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The Thing About Making Rocks, Sovay Berriman (2026), with Marie-Anne McQuay (EMPIRE LINES Live at Flamm 2026, Liverpool Biennial 2025)
56 mins; March 26, 2026
Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship, with Ahmet Öğüt (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Moderna galerija, Art on the Underground)
17 mins; March 11, 2026
I Am a Man and a Brother (2021-Now), with Chris Day and Gabriella Gay (EMPIRE LINES Live at V&A Wedgwood)
59 mins; February 26, 2026
Hidden Histories, with Wormcasts, from the Chelsea Physic Garden
5 mins; February 16, 2026
The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenment, Leslie Primo (2025), with Miranda Kaufmann (EMPIRE LINES Live at the National Gallery, London)
58 mins; January 29, 2026
The Water Diviners, Jumana Emil Abboud (2020-) (EMPIRE LINES x Artes Mundi 11, Mostyn)
21 mins; January 15, 2026
Every Monument Will Fall, Dan Hicks (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Common Ground, Oxford)
74 hours 13 mins; December 18, 2025
Introducing: Wormcasts, from the Chelsea Physic Garden
2 mins; December 08, 2025
Colorless Green Freedoms Sleep Furiously, Miloš Trakilović (2023), with Jelena Visković (EMPIRE LINES Live at Forma, Artists' Film International 2025)
44 mins; November 20, 2025
Voiceless Mass, Raven Chacon and Scottish Ensemble (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Fruitmarket, Edinburgh Art Festival 2025)
18 mins; November 05, 2025
The Trembling Museum, Manthia Diawara and Terri Geis (2023-2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at PEACE FREQUENCIES, The Hunterian)
19 mins; October 23, 2025
Burial, Emilija Å karnulytÄ— (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Folkestone Triennial 2025, Tate St Ives)
16 mins; October 01, 2025
If They Survive, They are Refugees, Duong Thuy Nguyen (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SLQS Gallery)
43 mins; September 18, 2025
Introducing: BUZZWORDS: Care with Jasmina Cibic
29 mins; September 04, 2025
It Should Not Be Forgotten, Elsa James (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Firstsite Colchester)
62 hours 53 mins; August 20, 2025
Love (Warbler Remix), Hanna Tuulikki (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Folkestone Triennial 2025)
16 mins; August 06, 2025
The Dhaba, Alia Syed (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at CCA Glasgow)
58 mins; July 23, 2025
A Cutting: Stone Portals, Leo Robinson (Ongoing) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, The Hunterian)
4 mins; July 16, 2025
A Cutting: Kinnomic Botany: Freeing the Potato from its Scientific and Colonial Ties, Iman Datoo (2022) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, Invasion Ecology)
4 mins; July 10, 2025
Kern, Amba Sayal-Bennett (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at SEEDLINGS, Somerset House Studios)
38 mins; June 25, 2025
Sweet & Sour, Hrair Sarkissian (2021-2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lisson Gallery)
15 mins; June 11, 2025
Palimpsest: Tales Spun From Sea And Memories, Billy Gerard Frank (2019) (EMPIRE LINES Live at PEACE FREQUENCIES, St James’s Church, Paxton House)
46 mins; May 28, 2025
Hero’s Head, Richard Hunt (1956) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube, Centre Pompidou)
17 mins; May 14, 2025
Our Island Stories: Ten Walks Through Rural Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire, Corinne Fowler (2024), with Ingrid Pollard (EMPIRE LINES Live at Invasion Ecology)
63 hours 16 mins; April 16, 2025
Furnace Fruit, Karanjit Panesar (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Leeds Art Gallery, British Library)
16 mins; January 23, 2025
Terratypes, Tanoa Sasraku (2022-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x RAMM, ICA)
22 mins; January 09, 2025
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998 (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican, with Shanay Jhaveri, Anita Dube, and Nalini Malani) (2024)
40 mins; December 18, 2024
World Civil War Portraits, Sara Shamma (2015) (EMPIRE LINES Live at PEACE FREQUENCIES, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Museum of Damascus)
33 mins; December 11, 2024
Ancestral Future, Ailton Krenak (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Arika, Tramway)
17 mins; December 05, 2024
I Am in a Pretty Pickle, Steph Huang (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x esea contemporary, Tate Britain)
15 mins; November 28, 2024
It Will End in Tears, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
18 mins; November 20, 2024
M Street, Sylvia Snowden (1978-1997) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube Paris)
13 mins; November 14, 2024
