Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Gentileschi 15 November 2019, Paris Yesterday Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting, Lucrece (Lucretia) was auctioned, doubling the price reached for her work two years ago in 2017. Work by the artist rarely comes to market, and this newly discovered […]
Untitled (Mlle Bourgeoise Noire). 1980-83Mlle Bourgeoise Noire – Ms Black Middle-Class – was the alter ego of Lorraine O’Grady (performance 1980-83). O’Grady turned her anger at the lack of opportunities for black artists to show their work, into this public […]
This portrait of Olaudah Equiano, the enslaved African who became a free man, wrote a book about his experience and a became a leading abolitionist, by Christy Symington, is currently on show at the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition. […]
