20 October 2025

• 6:30 – 7:30 pm

• A talk as part of the Paul Mellon Lecture Series 'Modern, Minimal, Practical, and Social: the Art of Rasheed Araeen' delivered by Courtney J. Martin

• National Gallery, London

By the 1980s, Araeen’s editorial and curatorial endeavours culminated in 'The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-war Britain', supposedly the first major museum exhibition of non-white British artists in Britain. Curated by Araeen at the Hayward Gallery in London, 'The Other Story' served as a compendium of the work of Black artists in the previous decade toward recognition in the British and art publics, such as the abstract painter Frank Bowling. Bowling’s inclusion in the exhibition and Anish Kapoor’s refusal to be a part of it shaped a discourse around what abstract art had come to mean in Britain by the end of the 1980s.