Africa, the African diaspora and the conventions of their representation have helped anchor thought and aesthetics in Europe and the world down the ages. Africa has perhaps been overshadowed or sanitised in the official narratives of the so-called "West". Nevertheless, its presence and ideas endure in the art and archives that bear witness to our connected pasts and their varied constructions across time and place. The 2023 anniversary event will continue to reflect on the audacity of memory, imagination, and aspiration, with which cultural producers have inscribed African and African diasporic bodies, politics, and cultural styles in Europe and the worlds that it touched. Black Portraiture – revisited in Paris -- will meditate on the endurance of Blackness amid a perilous present shaped by controversies over migration and nativism.   The anniversary event of Enduring Blackness will examine the historical authenticity and rich array of Black imagery and its connections in the...