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The Financial Times1y
Entangled Pasts, Royal Academy review — a triumphant and surprising showcase of black art
The mad feast begins the minute you step into the Royal Academy ... A strength of Entangled Pasts is to ask how this happened, what could change. Marshall redresses art history’s scarcity ...
The Independent1y
The Royal Academy reckons with its history in Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
Three-and-a-half years on, the Royal Academy offers its own ambitious response, putting great (white) British artists of the past such as Joshua ... good of the Black art scene are closely ...
London Evening Standard1y
Entangled Pasts, 1768 - Now at the Royal Academy review: a thoughtful reflection on art's colonial history
A marker of the fierce intelligence of Entangled Pasts is that the curators don’t merely point out the historical stuffiness of the Royal Academy ... and contemporary art in the show which ...
Artnet1y
Black History Foregrounded in New Show at London’s Royal Academy
Works by a Frank Bowling, Kerry James Marshall, and Lubaina Himid are shown alongside historical paintings a documents that reveal the academy's own historically white bias. Installation view of ...
THE WEEK1y
Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – an 'ambitious' and 'well meaning' exhibition
The Royal Academy is no exception ... "most of the great British artists of the past 200 years". Three years on, the RA is presenting the findings of this process in the form of a major new ...
Daily Mail1y
Royal Academy of Arts outs prestigious former member as a slaveowner ahead of its exhibition on colonialism
The American artist is revealed to have had links to slavery in the Royal Academy's (RA) Entangled Pasts exhibition which delves into the art institution's past links to colonialism and the Trans ...
The Daily Telegraph1y
Entangled Pasts, Royal Academy: a ‘historically white institution’ grapples in vain with its colonial past
“Entangled Pasts”? Entangled present, more like. Exploring the “global entanglements” of British art since the institution’s foundation in 1768, the Royal Academy’s new exhibition is ...
Artnet1y
How Tavares Strachan Reimagined Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’
The Royal Academy in London has unveiled ... has been installed in the courtyard as part of “Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change,” a new exhibition that puts the RA ...
Smithsonian Magazine1y
Monumental Sculpture Reimagines ‘The Last Supper’ With Black Historical Figures
“Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change” is on view at the Royal Academy of Arts in London through April 28.
MutualArt.com1y
Francis Harwood
The academic rigor of Entangled Pasts is counterbalanced by the poignant responses by contemporary artists and some astonishingly inspired curating. The Royal Academy of Arts presents Entangled Pasts, ...
The Art Newspaper1y
When Sister Rosetta met Marsha P. Johnson: public art piece in London reimagines Leonardo’s Last Supper
One of London’s most striking public art works has been unveiled in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts ... latest blockbuster exhibition Entangled Pasts 1768-now: Art, Colonialism ...