Naseem Khan obituary

Cultural pioneer who brought ethnic minority arts into the mainstreamIn 1976 Naseem Khan, who has died of cancer aged 77, wrote a report, The Arts Britain Ignores, that highlighted the burgeoning arts activity among Britain’s ethnic communities – at that time uncharted territory. She advocated a more inclusive approach towards work by British black and Asian artists that was ignored by the cultural establishment, so that it could be brought into the mainstream. In arguing that Britai