‘Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025’ at ICA London Is a Stark Reminder of What Has — and Hasn’t — Changed
Simon Coates, Observer
August 2025
As is the way with most countries, racism in the U.K. comes in waves. Seventeenth and eighteenth-century colonialism and involvement in the slave trade have bred a particular kind of British entitlement that runs red with discrimination. And, when times are hard, the next wave of racism crashes in, as sure as night follows day. […]