Reframing Blackness: What’s Black about history of art?

Black figures are an integral part of our collective art history. Founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt, Alayo Akinkugbe looks closely at the presentation of Black figures in Western art, bringing these figures to the foreground.

In her debut book, 'Reframing Blackness', Alayo asks, 'What’s Black about history of art'?'. And it begins with a visit to the National Gallery.

This is a National Gallery Members’ book club event, with time for questions at the end of the discussion. Pick up a copy of Alayo's book from the National Gallery gift shop.

Alayo Akinkugbe is an independent writer and curator. She runs the Instagram platform, @ABlackHistoryOfArt on which she celebrates the contributions of Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers globally and across time. She writes the column Black Gazes for AnOther Magazine. Her first book, Reframing Blackness explores the relationship between Blackness and Western art history.  

A recording of this event will be made available to all ticket holders in the days following the event.

This recording will be available for two week

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