The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

Author: Ekow Eshun (Editor)
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Year: 2024
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-1855145580

Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Time is Always Now is edited by curator Ekow Eshun, former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The book brings together 22 contemporary African diasporic artists working primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States, whose practices―whether through painting, drawing or sculpture―foreground the Black figure.