Slavery
New plaques on controversial City of London sculptures highlight links to slavery
Artists, poets and writers will also respond to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass following the introduction of the UK's "retain and explain" policy
The story of Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist
Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career
Rijksmuseum's groundbreaking slavery exhibition heads to United Nations headquarters in New York
Speakers from around the world have been invited to a two-day talks programme centred around the display
Charleston reckons with its role in the international slave trade through its museums
The historic Charleston Museum and the forthcoming International African American Museum will explore the city's painful past
A twisted tale of sugar and slaves: Alberta Whittle uncovers awkward truths in UK show
The Barbados-born artist confronts the unpalatable past of Guy Ball, the great-grandfather of the Holburne Museum’s founder
Artist stages 'slave ship' installation at London building that once housed British Navy offices
Grada Kilomba's multilingual work is part of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House
The artist confronting the history of New York’s slave trade
In her Armory Show solo stand with Higher Pictures Generation, Nona Faustine calls attention to the city’s oft-overlooked and pervasive ties to slavery
Controversial slave trader painting at National Museum Cardiff—removed in wake of Black Lives Matter—is rehung
The work, depicting the Lieutenant-General Thomas Picton, is now on display as part of an exhibition reframing his legacy
More than 100 sculptures on slave trade to be unveiled across seven UK cities
Artists including Lakwena Maciver and Godfried Donkor will create work examining colonial history in Britain
New report recommends Bristol’s controversial slaver statue—torn down by BLM protestors—be permanently installed in museum
After four people who toppled Edward Colston statue are acquitted, the debate over problematic public art deepens
UK Government Art Collection will review 300 works relating to slavery, colonialism and racism
Following questions by The Art Newspaper, tags stating the works were under interpretation were immediately removed from the website
Colston: Four BLM protestors found not guilty of criminal damage after toppling Bristol slave trader statue
Trial reignited the debate about the value of colonial-era contested monuments and statues
Remarkable new book reveals the dark side of the Sun King
'The Sun King at Sea' shows how Louis XIV, known for his long reign, and cultural and political power, was also a cruel slave-keeper
Ghostly photographs of the Virginia swamp once used by escapee slaves win Prix Pictet
Sally Mann's images of the Great Dismal Swamp gutted by wildfire "epitomise the great fire of racial strife in America"
Trial of 'Colston Four', who helped topple slave trader statue in Bristol, begins
Banksy is selling t-shirts to help fund costs of four accused protestors
At a Cambridge University college wrestling with its imperial past, Shahzia Sikander’s show offers new ideas on restitution
As Jesus College confronts its ties to slavery, the Pakistani Neo-miniature artist asks whether decolonisation need necessarily be a violent process
David Adjaye plans slavery museum in Barbados as new republic severs ties with Britain
Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade
London museum wants to move controversial slaver statue to 'less prominent space'
Museum of the Home trustees vote to relocate the sculpture after UK government pressured them to keep it
London’s National Gallery reveals slavery history in new research—including its founder’s ties to Caribbean
The data, published today, found 67 individuals connected to the slave trade including John Julius Angerstein who helped to establish the museum's collection
Slaves' room unearthed in Pompeii reveals lives of marginalised citizens
Previous discoveries made during the excavation of the Civita Giuliana villa include a ceremonial chariot and the bodies of two men
Removal of Welsh slave trader painting from National Museum Cardiff is ‘censoring history’, says BBC broadcaster
Newsreader Huw Edwards will now be invited to the museum to hear more about the reinterpretation process
Yale Center for British Art tries to identify enslaved Black child in 18th-century portrait of an early university benefactor
So far, the museum has not determined who the boy is, but it has reidentified other figures in the controversial painting, which is about to go back on view
Dread Scott's NFT 'White Male For Sale', a critique on slavery, to be auctioned off at Christie’s Post-War to Present sale
The work features a 1:10 loop of a business-class white man standing on an auction block
Bank of England removes ten slave trader works
But contentious statues of politicians involved in slave trade still remain in city's Guildhall building
Destroying public symbols of the past will not lead to a juster society. We must keep our mistakes visible
Our monuments should be radically relabelled or repurposed to better represent who we are today, says former British Museum director Neil MacGregor
Visiting a historic house should be about more than just cream teas and crocuses—their full histories, however unsettling, should be told
Being told about National Trust houses' connections to slavery should not deter visitors: the complex history adds to their interest
The Big Review: Slavery at the Rijksmuseum
Four years in the making, the exhibition has gained new urgency after the murder or George Floyd. How unflinchingly does it address its subject and its collection?
We tackled Dutch slaving history—the Rijksmuseum's exhibition could serve as a model of its kind
The Netherlands needs to collectively examine how its past has shaped today's society, says the director of the Amsterdam museum
Brooklyn’s long history of resistance is celebrated on Juneteenth
A series of installations and programmes draw on the Center for Brooklyn History's extensive archive
Slavery: the groundbreaking Dutch exhibition confronting colonial history
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