“You make up your own mind what to think.” Hew Locke’s voice arrives like a whisper out of nowhere, emanating from speakers suspended throughout his new show at the British Museum in London. The ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of one of the most important holdings of modern and contemporary British art, Close Encounters: Figuration, Painting and Landscape in the Arts Council Collection is on ...

Over the entrance to the Met are medallion portraits of white, male art heroes. Enter Hew Locke with a timely and pointed message about “Gilt” (or “Guilt”). “Gilt: Trophy 3” (2022) by Hew Locke, one ...

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the British ...

In a show packed with treasures and tales of rampant imperial theft, the Guyanese-British artist compels you to look twice – and rethink everything. And finding poetry in the every day, Korean-style ...

Haunting and harrowing and a poignant requisite for all to see, Hew Locke’s powerful British Museum exhibition is not to be missed. An exhibition on British colonialism and empire hosted by the ...

LONDON — It is one thing to commission surveys into an art institution’s links to colonialism or slavery. Repatriation and recognition of cultural objects obtained by nefarious means remain urgent ...

In a show full of beauty and horror, which even includes ‘Jamaica’s Elgin Marbles’, the artist places his own works alongside those plundered by Britain from long-destroyed peoples Part history lesson ...

Hew Locke, "Ambassador 4," detail (2022), mixed media, including resin, metal, MDF, fabric, and plastic; Yale Center for British Art (© Hew Locke, image courtesy John Hammond) NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — ...