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There is Light Somewhere at the Hayward Gallery: an emotional exploration of history and belonging

There is Light Somewhere, the title of the latest show by conceptual artist Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery in London, is borrowed from a James Baldwin quote. In his final book of essays, Nothing Personal (1964), the American novelist and social critic wrote:

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What's on in July: things to do in London this month

July is busy with new restaurants, but there’s plenty else to get stuck into as well, says Mike Daw

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Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere; Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours – review

Forgotten Black heroes, from spacemen to musicians, are celebrated in an enthralling show by the New York-based Bahamian. Megan Rooney’s singular murals, meanwhile, are a riot of colour and incident

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Tavares Strachan review – encyclopaedic art that sizzles with life

From a hut that plays music as if it’s history’s jukebox to a rocket fuelled with sugarcane, the Bahamian makes art freighted with history and peopled by the overlooked and flawed

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Why is there a ship on top of the Hayward Gallery? Artist and explorer Tavares Strachan explains

The boundary pushing artist, who has a major new show at the Hayward, on his travels to the North Pole and the edge of space: ‘You find solace in the extreme’

Evening Standard

Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery review – imaginative show delights, informs and calls us to action

This first major survey of the artist’s work takes us on a journey in search of knowledge

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The best exhibitions in London this summer, from Barbie to Vincent van Gogh

From rare works from Renaissance masters, to photography series celebrating play, the city is packed with dazzling art shows

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Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change review – the most radical show in the RA’s history

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

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Entangled Pasts 1768-Now review – RA all at sea with its risk-light colonial revisionism

From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring

The Guardian - UK

The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci’s dinner guests

He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas’s place himself. The Bahamian’s epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 – and the Royals are in his sights

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