Help City Hall celebrate Black culture in London
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215 Londoners have responded | 28/11/2022 - 03/09/2023
Black curations in theatres, museums and galleries
Take a look at Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show at the Brooklyn Museum. Here is an example of breaking through (in their instance) the male hegemony of art criticism. It’s radical and daring - but raises consciousness!
Apply the same principle to curating exhibitions in London’s galleries and museums. Reframe art in the light of Windrush, slavery, racial and economic inequalities.
Help people to understand that our ways of seeing culture are largely from a white privileged perspective - let’s take our ‘classical’ collections and reframe them in the light of Empire and colonialism.
This does not have to be decisive - it can be educational for all. Why not offer touring (virtual) exhibitions to our schools?
Suggested by Kindness58
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Community Member 1 year agoSince I wrote this please check out the reopened National Portrait Gallery where a first, overdue, and small bit significant step has been taken in recognising black history and presence in our historical national portraiture! More please -...
Show full commentSince I wrote this please check out the reopened National Portrait Gallery where a first, overdue, and small bit significant step has been taken in recognising black history and presence in our historical national portraiture! More please - the NPG curation is an eye-opener.
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