The Time is Always Now

The Time is Always Now

Tamaa Almashama

Reframing Masculinity: Henry Taylor’s portraits challenge stereotypes, and honour fatherhood

Exploring the intersection of art and social justice amidst global discourse on masculinity, discrimination, and representation.

Mar 22

Reframing Masculinity: Henry Taylor’s portraits challenge stereotypes, and honour fatherhood

Mar 22

Tanya Malik

The Time Is Always Now: A revolutionary look into Black history

The National Portrait Gallery at Leicester Square is currently hosting an extraordinary art exhibition titled “The Time is Always Now.”…

Mar 15

The Time Is Always Now: A revolutionary look into Black history

Mar 15

Mars Ravea

Sonic stories on canvas: Documenting music through art

With each pencil stroke echoing the reverberations of dub music, this painting by Denzil Forrester from The Time is Always Now exhibition…

Mar 14

Sonic stories on canvas: Documenting music through art

Mar 14

erin cant stop talking

Hurvin Anderson invites you into the Black barbershop

Many of us move through life on an endless search for things that make us feel alive. We expect this feeling to be wrapped up in something…

Mar 12

A single figure sits in the barbers chair, facing a red side table, surrounded by blue walls

Mar 12

Cristabell Fierros

Blackness Portraiture: Kerry James Marshall’s African American Modern Western History Art

African American artist Kerry James Marshall’s Black portraiture paintings are considered an integral part of what it means to be Black in…

Mar 12

Blackness Portraiture: Kerry James Marshall’s African American Modern Western History Art

Mar 12

Charlotte Maracina

Yvonne and James: A Love Letter to NYC

Yvonne and James show what it means to be a New Yorker better than any movie ever could

Mar 12

Yvonne and James sitting on chairs

Mar 12

Natália Maria de Oliveira Magalhães

Njideka Akunyili Crosby opens the doors of her home

On display at the National Portrait Gallery, the Nigerian artist’s work extends a special invitation to visitors. What happens when we…

Mar 11

A black woman holding a baby on her lap, sitting on a straw chair on the veranda of her house, surrounded by native plants and flowers. Painting by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “Still You Bloom In This Land of No Gardens”. Currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Mar 11

Héloïse Le Fourner

Re-presenting history: girl with a pearl necklace by Barbara Walker and Titus Kaphar

What could be more astonishing than discovering in the same exhibition, The Time is Always Now, two contemporary reinterpretations by…

Mar 11

Re-presenting history: girl with a pearl necklace by Barbara Walker and Titus Kaphar

Mar 11

Ruta Bakshi

Reflecting on forgotten moments in history

Mar 11

Reflecting on forgotten moments in history

Mar 11

Sadie Pitcher

Barbara Walker draws the Black figure into history

Barbara Walker’s Vanishing Point is the highlight of The Time Is Always Now, on show at The National Portrait Gallery.

Mar 11

Barbara Walker draws the Black figure into history

Mar 11

Responses to the National Portrait Gallery exhibition: https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2024/the-time-is-always-now
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Simon Hinde
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