A Summer Pause (Kind Of)

For reading about: Black Britain beyond London, Paul Gilroy's photographic histories, Victorian portraits, artist mothers and the Saar family legacy

Hello readers, friends,

I'm pressing pause on the regular Shade Art Review newsletter for August and September while I take a summer break and work on some new things behind the scenes. But I'm not disappearing entirely.

Instead, I'm doing something I rarely allow myself, slowing down with books. Real, physical books. As part of my mission to get back to …