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
The Royal Academy’s Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change has some wonderful works, but they are lost in a show that tries to cover too much ground
A new exhibition details the institution’s links to colonialism and identifies academicians who ‘profited’ from slavery as well as those who favoured abolition