Khaleb Brooks has been announced as the winner of a prestigious competition to design a Memorial to Victims of Transatlantic Slavery, which will be unveiled in London in 2026. Brooks' creation, The Wake, will be installed at West India Quay in London Docklands, a...
TEFAF Maastricht has cancelled the 2021 edition of their prestigious fair due to the logistical uncertainties of exhibitors. After careful consideration of current global circumstances, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has decided to cancel the in-person...
Pantone 2021 Colours Of The Year X 2 Pantone, the company behind the definitive colour charts, has announced their colour (or as in this year) colours of 2021. PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 are two independent colours that highlight how different...
The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate's involvement in slavery. First off, both Henry Tate and Abram Lyle (his partner) were respectively 12 and 14 when slavery was abolished in 1833. Both were...
Lubaina Himid's significant starting point for her exhibition ' Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money', at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool is sculpture by artist, Edmonia Lewis, depicting the American poet, Longfellow. This bust portrays one of...
The International Slavery Museum in Liverpool has announced its first acquisition following a funding boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2014 to grow collections at the Museum. It is a copper engraving by the famous British caricaturist...
When two employees from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) walked into the National Endowment for the Arts last March, they did not bring any knowledge of the cultural and scholarly work the agency had supported for six decades. What they...
The King’s New Year Honour list for 2026 has been revealed, and for anyone looking for a pulse from the living end of British culture, it makes for oddly bloodless reading. Titles were conferred, sashes pinned, initials added. What is missing is harder to...
November's art diary begins with exhibitions by artists (including Lakwena Maciver, Hannah Rose Thomas, Tuli Mekondjo, and Paul B. Kincaid), about which I've written previously or with which I have worked, and venues with similar connections, mainly with a link to...