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I decided not to read any reviews of the Royal Academy’s show, Entangled Pasts, 1769-now: Art, Colonialism and Change (until 28 April), before I went to see it. I wanted to approach the ...
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now ... the histories it unpicks are entangled with the history of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) itself, since its foundation in 1768 by a group of 34 British, Irish ...
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 ...
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 ...
That sequence of events was also the inspiration for “Entangled Pasts.” Price, an art history professor at the Courtauld Institute in London, said that when the Royal Academy approached her ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
“Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change” is on view at the Royal Academy of Arts in London through April 28.