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This site features essays, blog posts, exhibition reviews and other commentaries examining the cultural geographies of museums, galleries, heritage and the arts, researched and written by Carol Ann Dixon, Ph.D.
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Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change – An Illustrated Review
Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s illustrated review of a curated selection of long-standing and recently acquired holdings of fine art portraits, drawings, archival documents, rare books, sculptures and cultural artefacts from the Royal Academy’s extensive collections. The presentation juxtaposes c.100 thematically arranged and grouped assemblages that visualise the “Entangled Pasts” and legacies of enslavement and resistance…
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Documenting Joy, Resilience and Resistance in the African Diaspora – Photographer Armet Francis in Conversation with Mark Sealy and Gary Younge
Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s review of the gallery session “Documenting Joy, Resilience and Resistance in the African Diaspora” (Autograph, London, 18 January 2024). This discursive event featured an exhibition-based presentation by curator Dr Mark Sealy OBE, in conversation with Jamaican-British photographer Armet Francis (b. 1945, Santa Cruz) and award-winning British author and academic Gary Younge.
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London Film Screening – “Je Suis Noires” – In Conversation with Rachel M’Bon, 12 January 2024
The Decolonial Dialogues research collective, working in collaboration with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD) and The London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), are pleased to be co-hosting the inaugural UK screening of “Je Suis Noires: Becoming a Black Woman” (AKKA Films) – at RCSSD’s Embassy Theatre, London, on 12 January 2024…
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Review of the 11th London edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, 2023
Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s illustrated review of the 11th London edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. The 2023 showcase at Somerset House featured paintings, sculpture, fine art photography, ceramics, mixed-media installations and other creative outputs by more than 170 artists and collectives from continental Africa and the diaspora.
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Conference on Tourism, Memory and Heritage (Amsterdam, 1-2 June 2023): A Review Report, by Carol Ann Dixon, Ph.D.
In early June 2023 I took part in a transdisciplinary conference on ‘Tourism, Memory and Heritage’ – held at the International Institute of Social History and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam (1-2 June 2023). The conference was convened by Dr Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong (Assistant Professor in Cultural Geography, Wageningen University…
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End of Empire, by Yinka Shonibare CBE: An Art-Political Installation of Significance
Nigerian-British contemporary artist and Royal Academician Yinka Shonibare CBE is one of Britain’s finest creative talents, known internationally for producing a body of visually stunning and thought-provoking art installations that help us to critically examine the impacts and legacies of empire. An example of one of Shonibare’s most insightful works is “End of Empire” (2016).
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