'Lay back, keep quiet and think of what made Britain so great’

Fig.1
Sonia Boyce
‘Lay back, keep quiet and think of what made Britain so great’ 1986
Charcoal, pastel and watercolour on paper;four parts
each 152.5 x 65 cm
© Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/09autumn/fisher.shtm

The importance of Paris's Centre de Pompidou exhibit Magiciens de la Terre and London's Hayward Gallery exhibit The Other Story.

• First World and Third World art together on equal footing
• Black and Asian British artists in a prominent public space
• Problem of "curiousity-driven" attendees in elite white
  
• Problem of exoticizing Third World artists