EMPIRE LINES
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EMPIRE LINES uncovers the unexpected, often two-way, flows of empires through art.
Interdisciplinary thinkers use individual artworks as artefacts of imperial exchange, revealing the how and why of the monolith ‘empire’.
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MUSIC: Combinación // The Dubbstyle
PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic
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Hero’s Head, Richard Hunt (1956) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube, Centre Pompidou)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Our Island Stories: Ten Walks Through Rural Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire, Corinne Fowler, with Ingrid Pollard (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Invasion Ecology)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Furnace Fruit, Karanjit Panesar (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Leeds Art Gallery, British Library)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Terratypes, Tanoa Sasraku (2022-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x RAMM, ICA)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998 (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican, with Shanay Jhaveri, Anita Dube, and Nalini Malani) (2024)
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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World Civil War Portraits, Sara Shamma (2015) (EMPIRE LINES Live at PEACE FREQUENCIES, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Museum of Damascus)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Ancestral Future, Ailton Krenak (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Arika, Tramway)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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I Am in a Pretty Pickle, Steph Huang (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x esea contemporary, Tate Britain)
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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It Will End in Tears, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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M Street, Sylvia Snowden (1978-1997) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube Paris)
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging, Jessica J. Lee (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Invasion Ecology)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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A Right of an Exile, Kedisha Coakley (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Hepworth Wakefield)
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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House of Weaving Songs, Dhaqan Collective (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall x Counterpoints Arts, Art Reach)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Innocence, Permindar Kaur (1993) (EMPIRE LINES x John Hansard Gallery, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2024)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta, El Anatsui (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Talbot Rice Gallery)
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Sekondi Locomotive Workshop, Ibrahim Mahama (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Fruitmarket, White Cube)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby, Sequoia Danielle Barnes (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh Art Festival 2024)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Casa de Maria, Beatriz Milhazes (1992) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate St Ives, Turner Contemporary)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Avi-Alarm, Hanna Tuulikki (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology)
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The Time is Always Now, Ekow Eshun (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x National Portrait Gallery, The Box)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Taboo Durag, Paul Maheke (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x MOSTYN, Glasgow International)
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology)
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May 30, 2024 |
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Twist, LR Vandy (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x October Gallery, Chatham Ropery)
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May 16, 2024 |
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Melted into the Sun, Saodat Ismailova (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Fondazione In Between Art Film, Venice Biennale)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Decolonised Structures (Queen Victoria), Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (2022-2023) (EMPIRE LINES x The Serpentine Galleries, Venice Biennale)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Dreams Have No Titles, Zineb Sedira (2022-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Whitechapel Gallery, Goodman Gallery, Venice Biennale)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Giolo’s Lament, Pio Abad (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Ashmolean Museum)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Camera Obscura, Pia Arke (1990) (EMPIRE LINES x John Hansard Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Medium and Memory, Griselda Pollock (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x HackelBury Fine Art)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Lost Threads, Lubaina Himid (2021, 2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Holburne Museum, British Textile Biennale)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy (1993-Now) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Radical Ecology)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Noko Y3 Dzen (There’s Something in the World), Serge Attukwei Clottey (2018-Now) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Habitat, Taloi Havini (2017) (EMPIRE LINES x Artes Mundi 10, National Museum of Wales, Chapter, MOSTYN)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Freud: El Mago de los Sueños (The Wizard of Dreams), Vidas Ilustres Comic Book (1963)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The Madras College of Arts and Crafts, India (1850-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x The Noble Sage, Brunei Gallery)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Queer Feet, Osman Yousefzada (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Charleston)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Learning from Artemisia, Uriel Orlow and Orchestre Jeunes Étoiles des Astres (2019-2020) (EMPIRE LINES x Eden Project)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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White Zombie, Victor Halperin (1932) (EMPIRE LINES x Visions of Haiti, Barbican Cinema)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The Black Triangle, Armet Francis (1969) (EMPIRE LINES x Autograph)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Whites Can Dance Too, Kalaf Epalanga, translated by Daniel Hahn (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Kizomba