Somaya Critchlow Puts Black Nudes Among Old Masters

When the English artist Somaya Critchlow was at art school around a decade ago, she once showed a tutor a painting she had made of her cousins sitting on a sofa. When the teacher likened it to the glam-realist style of David Hockney, Critchlow was taken aback. “This sucks,” she recalled thinking. “That’s not what … Read more