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101

Barbershop, Hurvin Anderson (2006-2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Hepworth Wakefield)

102

Dal Puri Diaspora, Richard Fung (2012) (EMPIRE LINES x Museum of London Docklands)

103

Too Loud a Dust, Musquiqui Chihying (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Tabula Rasa Gallery, London Gallery Weekend 2023)

104

The Evolution, Paintings for the Temple, Hilma af Klint (1908) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate Modern)

105

The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend (20th Century-Now) (EMPIRE LINES x Royal Academy)

106

The Experiment with the Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby (1768) and Nalini Malani (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x National Gallery, Holburne Museum)

107

African Madonna, Ernest Mancoba (1929) (EMPIRE LINES x Cobra Museum of Modern Art)

108

Spouts, Ai Weiwei (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Design Museum)

109

Red-Figure Hydria of Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ancient Greece (380-360BCE) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum London)

110

River Atlas, Law Yuk-Mui (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Kakilang, Two Temple Place)

111

Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery (EMPIRE LINES x Rijksmuseum, United Nations)

112

Antique French Military Uniform with Kumihimo, Hasegawa Akira (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Japan House London)

113

Painting on an Island (Carrera), Peter Doig (2019) (EMPIRE LINES x Courtauld)

114

Children of the Manston US Air Force Servicemen Print Series, Richard Birch (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Turner Contemporary)

115

(Re)Introducing: EMPIRE LINES

116

Kiti Cha Enzi (Swahili Chair of Power), East Africa (19th Century)

117

Thabo, Thabiso and Blackx, Araminta de Clermont (2010)

118

We Came Here, Harold Offeh (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Van Gogh House)

119

Indigenous Intermediary Geua in ‘Photographs Mainly of Port Moresby’, George Lawes, (1880s)

120

The Luxborough Galley on Fire, 25 June 1727, John Cleveley the Elder (c. 18th Century)

121

Vinyl Record of Drive My Car, The Beatles (1965)

122

My Reality is Different, Nalini Malani (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Holburne Museum, National Gallery)

123

The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (8th Century)

124

Queen Anne Wine Bottle, Shiraz (1708)

125

Self Evident, Ingrid Pollard (1992) (EMPIRE LINES x Turner Contemporary)

126

Batchelor Girl's Room, Althea McNish/Studio Nyali (1966/2022) (EMPIRE LINES x William Morris Gallery)

127

Murals, Malangatana Ngwenya (1967, 1987) (EMPIRE LINES x Africa Centre, Tate Modern)

128

Memorial to Lost Words at the Lahore Museum, Bani Abidi (2016/2018)

129

The Dark Dancer, Balachandra Rajan (1958)

130

Colonial Days: We Demand Colonies For Poland Poster, Maritime and Colonial League (1938)

131

Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire (18th Century)

132

Ivory Statue of St. Michael the Archangel, Basilica of Guadalupe (17th Century)

133

Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, John Greenwood (c. 1752-1758)

134

Map of Endowments for 'Colonial' University, New Zealand (1873)

135

Painting of Silver Labourers in Potosí, Bolivia, from Translation of the History of the New World (c. 17th Century)

136

The Tragedy of Mustapha, Fulke Greville (1609) and Roger Boyle (1665)

137

Pierced Jade Scholar's Screen, China (19th Century) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum London)

138

Mining the Museum at the Maryland Historical Society, Fred Wilson (1992-1993)

139

Old Britain Castles Ceramic Plate, Johnson Brothers (1930)

140

Standard Willow Ceramic Plate, Josiah Spode (1800-1820)

141

Water Splotch from the Bay of Bengal, Ship Diary of Levi Savage (1852-1853)

142

Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Elizabeth Hamilton (1796)

143

Possession Island (Abstraction), Gordon Bennett (1991)

144

a preponderance of aboriginal blood, Judy Watson (2005)

145

Teak Column of al-Qalis, Mecca (6th Century)

146

Linen Market, Dominica, Agostino Brunias (c. 1780)

147

Cashew Nuts for the Mozambican Revolution Poster, Alexandre Milhafre (c. 1979) (EMPIRE LINES x Brunei Gallery, SOAS)

148

Fifth Edition of Les Mille et Une Nuit (The Thousand and One Nights), Antoine Galland (1729)

149

Knotted Pile Carpet, Lahore Central Jail (c. 1880)

150

'White Buddhist' Statue of Theosophist Henry Steel Olcott, Colombo (c. 1970s)

151

Sun City, Artists United Against Apartheid (1985)

152

View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City, Cristóbal de Villalpando (c. 1695)

153

Uzun Kemer Ottoman Aqueduct Bridge, Istanbul (c. 1560s)

154

Dubai Kathu Pattu (Dubai Letter Song), S. A. Jameel (1977)

155

Indian Elephant Chess Piece (c. 17th-18th Century)

156

A New Map of the Island of Barbados, Philip Lea and John Seller (1686)

157

Mexican Enconchado of the Virgin of Guadalupe (c. 1700s)

158

Four Ports Panorama, Carlos Julião (c. 1780s)

159

European Photographs in the Illustrated Weekly of India, Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy (1959-1960)

160

Vatcha Adaran Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Bombay (1881)

161

Yugoslavia Pavilion for the Paris Expo, Josip Seissel (1937)

162

Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital (in Hiroshima), Kobayashi Kiyochika (1895)

163

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Producer Jelena Sofronijevic (EMPIRE LINES x Retrospect Live Event)

164

The Magnificent Seven (Port of Spain), Trinidad (c. 1902-1910)

165

Two Islamic Bronzes with Al-Mulk Inscription (c. 10th Century)

166

Self-Portrait of the Artist in Macau, George Chinnery (c. 1844)

167

Replica of the Kudara Kannon, Niiro Chunosuke (1931-1932)

168

Ceylonese Tea Pickers, Edward Atkinson Hornel (c. 1907)

169

Azulejos for a Portuguese Church Altar (17th Century)

170

The Czartoryski Polonaise Carpet (17th Century)

171

Cartoons for The Workers’ Herald, James Christie Scott (1920s)

172

The Tribes of Israel (Jacob and his Twelve Sons), Francisco de Zurbarán (1640s)

173

Bengali Colcha with Triumphal Arch of the Flemish (Mid 17th Century)

174

Electra House, London (1902)

175

La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)

176

John Bull’s Other Island, George Bernard Shaw (1904)

177

The Great Mosque(s) of Djenné, Mali