Pierre d’Alancaisez

Another exhibition that sees everything through the prism of race

The National Portrait Gallery’s aesthetically conservative new show The Time is Always Now bridges continents yet ignores class

‘The Marchioness’, 2016, by Toyin Ojih Odutola. © Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo courtesy of North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
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  • The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

    National Portrait Gallery, until 19 May

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