What does it mean for the Royal Academy to stage an exhibition in 2024 that reflects on its role in helping to establish a canon of Western art history within the contexts of British colonialism, empire and enslavement?
The approach here, and in the exhibition, is to bring historic and contemporary works together, the latter unravelling the former in ways that appreciably deepen and enlarge an understanding of Britain's colonial history.
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