Louis’s softly menacing effigy of a Haitian deity posed in a flood of daylight at the Gardner Museum. The handful of steps leading up to its perch are dotted with candles, altar-like; the gothic arch ...

Artist of memorials to family memory and sprits exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, ...

Frankétienne, a renowned writer, painter, actor and musician known as the “father of Haitian letters” has died. He was 88.

“To sit and talk to Frankétienne was to have a lesson in Haitian history and culture and Vodou and art and creativity,” he said. Deibert said the artist “had a really fascinating ...