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging, Jessica J. Lee (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Invasion Ecology)
58 mins; November 07, 2024
A Right of an Exile, Kedisha Coakley (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Hepworth Wakefield)
62 hours 21 mins; October 24, 2024
House of Weaving Songs, Dhaqan Collective (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall x Counterpoints Arts, Art Reach)
81 hours 48 mins; October 10, 2024
Innocence, Permindar Kaur (1993) (EMPIRE LINES x John Hansard Gallery, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2024)
18 mins; September 26, 2024
Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta, El Anatsui (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival 2024)
17 mins; September 12, 2024
Sekondi Locomotive Workshop, Ibrahim Mahama (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Fruitmarket, White Cube)
20 mins; August 29, 2024
Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby, Sequoia Danielle Barnes (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh Art Festival 2024)
21 mins; August 15, 2024
Casa de Maria, Beatriz Milhazes (1992) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate St Ives, Turner Contemporary)
13 mins; July 25, 2024
Avi-Alarm, Hanna Tuulikki (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology)
17 mins; July 11, 2024
The Time is Always Now, Ekow Eshun (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x National Portrait Gallery, The Box)
17 mins; June 26, 2024
Taboo Durag, Paul Maheke (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Mostyn, Glasgow International)
16 mins; June 12, 2024
Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology)
14 mins; May 29, 2024
Twist, LR Vandy (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x October Gallery, Chatham Ropery)
30 mins; May 15, 2024
Melted into the Sun, Saodat Ismailova (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Fondazione In Between Art Film, Venice Biennale)
15 mins; May 01, 2024
Decolonised Structures (Queen Victoria), Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (2022-2023) (EMPIRE LINES x The Serpentine Galleries, Venice Biennale)
25 mins; April 17, 2024
Dreams Have No Titles, Zineb Sedira (2022-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Whitechapel Gallery, Goodman Gallery, Venice Biennale)
17 mins; April 03, 2024
Giolo’s Lament, Pio Abad (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Ashmolean Museum)
18 mins; March 27, 2024
Camera Obscura, Pia Arke (1990) (EMPIRE LINES x John Hansard Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art)
19 mins; March 20, 2024
Medium and Memory, Griselda Pollock (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x HackelBury Fine Art)
21 mins; March 13, 2024
Lost Threads, Lubaina Himid (2021, 2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Holburne Museum, British Textile Biennale)
15 mins; March 06, 2024
The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy (1993-Now) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Radical Ecology)
48 mins; February 28, 2024
Noko Y3 Dzen (There’s Something in the World), Serge Attukwei Clottey (2018-Now) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall)
60 hours 25 mins; February 21, 2024
Habitat, Taloi Havini (2017) (EMPIRE LINES x Artes Mundi 10, National Museum of Wales, Chapter, Mostyn)
18 mins; February 07, 2024
Freud: El Mago de los Sueños (The Wizard of Dreams), Vidas Ilustres Comic Book (1963)
17 mins; January 31, 2024
The Madras College of Arts and Crafts, India (1850-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x The Noble Sage, Brunei Gallery)
13 mins; January 24, 2024
Queer Feet, Osman Yousefzada (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Charleston)
13 mins; January 17, 2024
Learning from Artemisia, Uriel Orlow and Orchestre Jeunes Étoiles des Astres (2019-2020) (EMPIRE LINES x Eden Project)
16 mins; January 10, 2024
White Zombie, Victor Halperin (1932) (EMPIRE LINES x Visions of Haiti, Barbican Cinema)
17 mins; January 05, 2024
The Black Triangle, Armet Francis (1969) (EMPIRE LINES x Autograph)
15 mins; December 27, 2023
Whites Can Dance Too, Kalaf Epalanga, translated by Daniel Hahn (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Kizomba Design Museum, Africa Writes 2023 at the British Library)
15 mins; December 20, 2023
Where Worlds Meet, Maha Ahmed (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Leighton House)
15 mins; December 13, 2023
Arcadia, John Akomfrah (2023) (EMPIRE LINES at 100 x The Box, Sharjah Biennial 15)
13 mins; December 06, 2023
Africa Series, Carrie Mae Weems (1993) (EMPIRE LINES x Kunstmuseum Basel)
13 mins; November 29, 2023
Did You Come Here To Find History?, Nusra Latif Qureshi (2009) (EMPIRE LINES x MK Gallery, The Box)
22 mins; November 22, 2023
Hélène Amouzou: Voyages (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Autograph)
