Lubaina Himid | Naming the Money

Naming the Money by Lubaina Himid RA is a spectacular installation made up of 100 life-size painted cut-out figures.
It is one of 100 major contemporary and historical works on display in 'Entangled Pasts' at the Royal Academy.
The exhibition is 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.
'Entangled Pasts, 1768-now' is on until 28 April 2024.
Find out more and book tickets: www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhib...

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I would love to see installations of Greek, Roman, Persian, Peruvian, Catalonian, Spanish, Indian... slaves in Africa and how they were used there, for example... Modern day slavery today, another example, glossed over by wealthy Africans, Caribbeans, MENAs; who persist in the practice. This is tripe. I hope that the wood was recycled!

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I get the need for this sensitive subject matter to be addressed, but why does the art always have to be so bad?