I wasn't sure what to expect from Radical Landscapes, but it went beyond my expectations. As usual, Tate Liverpool has developed a thought-provoking and in-depth exhibition on this subject. It's a massive archive and tribute to many activists and artists, such as the...
Theaster Gates' The Black Chapel will be the 21st Serpentine Pavilion. The Chicago-based artist, along with the architectural support of Adjaye Associates, will open to the public on Friday, 10 June 2022. The Pavilion's design alludes to the performative and...
Mix and match, mashup, sample, collage, combine, hybridisation, syncretisation. Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists. Creolisation refers to the mixing of cultural influences and is a...
Life Between Islands is a landmark exhibition at Tate Britain exploring the extraordinary breadth of Caribbean-British art over four generations. It will be the first time a major national museum has told this story in-depth, showcasing 70 years of culture,...
In the beginning, there was clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates' 'A Clay Sermon', a film combining music, images, and words to paint a picture of the limitless potential of clay and working with Clay. No wonder the Judeo-Christian scriptures view...
The Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid CBE has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2021 by the Government Art Collection (GAC). The new work was unveiled at No 11 Downing Street today by Julia Lopez MP, Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture,...
When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, one of its key aims was to establish an annual exhibition open to all artists ‘of merit’ (as long, one might add, that they were white, male and mostly middle class). Held every year since the Summer Exhibition is the...
The former BBC director-general Lord Hall has resigned as Chairman of the National Gallery following an inquiry into Martin Bashir's manipulated 1996 Panorama interview with Princess Diana. Lord Hall was the director of BBC news when Bashir used false records knocked...
There are three keys to the work of Arthur Jafa. The first is Black potention, an awareness that for Jafa derives from the act of cutting and pasting in collage. Since childhood, Jafa has cut pictures out of books and magazines, pasting them into new contexts in his...