a stirring celebration of black artists
Déjà vu? You may feel you’ve seen the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition before. In a sense, you have. There are 22 contemporary artists in curator Ekow Eshun’s celebration of “Black figuration”, The Time is Always Now. Many, of late, have been centre stage. Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Jennifer Packer: all,