Design Museum, Africa Writes 2023 at the British Library)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Where Worlds Meet, Maha Ahmed (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Leighton House)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Arcadia, John Akomfrah (2023) (EMPIRE LINES at 100 x The Box, Sharjah Biennial 15)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Africa Series, Carrie Mae Weems (1993) (EMPIRE LINES x Kunstmuseum Basel)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Did You Come Here To Find History?, Nusra Latif Qureshi (2009) (EMPIRE LINES x MK Gallery, The Box)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Hélène Amouzou: Voyages (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Autograph)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Against Apartheid, Ashish Ghadiali (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Radical Ecology, KARST)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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And I Have My Own Business In This Skin, Claudette Johnson (1982) (EMPIRE LINES x The Courtauld Gallery)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Declaration of Independence, Barby Asante (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Art on the Underground)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Story, Place, Tony Albert (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Sullivan+Strumph, Frieze London)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Chorus in Rememory of Flight, Julianknxx (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Living in the Wake of the Lust for Sugar, Elsa James (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Museum of London Docklands)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Fitzwilliam Museum)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s) (EMPIRE LINES x Kettle’s Yard)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Home is Not a Place, Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson (2021-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x The Photographers’ Gallery)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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What Remains at the End of the Earth?, Imani Jacqueline Brown (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Hayward Gallery)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Lagos Soundscapes, Emeka Ogboh (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x South London Gallery, Southbank Centre)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts at Japan House London (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x historicity Tokyo)
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Photographs of the Polar Silk Road, Gregor Sailer (2017-2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Natural History Museum)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Exile is a Hard Job, Nil Yalter (1974-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Ab-Anbar Gallery)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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A History of a City In a Box, Ndidi Dike (2019) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The Casablanca Art School (1962-1987) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate St Ives)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Oneness, Shahrzad Ghaffari (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Leighton House)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Carrie Mae Weems (1995–1996) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Silent Protests, Tewa Barnosa (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Shubbak Festival, The Africa Centre)
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman, Vincent van Gogh (1890) (EMPIRE LINES x Van Gogh Museum)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Barbershop, Hurvin Anderson (2006-2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Hepworth Wakefield)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Dal Puri Diaspora, Richard Fung (2012) (EMPIRE LINES x Museum of London Docklands)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Too Loud a Dust, Musquiqui Chihying (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Tabula Rasa Gallery, London Gallery Weekend 2023)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Evolution, Paintings for the Temple, Hilma af Klint (1908) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern)
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May 31, 2023 |
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The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend (20th Century-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Royal Academy)
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May 25, 2023 |
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The Experiment with the Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby (1768) and Nalini Malani (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x National Gallery, Holburne Museum)
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May 18, 2023 |
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We Kiss the Earth: Danish Modern Art, 1934-1948 (EMPIRE LINES x Cobra Museum of Modern Art)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Spouts, Ai Weiwei (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Design Museum)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Red-Figure Hydria of Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ancient Greece (380-360BCE) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum London)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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River Atlas, Law Yuk-Mui (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Two Temple Place and Kakilang)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery (EMPIRE LINES x Rijksmuseum, United Nations)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Antique French Military Uniform with Kumihimo, Hasegawa Akira (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Japan House London)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Painting on an Island (Carrera), Peter Doig (2019) (EMPIRE LINES x The Courtauld Gallery)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Children of the Manston US Air Force Servicemen Print Series, Richard Birch (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Turner Contemporary)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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(Re)Introducing: EMPIRE LINES
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Kiti Cha Enzi (Swahili Chair of Power), East Africa (19th Century)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Thabo, Thabiso and Blackx, Araminta de Clermont (2010)
