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#127 Alayo Akinkugbe on Artistic History

Welcome to Wanna Be- the podcast takes you from where you are now to where you wanna be in 30 minutes or less. Happy Black History Month!   I’m Imriel Morgan, Founder of Content is Queen a podcast community that specialises in empowering and amplifying underrepresented voices, specifically women, p…

#127 Alayo Akinkugbe on Artistic History

Welcome to Wanna Be- the podcast takes you from where you are now to where you wanna be in 30 minutes or less. Happy Black History Month!   I’m Imriel Morgan, Founder of Content is Queen a podcast community that specialises in empowering and amplifying underrepresented voices, specifically women, p…

Physical/ Virtual

Digital technologies are continually changing the way we engage with and relate to physical objects. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Alayo Akinkugbe, Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE and Dani…

Alayo Akinkugbe, Young Art Historian and Activist

21-year-old aspiring art curator Alayo Akinkugbe joins us this week at Young at Art. She discusses the Instagram account she created, @ablackhistoryofart, which showcases the talents of many undiscovered and overlooked black artists, sitters, curators, and thinkers from the fifteenth century to tod…

A Black History of Art with Alayo Akinkugbe

EPISODE 32 of 'All About Art': Interview with Alayo Akinkugbe, founder of A Black History of Art In this episode, I had the joy of sitting down with Alayo Akinkugbe, the founder of an Instagram account that has been a game changer - Alayo founded A Black History Of Art in 2020 and she did so with …

Lise Davidsen, film Past Lives and Black Atlantic: power, people, resistance exhibition

Presenter Samira Ahmed is joined by the broadcaster and Chair of Judges Reeta Chakrabarti to announce the shortlist of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University. Front Row will interview each of the shortlisted authors in the coming weeks, ahead of hosting the award ceremon…

So, Samuel de Saboia, contemporary art prodigy…tell us all about your community-based approach to creativity! (And P.S. What does 'peaceful loudness + fierce harmony' mean to you, in relation to getting your work seen and heard?)

Welcome to the Creative Blood Experience. One culture-defining creative guest… One passionate host… And a deck of 50 question cards designed to yield incredible creative tips, real life experiences and untold stories from the artists working across the creative industries today! Travelling the worl…

Muses

From the Pre-Raphaelites to Picasso, Vermeer to Freud, some of the most famous Western artwork involves an artist’s muse. So who are the muses who have inspired great art? How do they embody an artist’s vision? And why has the muse artist relationship led to abuse of power? Nuala speaks to art hist…

'Reframing Blackness': Author Alayo Akinkugbe on rethinking art history

The author of a new book that examines the role and under-representation of Black people in traditional Western art has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how her youth as often the only Black person in the room led her to the idea for the book. Alayo Akinkugbe was born in Nigeria but studied in England fro…

Lubaina Himid (Venice Biennale Special)

A conversation with Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid, who is representing Britain at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with 'Predicting History: Testing Translation’. The episode also features curator Ese Onojeruo discussing the making of the exhibition. Himid’s …