ARTIST AND EMPIRE

Over the past thirty years, our ideas about the cultures of Empire have been transformed. Contemporary reflections on Empire by writ ers and artists are widely published and displayed, and museums have witnessed a growing number of exhibitions devoted to aspects of the rich and varied visual culture that emerged in places under British governance, from the Americas to India and Australasia. And yet, since the vast Imperial exhibitions of the early twentieth-century there has been no wide-ranging presentation of the objects made acro...[Read more]