...Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani This article is a study of several works by Guyanese artist Denis Williams and the exhibitions of these works. Williams (1923–98) was a key figure in the history of artists of the then British Empire who made their way to London in the middle of the twentieth century (Williams...

... to reveal the ways in which racism, the history of slavery, and the legacy of the British Empire are embedded in such practices. For over twenty years, Evans has been exploring recurring motifs that resonate not only with her personal biography as a Lagos-born, London-based artist, but also...

... a trip, or several trips, to Buckingham Palace to collect awards such as (in ascending order of status and importance) Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), or Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British...

.... Notes 1. This high point was just about the half- way point of the British Empire, if it started...

... as if it had been besieged by the version is informed by more references than there might be grains of sand on any one glorious Caribbean beach. African and Caribbean immigration to and integration in the former center of the British Empire and the subsequent development of a Black British middle...

..., this speaks to the dynamics of history itself, the fact that a British empire that once comprised half a billion people now cautiously defends its identity visvis a much smaller entity called Europe makes sense for him precisely be- cause things are not fixed, because there is always an ebb and flow. 28...

... demonstration tours with Cardew in Britain, Europe, and America in 1962, 1963, and 1972. In 1962, Kwali was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and later an honorary doctorate from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. She also received the Nigerian National Merit Award in 1980...

... the idea that South Africans are producing be• cause of their unique position some of the world's most interest• ing cosmopolitan art. Back in Johannesburg, Hou Hanru's "Hong Kong, etc." at the Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, struggled to integrate the hyper-ur• banity of Hong Kong the British...

....10 Despite these external factors, Pressure managed to pay homage to a classic novel about émigrés in the British Empire: The Lonely Londoners (1956) by Samuel Selvon. The story centers on a Trinidadian man who becomes disillusioned by the promises of life in the gray city of London. Ové and Selvon...

... was to happen next.8 to retell the past in a new way, which the moment Their neatly pressed suits were complemented with of arrival in the old world (the “mother country” white breast-pocket handkerchiefs, polished brogue of the British Empire) provided for migrants of my shoes, white starched shirts...

..., and ration in his work firmly situated it within emergent viewed first hand the work of the European masters. Of contemporary British painting of the period, alongside special interest to him were the post-impressionists and the work of the Borough school. the early modernists...

... the topic of repatriation and restitution. This new train is more or less driving neoimperial defenders of the colonialuniversal museums off the symbolic and discursive centerstage. Hollywood, with the 2018 blockbuster film Black Panther, which featured the now famous British Museum scene, joined...

... postcolonial life cannot be neatly clas• ing and steelmaking methods advanced and an essentialist notion of authen• sified as either Yoruba or British, just...

.... Such an analysis in turn ic, and aesthetic project of the legendary British group. sets up the discursive parameters for a close hearing and viewing The critical acclaim that subsequently greeted Handsworth of the visionary project of the Black Audio Film Collective...

... at the Cape of Good Hope en route to India the unique role of photographic portraiture in and Australia.4 In Ethiopia, the first photographer to Ethiopia during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie visit was probably a British Protestant missionary, (1930–1974). Portraits of the emperor and his family...

... by Britain's slow- borhood, including the school that your kids attend• motion withdrawal from its empire east of Suez." ed, and the local hospital where your daughter was Truman imagined that the United Kingdom would born, were dropped from an American or British provide "the military...

... of high jewelry alludes to the global trade in minerals—most specifically, the diamond industry’s spoliation of South Africa’s natural resources, pionered by British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. Special attention is paid to the way Newsome’s subversion of the codes of high jewelry visually and conceptually...

...Elizabeth Robles This article proposes a rereading of the timeline of the British Black Arts Movement, and offers early work by the Pakistan-born British artist, writer, and editor Rasheed Araeen as possible starting points for reading the work of a new generation of artists who emerged...

..., not Barbados was the first colony in the New World only in the New World but in the entire British where Africans formed the majority popula- Empire. While its position in the colonial world tion. When the British first arrived in 1627, they was established in the mid-seventeenth century, claimed...

...Jareh Das The late British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98) developed a unique vocabulary critiquing wider representations of the black male body that extended beyond his status as a person living with sickle cell disease to the lives of others with a shared racial background. Critical yet full...