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There is Light Somewhere at the Hayward Gallery: an emotional exploration of history and belonging

There is Light Somewhere, the title of the latest show by conceptual artist Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery in London, is borrowed from a James Baldwin quote. In his final book of essays, Nothing Personal (1964), the American novelist and social critic wrote:

The Conversation · Jul 25, 2024

What's on in July: things to do in London this month

July is busy with new restaurants, but there’s plenty else to get stuck into as well, says Mike Daw

Evening Standard · Jul 2, 2024

Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere; Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours – review

Forgotten Black heroes, from spacemen to musicians, are celebrated in an enthralling show by the New York-based Bahamian. Megan Rooney’s singular murals, meanwhile, are a riot of colour and incident

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024

Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

Entangled Pasts 1768-Now review – RA all at sea with its risk-light colonial revisionism

From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci’s dinner guests

He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas’s place himself. The Bahamian’s epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 – and the Royals are in his sights

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2023