My review of “The African Kingdom of Gold,” Barnaby Phillips's latest book where he explores how British colonial forces plundered the Asante people and expertly traces the stolen artifacts’ afterlives in museum storage.
Aug 18 26August 18, 2026
Article at Hyperallergic
The first show on the subject in the UK offers an ambitious, if uneven, look at how artists forged a postcolonial identity
Apr 28 26April 28, 2026
An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.
Mar 30 25March 30, 2025
Rather than his military prowess or finely crafted weapons, it was Sikhism that sustained Ranjit Singh’s empire.
Sep 23 24September 23, 2024
A show hones in on the tension between colonial European ideas and local styles of architecture as India and Ghana gained independence.
Sep 08 24September 08, 2024
As part of our Sustainability in Art essay series, London-based journalist Aditya Iyer critically examines the role of digitization in art.
May 03 23May 03, 2023
Article at Art Dusseldorf Magazine
Locke's stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.
Nov 07 22November 07, 2022
The documentary/fiction hybrid film 499 uses a fictional character to speak to real-life contemporary colonized people.
Aug 30 21August 30, 2021
But it is also dangerous because it distracts us from understanding how Patel as Home Secretary upholds structural racism in Britain.
Jul 28 21July 28, 2021
Article at Metro
Exiled from India, anticolonial activist M. N. Roy charted a revolutionary course that took him everywhere from Mexico City to Moscow. Today, his life is a reminder of how global the struggle for freedom continues to be.
Article at Tribune Magazine
For all its bluntness, "Exterminate All the Brutes" never once utters the words “rape” or “capitalism.”
Jun 13 21June 13, 2021
The British government's new “free speech champion,” Oliver Dowden, has threatened museums with funding cuts if they remove controversial statues.
Mar 10 21March 10, 2021
Aditya Iyer speaks with The Black Curriculum, Fill in The Blanks UK and The Free Black University about the ongoing movement to decolonise UK education
Feb 15 21February 15, 2021
Article at Skin Deep Magazine
Oxford University professor Dan Hicks on why Western museums must urgently return colonial-era objects.
Feb 03 21February 03, 2021
Article at Al Jazeera
“Empire and Collecting,” a new self-guided tour, reflects an attempt to help visitors understand the colonial origins of the collection.
Dec 03 20December 03, 2020
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) was an Indian scholar, merchant, and politician who was a founding member of the Indian National Congress. Born to a Parsi family in Navsarai in the then-Bombay Presidency (now modern-day Gujarat), Naoroji’s major
Jul 11 20July 11, 2020
Article at Global Social Theory
At Oxford University, the Black Lives Matter movement has renewed protests over sanitized public narratives surrounding the violent legacy of British imperialism.
Jun 30 20June 30, 2020
Protesters’ removal of Edward Colston’s statue didn’t attack history; instead it corrected how we write it.
Jun 10 20June 10, 2020
A new, first-of-its-kind exhibition in London spotlights painters associated with with Kampani Qalam, the Urdu name for the rich, hybrid art style associated with commissions for the East India Company.
Feb 25 20February 25, 2020
The British Museum's Inspired by the East asks its audience to rehabilitate Orientalist art without ever focusing on what made it problematic in the first place.
Jan 02 20January 02, 2020
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