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"""A collection of essays and biographies takes an innovative approach to exploring the RA’s role in creating a canon of art founded in empire and enslavement."" - The Art Newspaper ""In this beautifully assembled but well-mannered show, gret (white) British artists such as Joshua Reynolds and JMW Turner are displayed alongside contemporary stars from Sonia Boyce to Yinka Shonibare as the RA interrogates its institutional links to colonialism."" - Independent ""Frank Bowling's abstract painting Middle Passage (1970) is simultaneously spectacular and anguished, a vast, red-and-gold view of the inferno. Hew Locke's Armada (2017-19), a motley flotilla of tattered model boats suspended from the ceiling, appears like a ghost-fleet passing silent through a melancholic waking dream."" - Telegraph ""According to the new show Entangled Pasts, Britain’s artistic history is linked to slavery and colonialism, and the RA has used the exhibit to acknowledge its own colonial history."" - Telegraph ""It is the frankest assessment by a British institution of its own colonial history. The academy’s president, Rebecca Salter, called it a “historically and structurally white, Eurocentric institution, where much-needed change towards decolonial praxis has only recently begun”."" - The Times ""The Royal Academy's Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change has some wonderful works…"" - The Times Online"

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Esther Chadwick, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Cora Gilroy-Ware, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Dorothy Price, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Sarah Lea, Royal Academy of Arts, London.

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