16 mins; November 15, 2023
Against Apartheid, Ashish Ghadiali (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Radical Ecology, KARST)
23 mins; November 08, 2023
And I Have My Own Business In This Skin, Claudette Johnson (1982) (EMPIRE LINES x The Courtauld Gallery)
19 mins; October 25, 2023
Declaration of Independence, Barby Asante (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Art on the Underground)
14 mins; October 18, 2023
Story, Place, Tony Albert (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Sullivan+Strumph, Frieze London)
14 mins; October 11, 2023
Chorus in Rememory of Flight, Julianknxx (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
15 mins; October 04, 2023
Living in the Wake of the Lust for Sugar, Elsa James (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Museum of London Docklands)
15 mins; September 27, 2023
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Fitzwilliam Museum)
26 mins; September 20, 2023
UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s) (EMPIRE LINES x Kettle’s Yard)
17 mins; September 13, 2023
Home is Not a Place, Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson (2021-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x The Photographers’ Gallery)
14 mins; September 06, 2023
What Remains at the End of the Earth?, Imani Jacqueline Brown (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Hayward Gallery)
18 mins; August 30, 2023
Lagos Soundscapes, Emeka Ogboh (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x South London Gallery, Southbank Centre)
25 mins; August 23, 2023
WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts at Japan House London (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x historicity Tokyo)
10 mins; August 17, 2023
Photographs of the Polar Silk Road, Gregor Sailer (2017-2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Natural History Museum)
11 mins; August 16, 2023
Exile is a Hard Job, Nil Yalter (1974-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Ab-Anbar Gallery)
16 mins; August 09, 2023
A History of a City In a Box, Ndidi Dike (2019) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern)
18 mins; August 02, 2023
The Casablanca Art School (1962-1987) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate St Ives)
19 mins; July 19, 2023
Oneness, Shahrzad Ghaffari (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Leighton House)
13 mins; July 13, 2023
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Carrie Mae Weems (1995–1996) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
15 mins; July 12, 2023
Silent Protests, Tewa Barnosa (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Shubbak Festival, The Africa Centre)
10 mins; July 05, 2023
Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman, Vincent van Gogh (1890) (EMPIRE LINES x Van Gogh Museum)
15 mins; June 28, 2023
Barbershop, Hurvin Anderson (2006-2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Hepworth Wakefield)
11 mins; June 21, 2023
Dal Puri Diaspora, Richard Fung (2012) (EMPIRE LINES x Museum of London Docklands)
23 mins; June 14, 2023
Too Loud a Dust, Musquiqui Chihying (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Tabula Rasa Gallery, London Gallery Weekend 2023)
14 mins; June 08, 2023
The Evolution, Paintings for the Temple, Hilma af Klint (1908) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern)
10 mins; May 31, 2023
The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend (20th Century-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Royal Academy)
23 mins; May 25, 2023
The Experiment with the Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby (1768) and Nalini Malani (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x National Gallery, Holburne Museum)
21 mins; May 17, 2023
African Madonna, Ernest Mancoba (1929) (EMPIRE LINES x Cobra Museum of Modern Art)
18 mins; April 19, 2023
Spouts, Ai Weiwei (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Design Museum)
12 mins; April 12, 2023
Red-Figure Hydria of Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ancient Greece (380-360BCE) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum London)
9 mins; April 05, 2023
River Atlas, Law Yuk-Mui (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Two Temple Place and Kakilang)
12 mins; March 29, 2023
Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery (EMPIRE LINES x Rijksmuseum, United Nations)
18 mins; March 22, 2023
Antique French Military Uniform with Kumihimo, Hasegawa Akira (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Japan House London)
9 mins; March 15, 2023
Painting on an Island (Carrera), Peter Doig (2019) (EMPIRE LINES x The Courtauld Gallery)
16 mins; March 02, 2023
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