Exhibition | Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now
Installation view of Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism, and Change at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing Hew Locke’s Armada, 2017–19 (Photo by David Parry for the Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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Now on view at the RA:
Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism, and Change
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 3 February — 28 April 2024
Curated by Dorothy Price with Cora Gilroy-Ware and Esther Chadwick
J.M.W. Turner and Ellen Gallagher. Joshua Reynolds and Yinka Shonibare. John Singleton Copley and Hew Locke. Past and present collide in one powerful exhibition.
This spring, we bring together over 100 major contemporary and historical works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition, and colonialism—and how it may help set a course for the future. Artworks by leading contemporary British artists of the African, Caribbean, and South Asian diasporas, including Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling, and Mohini Chandra will be on display alongside works by artists from the past 250 years including Joshua Reynolds, J.M.W.Turner, and John Singleton Copley—creating connections across time which explore questions of power, representation, and history. Experience a powerful exploration of art from 1768 to now. Featuring a room of life-sized cut-out painted figures by Lubaina Himid, an immersive video installation by Isaac Julien, a giant flotilla of model boats by Hew Locke, and a major new sculpture in the Courtyard by Tavares Strachan. Plus, powerful paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings, and prints by El Anatsui, Barbara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, John Akomfrah, and Betye Saar. Informed by our ongoing research of the RA and its colonial past, this exhibition engages around 50 artists connected to the RA to explore themes of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity, and belonging.
More information is available here»
Dorothy Price, Alayo Akinkugbe, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Sarah Lea, and Rose Thompson, Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism, and Change (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2024), 208 pages, 978-1912520992, £25 / $35.
Curatorial Workshop | Inside Drawings
From ArtHist.net and The Menil Collection:
Inside Drawings: A Workshop on the Materiality of Unique Works on Paper
The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, 3–7 June 2024
Applications due by 22 March 2024
The Menil Drawing Institute at the Menil Collection in Houston is dedicated to the study and display of drawing, with a focus on scholarship and raising public appreciation of the medium—from early drawings to modern and contemporary works. Inside Drawings: A Workshop on the Materiality of Unique Works on Paper will address the physical components of drawing practices in a focused manner, intended to give curators of drawing collections a broader understanding of unique works on paper for the purpose of better defining, researching, and interpreting drawings.
Fully funded by the Getty Foundation through their Paper Project initiative, this weeklong workshop will utilize the collection and staff of the Menil, involving outside experts in the fields of paper conservation, papermaking history, materials study, conservation imaging and science, and curation of drawings. There will be hands-on opportunities to deepen understanding of materials, as well as visits to exhibitions, collections, and an artist’s studio. Sixteen selected participants will have all expenses paid. Ideal participants will be early to mid‐career curators, with up to fifteen years of experience, who work directly with a collection of drawings. The Menil Drawing Institute seeks to assemble an international cohort of colleagues to participate in this workshop and encourages international applicants.
More information is available here.
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