Alvaro Barrington on hip-hop, carnival and his Tate show

Before we talk, Alvaro Barrington gives me a tour of his expansive studio in Whitechapel, east London. It stands on the site of one of the country’s first free schools for the poor, founded in 1860. As we climb the stairs to the top floor of an ornate two-story neo-Jacobian building that was once an … Read more