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From emerging to established artists, big galleries to intimate spaces - here are the London art exhibitions to see this month

Based in Accra, Ghana, Gallery 1957 has established itself as a major player in the contemporary art scene. Named for the year in which Ghana achieved

Ekow Eshun has embarked on a mission to formulate a new narrative from the Black perspective for a 21st-century audience....

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A new survey exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery looks at how contemporary artists are choosing to represent the Black figure.

The presence, and absence, of Black figures in western art is turned on its head in an exhilarating showcase of 21st-century artists from the African diaspora. Elsewhere, some of the same artists reimagine landscape

In ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’, curator Ekow Eshun unites works from 22 African diasporic artists working in the UK and US

Plus splashy colourful paintings, Korean colour pencil drawings and Yoko Ono’s huge retrospective – all in your weekly dispatch

Portraits of Black people by Black people – a new exhibition in London aims to reinterpret how Black people are portrayed and viewed in art. 22 artists of African descent present 55 artworks at the National Portrait Gallery until May 19th.

From an escaped slave pointing a gun to a kid in a Birmingham barber shop, this terrific show shuttles back and forth between times, places, sculpture and painting