecture is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are in-person at the Museum’s Information Centers or through MetroTix, which charges a service fee of $3 per ticket.

James is an assistant professor of art history and African-American studies at Yale University. Before arriving…