‘The Time is Always Now': Black artists shine at London's National Portrait Gallery's latest show
A new exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, titled "The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," brings together the work of 22 contemporary Black artists from the UK and the US who are taking the art world by storm. Curator Ekow Eshun says the show is an invitation to consider what "Black experience, Black lived experience, Black identity and being, and presence, and history" looks like. Alongside a new sculptural work create especially for the National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition includes works displayed in the UK for the first time, as well as paintings rarely...