CONTENTS

OPENER Lubaina Himid’s A Fashionable Marriage 8

Q&A The artist and sex activist Ajamu talks about his photographs that challenge notions of identity and desire 17

PREVIEW Emily Speed’s new film commission Flatland at Tate Liverpool 19

PREVIEW John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family caused a stir a century ago – now they are shown together again 21

OPINION The art curricula in the UK fail to represent a diverse range of voices and must be urgently reformed, argues Alayo Akinkugbe 22

TATE BRITAIN Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 50s – Now Ahead of the landmark exhibition exploring Caribbean-British art from the Windrush generation to today, curators Alex Farquharson and

David A. Bailey talk to artists Isaac Julien and Alberta Whittle about community, creole and collage

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Hurvin Anderson Hawksbill Bay 2020 (p.30)

Lubaina Himid Le Rodeur: The Exchange 2016 (p.46)

William Hogarth The Painter and his Pug 1745 (p.56)

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TATE MODERN All the World’s a Stage Lubaina Himid’s art, writes Jennifer Higgie, is inspired by her interest in theatre and colourfully and sensitively gives voice to people who have been overlooked or silenced throughout history

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TATE BRITAIN English, Moi? William Hogarth is often thought of as a quintessential British artist, described as ‘down to earth, wryly humorous and unconventional’.

But, as curator Martin Myrone suggests, his art also shaped, and was influenced by, that of his fellow European artists

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