The Royal Academy of Arts

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I had a very interesting meeting with one of the RA’s curators and researchers. 

Sir Francis Grant, the first Scottish president of the RA, was fully involved with its relocation from The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London to Burlington House, Piccadilly as well as the subsequent alterations and refurbishment.

The RA is planning a major exhibition (February -April 2024) Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change. It will form part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism – and how it may help set a course for the future.

It sounds fascinating.