Art & Exhibitions Rare 17th-Century Painting of Black and White Women Debuts After Export Ban The highly unusual painting reveals 17th-century anxieties over immorality, vanity, and foreign influence.

Seeing that the Black woman and white woman are depicted as equals makes the painting an important tool to study race and gender in 17th century Britain. The image is an oil on canvas painting.

Clay pipes, bear grease, toothbrushes and sugar moulds all dug up in Whitechapel are now on display as part of a small but ...

THIS WEEKEND multidisciplinary artist Gaylene Gould will open a new public artwork honouring the history of London’s healing wells and the legend of 17th-century Black woman well keeper, Mary ...