Alayo Akingube is an art historian and founder of the Instagram page @ablackhistoryofart which highlights overlooked Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history.
In this episode, Pearl Lam (林明珠) and Alayo explore themes such as gender, racism, feminism and everything in between.
The episode is an open, honest and at times deeply personal conversation about what it means to be a black artist in 2023.
Alayo Akingube is an art historian and founder of the hugely successful Instagram page @ablackhistoryofart which highlights overlooked Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers from art history. Alayo Akinkugbe is interested in the way that Black people are represented in European art, as well as promoting learning about Black artists throughout art history.
Behind the bright purple hair, petite frame and eclectic style in fashion, Pearl Lam (林明珠) is also a fierce entrepreneur, an advocate for freedom of speech and a champion of undiscovered talent and, to some, a rebel. But who does Pearl Lam herself think she is? In the first ever episode of the Pearl Lam Podcast, Pearl answers all of this and more as she sits down for a candid chat with the renowned journalist and former BBC arts correspondent, Rebecca Jones.
Rebecca Jones is a broadcaster who went freelance in 2023 after nearly thirty years at the BBC, as Arts Correspondent and Chief News Presenter on BBC1, BBC2, BBC World and the BBC News Channel. As the BBC’s arts correspondent for more than two decades she was responsible for delivering arts coverage across radio, television and the BBC website, the largest news website in the English language.
