With ‘The Time Is Always Now,’ Ekow Eshun Cements His Status as Britain’s Most Inspired—And Inspiring—Curator
Price, and Henry Taylor), the show explores the complexities and richness of Black life through figuration. Oh, its getting there, he says brightly. Eshun, it turns out, has perfected the art of waiting optimistically for things to come together. Toyin Ojih Odutola,The Marchioness, 2016 I first proposed the show to the National Portrait Gallery five years ago, he explains. I felt we were in an extraordinary period of Black artists working in figuration, depicting the Black body....