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EMPIRE LINES
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Children of the Manston US Air Force Servicemen Print Series, Richard Birch (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Turner Contemporary)
21 mins; February 16, 2023
(Re)Introducing: EMPIRE LINES
1 min; February 14, 2023
Kiti Cha Enzi (Swahili Chair of Power), East Africa (19th Century)
15 mins; January 04, 2023
Thabo, Thabiso and Blackx, Araminta de Clermont (2010)
22 mins; December 22, 2022
We Came Here, Harold Offeh (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Van Gogh House Interview)
18 mins; December 08, 2022
Indigenous Intermediary Geua in ‘Photographs Mainly of Port Moresby’, George Lawes, (1880s)
17 mins; November 24, 2022
The Luxborough Galley on Fire, 25 June 1727, John Cleveley the Elder (c. 18th Century)
16 mins; November 10, 2022
Vinyl Record of Drive My Car, The Beatles (1965)
17 mins; October 27, 2022
My Reality is Different, Nalini Malani (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x National Gallery, Holburne Museum Interview)
9 mins; October 20, 2022
The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (8th Century)
12 mins; October 13, 2022
Queen Anne Wine Bottle, Shiraz (1708)
13 mins; September 29, 2022
Self Evident, Ingrid Pollard (1992) (EMPIRE LINES x Turner Contemporary Interview)
12 mins; September 15, 2022
Batchelor Girl's Room, Althea McNish/Studio Nyali (1966/2022) (EMPIRE LINES x William Morris Gallery Interview)
18 mins; September 01, 2022
Murals, Malangatana Ngwenya (1967, 1987) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern and The Africa Centre Interview)
42 mins; August 19, 2022
Memorial to Lost Words at the Lahore Museum, Bani Abidi (2016/2018)
16 mins; August 11, 2022
The Dark Dancer, Balachandra Rajan (1958)
17 mins; August 04, 2022
Colonial Days: We Demand Colonies For Poland Poster, Maritime and Colonial League (1938)
16 mins; July 21, 2022
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire (18th Century)
19 mins; July 07, 2022
Ivory Statue of St. Michael the Archangel, Basilica of Guadalupe (17th Century)
17 mins; June 23, 2022
Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, John Greenwood (c. 1752-1758)
15 mins; June 09, 2022
Map of Endowments for 'Colonial' University, New Zealand (1873)
16 mins; May 26, 2022
Painting of Silver Labourers in Potosí, Bolivia, from Translation of the History of the New World (c. 17th Century)
17 mins; May 12, 2022
The Tragedy of Mustapha, Fulke Greville (1609) and Roger Boyle (1665)
15 mins; April 28, 2022
Pierced Jade Scholar's Screen, China (19th Century) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum Interview)
24 mins; April 13, 2022
Mining the Museum at the Maryland Historical Society, Fred Wilson (1992-1993)
17 mins; April 07, 2022
Old Britain Castles Ceramic Plate, Johnson Brothers (1930)
20 mins; March 24, 2022
Standard Willow Ceramic Plate, Josiah Spode (1800-1820)
16 mins; March 10, 2022
Water Splotch from the Bay of Bengal, Ship Diary of Levi Savage (1852-1853)
15 mins; February 24, 2022
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Elizabeth Hamilton (1796)
21 mins; February 10, 2022
Possession Island (Abstraction), Gordon Bennett (1991)
18 mins; January 27, 2022
a preponderance of aboriginal blood, Judy Watson (2005)
17 mins; January 13, 2022
Teak Column of al-Qalis, Mecca (6th Century)
18 mins; December 30, 2021
Linen Market, Dominica, Agostino Brunias (c. 1780)
15 mins; December 16, 2021
Cashew Nuts for the Mozambican Revolution Poster, Alexandre Milhafre (c. 1979) (EMPIRE LINES x SOAS Interview)
39 mins; December 02, 2021
Fifth Edition of Les Mille et Une Nuit (The Thousand and One Nights), Antoine Galland (1729)
16 mins; November 18, 2021
Knotted Pile Carpet, Lahore Central Jail (c. 1880)
18 mins; November 04, 2021
'White Buddhist' Statue of Theosophist Henry Steel Olcott, Colombo (c. 1970s)
14 mins; October 21, 2021
Sun City, Artists United Against Apartheid (1985)
15 mins; October 07, 2021
View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City, Cristóbal de Villalpando (c. 1695)
18 mins; September 23, 2021
Uzun Kemer Ottoman Aqueduct Bridge, Istanbul (c. 1560s)
19 mins; September 09, 2021
Dubai Kathu Pattu (Dubai Letter Song), S. A. Jameel (1977)
15 mins; August 26, 2021
Indian Elephant Chess Piece (c. 17th-18th Century)
15 mins; August 12, 2021
A New Map of the Island of Barbados, Philip Lea and John Seller (1686)
14 mins; July 29, 2021
Mexican Enconchado of the Virgin of Guadalupe (c. 1700s)
16 mins; July 15, 2021
Four Ports Panorama, Carlos Julião (c. 1780s)
16 mins; July 01, 2021
European Photographs in the Illustrated Weekly of India, Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy (1959-1960)
17 mins; June 17, 2021
Vatcha Adaran Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Bombay (1881)
16 mins; June 03, 2021
Yugoslavia Pavilion for the Paris Expo, Josip Seissel (1937)
16 mins; May 20, 2021
Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital (in Hiroshima), Kobayashi Kiyochika (1895)
13 mins; May 06, 2021
Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Producer Jelena Sofronijevic (EMPIRE LINES x Retrospect Live Event)
47 mins; April 22, 2021
The Magnificent Seven (Port of Spain), Trinidad (c. 1902-1910)
17 mins; April 08, 2021
Two Islamic Bronzes with Al-Mulk Inscription (c. 10th Century)
12 mins; March 25, 2021
Self-Portrait of the Artist in Macau, George Chinnery (c. 1844)
15 mins; March 11, 2021
Replica of the Kudara Kannon, Niiro Chunosuke (1931-1932)
13 mins; February 25, 2021
Ceylonese Tea Pickers, Edward Atkinson Hornel (c. 1907)
14 mins; February 11, 2021
Azulejos for a Portuguese Church Altar (17th Century)
13 mins; January 28, 2021
The Czartoryski Polonaise Carpet (17th Century)
14 mins; January 14, 2021
Cartoons for The Workers’ Herald, James Christie Scott (1920s)
15 mins; December 24, 2020
The Tribes of Israel (Jacob and his Twelve Sons), Francisco de Zurbarán (1640s)
14 mins; December 10, 2020
Bengali Colcha with Triumphal Arch of the Flemish (Mid 17th Century)
15 mins; November 26, 2020
Electra House, London (1902)
12 mins; November 12, 2020
La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
14 mins; October 29, 2020
John Bull’s Other Island, George Bernard Shaw (1904)
14 mins; October 15, 2020
The Great Mosque(s) of Djenné, Mali
13 mins; October 01, 2020
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