-Akinkugbe is a brilliant new writer and thinker challenging art history. This book is urgent, essential, accessible and it needs to be on every art history reading list' Bernardine Evaristo-A sparkling debut. Bold, eloquent, personal and clear-eyed, Alayo Akinkugbe is a major new voice in writing about art, museums and culture. This book will shift your frames of reference, expand your canvas, and give you hope for the future - changing how you look at art while also making you look again at your ways of seeing- Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums-Thorough, accessible, essential- Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men'To explore a history of Black communities across centuries of art is a love letter to the practice, a gift of knowledge and an ode to those who-s creative expressions give us much to be inspired by today' Sofia Akel, cultural historian and founderSince the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored. In Reframing Blackness