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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We Came Here, Harold Offeh (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Van Gogh House Interview)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Indigenous Intermediary Geua in ‘Photographs Mainly of Port Moresby’, George Lawes, (1880s)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Luxborough Galley on Fire, 25 June 1727, John Cleveley the Elder (c. 18th Century)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Vinyl Record of Drive My Car, The Beatles (1965)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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My Reality is Different, Nalini Malani (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x National Gallery, Holburne Museum Interview)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (8th Century)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Queen Anne Wine Bottle, Shiraz (1708)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Self Evident, Ingrid Pollard (1992) (EMPIRE LINES x Turner Contemporary Interview)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Batchelor Girl's Room, Althea McNish/Studio Nyali (1966/2022) (EMPIRE LINES x William Morris Gallery Interview)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Murals, Malangatana Ngwenya (1967, 1987) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern and The Africa Centre Interview)
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Memorial to Lost Words at the Lahore Museum, Bani Abidi (2016/2018)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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The Dark Dancer, Balachandra Rajan (1958)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Colonial Days: We Demand Colonies For Poland Poster, Maritime and Colonial League (1938)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire (18th Century)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Ivory Statue of St. Michael the Archangel, Basilica of Guadalupe (17th Century)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, John Greenwood (c. 1752-1758)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Map of Endowments for 'Colonial' University, New Zealand (1873)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Painting of Silver Labourers in Potosí, Bolivia, from Translation of the History of the New World (c. 17th Century)
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May 12, 2022 |
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The Tragedy of Mustapha, Fulke Greville (1609) and Roger Boyle (1665)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Pierced Jade Scholar's Screen, China (19th Century) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum Interview)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Mining the Museum at the Maryland Historical Society, Fred Wilson (1992-1993)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Old Britain Castles Ceramic Plate, Johnson Brothers (1930)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Standard Willow Ceramic Plate, Josiah Spode (1800-1820)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Water Splotch from the Bay of Bengal, Ship Diary of Levi Savage (1852-1853)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Elizabeth Hamilton (1796)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Possession Island (Abstraction), Gordon Bennett (1991)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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a preponderance of aboriginal blood, Judy Watson (2005)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Teak Column of al-Qalis, Mecca (6th Century)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Linen Market, Dominica, Agostino Brunias (c. 1780)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Cashew Nuts for the Mozambican Revolution Poster, Alexandre Milhafre (c. 1979) (EMPIRE LINES x SOAS Interview)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Fifth Edition of Les Mille et Une Nuit (The Thousand and One Nights), Antoine Galland (1729)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Knotted Pile Carpet, Lahore Central Jail (c. 1880)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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'White Buddhist' Statue of Theosophist Henry Steel Olcott, Colombo (c. 1970s)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Sun City, Artists United Against Apartheid (1985)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City, Cristóbal de Villalpando (c. 1695)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Uzun Kemer Ottoman Aqueduct Bridge, Istanbul (c. 1560s)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Dubai Kathu Pattu (Dubai Letter Song), S. A. Jameel (1977)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Indian Elephant Chess Piece (c. 17th-18th Century)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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A New Map of the Island of Barbados, Philip Lea and John Seller (1686)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Mexican Enconchado of the Virgin of Guadalupe (c. 1700s)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Four Ports Panorama, Carlos Julião (c. 1780s)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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European Photographs in the Illustrated Weekly of India, Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy (1959-1960)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Vatcha Adaran Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Bombay (1881)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Yugoslavia Pavilion for the Paris Expo, Josip Seissel (1937)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital (in Hiroshima), Kobayashi Kiyochika (1895)
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May 06, 2021 |
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Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Producer Jelena Sofronijevic (EMPIRE LINES x Retrospect Live Event)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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The Magnificent Seven (Port of Spain), Trinidad (c. 1902-1910)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Two Islamic Bronzes with Al-Mulk Inscription (c. 10th Century)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Self-Portrait of the Artist in Macau, George Chinnery (c. 1844)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Replica of the Kudara Kannon, Niiro Chunosuke (1931-1932)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Ceylonese Tea Pickers, Edward Atkinson Hornel (c. 1907)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Azulejos for a Portuguese Church Altar (17th Century)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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The Czartoryski Polonaise Carpet (17th Century)
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Cartoons for The Workers’ Herald, James Christie Scott (1920s)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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The Tribes of Israel (Jacob and his Twelve Sons), Francisco de Zurbarán (1640s)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Bengali Colcha with Triumphal Arch of the Flemish (Mid 17th Century)
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Electra House, London (1902)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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John Bull’s Other Island, George Bernard Shaw (1904)
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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The Great Mosque(s) of Djenné, Mali
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Oct 01, 2020 |