Tag: Tavares Strachan
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Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere
A ship floating on the roof, a giant encyclopaedia of neglected people and things, and busts of James Baldwin, Nina Simone and others fill the New York-based Bahamian artist’s fascinating exploration of black history
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Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
The Royal Academy, founded at the height of the British empire, brings together more than 100 historical and contemporary works – from JMW Turner to Yinka Shonibare – in an attempt to redress its colonialist past
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Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
A museum committed to the art of the American South presents an exhibition that highlights the contributions of postwar and contemporary African-American artists in order to assert their place within mainstream modernist narratives
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Prospect.3: Notes for Now
New Orleans plays host to 58 artists from around the world – including Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, Agus Suwage and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as many less familiar names – for Prospect.3, whose dominant theme is race and identity
