Entangled Art: Contemporary art collides with colonialism

Powerful moments from the Royal Academy of Arts' ‘Entangled Pasts’ exhibition

Tavares Strachan’s ‘The First Supper’ with the statue of Reynolds in the background.

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is hosting an exhibition that looks back unflinchingly at its own history and how it’s tied to colonialism, presenting historic artworks alongside pieces by contemporary British artists of the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas c…