Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Eshun, Ekow
2. Cullinan, Nicholas
3. Edugyan, Esi
4. Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969-
5. Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-
6. Holdaway, Sarah
7. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution, publisher.
8. Box (Plymouth, England), host institution.
9. Philadelphia Museum of Art, host institution.
10. North Carolina Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

1. 191 pages : color illustrations, color portraits; 31 cm

Summary

1. "'The Time is Always Now' assembles contemporary African diasporic artists working in the UK and US whose practice foregrounds the Black figure. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, this publication explores and celebrates contemporary Black artists internationally who work within Black figuration. This visual book examines contemporary figurative artworks against a backdrop of heightened cultural visibility. Within this context, its collected paintings, drawings and sculptures take on a dual role as the accomplished work of individual artists and as a collective assertion of Black presence" --

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. Artists, Black -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
3. Black people in art -- Exhibitions
4. Black people -- Portraits -- Exhibitions
5. Artists, Black -- Exhibitions
6. Black people in art
7. Black people
8. Portraits
9. Artists, Black

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. Portraits.

Contents

1. Director's foreword / Nicholas Cullinan -- Introduction : the time is always now / Ekow Eshun -- Double consciousness -- The fabric of things / Esi Edugyan -- Michael Armitage / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Noah Davis / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Claudette Johnson / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Kerry James Marshall / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Wangechi Mutu / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Jennifer Packer / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Thomas J. Price / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Nathaniel Mary Quinn / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Amy Sherald / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Lorna Simpson / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Voices : reflections on Black bodies and Black lives by authors, poets, and scholars -- Past and presence -- New angels of history / Dorothy Price -- Godfried Donkor / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Kimathi Donkor / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Lubaina Himid / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Titus Kaphar / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Barbara Walker / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Voices : reflections on Black bodies and Black lives by authors, poets and scholars -- Our aliveness -- Blackness as a free state / Bernadine Evaristo -- Njideka Akunyili Crosby / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Hurvin Anderson / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Jordan Casteel / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Denzil Forrester / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Chris Ofili / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Toyin Ojih Odutola / [Sarah Holdaway] -- Henry Taylor / [Sarah Holdaway].

Call number

1. Sc+ G 24-42

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188).

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, February 22 - May 19, 2024; The Box, Plymouth, June 29 - September 29, 2024; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, November 9 - February 9, 2025; North Carolina Museum of Art, March 8 - June 29, 2025.

Title

1. The time is always now : artists reframe the Black figure / exhibition curator and catalogue editor, Ekow Eshun ; artist profiles written by Sarah Holdaway.

Publisher

1. London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, National Portrait Gallery, [2024]

Copyright date

1. ©2024

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188).

Exhibitions

1. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, February 22 - May 19, 2024; The Box, Plymouth, June 29 - September 29, 2024; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, November 9 - February 9, 2025; North Carolina Museum of Art, March 8 - June 29, 2025.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Eshun, Ekow, curator, editor, organizer, writer of introduction.
2. Cullinan, Nicholas, writer of foreword.
3. Edugyan, Esi, writer of supplementary textual content.
4. Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969- writer of supplementary textual content.
5. Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959- writer of supplementary textual content.
6. Holdaway, Sarah, writer of supplementary textual content.
7. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution, publisher.
8. Box (Plymouth, England), host institution.
9. Philadelphia Museum of Art, host institution.
10. North Carolina Museum of Art, host institution.

ISBN

1. 9781855145580 (hardback)
2. 1855145588 (hardback)

Research call number

1. Sc+ G 24-42