Don’t miss the exquisite Native-American carvings at the Sainsbury Centre

It’s payback time: women, artists from ethnic minorities and non-western traditions are taking over the exhibition schedules. On the heels of the seven women expressionists in Making Modernism at the Royal Academy comes Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South. ‘We are aware that art history has excluded a lot of artists and it is incumbent on us to broaden our perspective,’ said Academy secretary Axel Rüger at the press view – and for anyone who failed to grasp the magnitude of the moment one of the artists, Lonnie Holley, added: ‘This is the Royal Academy of Arts. This is not just some come-by-lately museum, hear what I’m saying?’

The 34 artists from the Black Belt states of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi look completely at ease in Piccadilly. It’s not just the inventiveness of their work but the scale of its ambition.