Posts by Sarah Birch
Jock McFadyen: Tourist without a Guidebook, Royal Academy: ‘Even if you think you know them, these paintings invite you to reflect anew’
The Academy has collected 20 of the Scottish artist’s London artworks to celebrate his 70th birthday
Read MoreUnmasked, Perishable Rush, BSMT Space, exhibition review: ‘Smiles and scars in evocative solo show’
The Dutch street artist has taken his work off walls across Europe for his first UK gallery outing in Dalston
Read MoreDexter McLean: Portraits from Tower Avenue, Jamaica, Autograph, review: ‘Take the time to savour these images’
The photographer’s award-winning series shows the vitality of ‘resilience and resourcefulness’
Read More‘Colourful promise with nothing to back it up’: Artist Simon the Last takes aim at high-tech with light show in an empty shop
Window display in Hoxton featuring over 3,600 LEDs ‘explores the ways in which our material existences have been warped’
Read More‘I wanted to write about women making the city their own’: Author Gemma Seltzer on how the streets of East London influenced her new book
The writer spent the pandemic wandering the capital, and has used the experience to craft a ‘magnetic collection of short stories’
Read MoreNoguchi, Barbican Art Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Blurring the line between representational and abstract’
Major retrospective on the work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi is ‘breathtakingly diverse’
Read MoreVictoria Park, Gemma Reeves, book review: ‘Subtle picture of a place that could in some senses be anywhere’
The author’s debut novel uses 12 loosely-connected stories to build a portrait of the area’s complex history
Read MoreAddress Book, Neil Bartlett, book review: ‘A treat for all readers, gay and straight alike’
The author and theatre director’s ‘poignant’ fifth novel explores the gay experience through history
Read MoreThe Roles We Play, Sabba Khan, book review: ‘Laden with paradox and rich in nuance’
This genre-defying volume by an East London architect is a ‘meditation on the collective trauma of immigration’
Read MoreHyangmok Baik: Forgotten By Us, Beers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The more one looks, the more one sees’
The Korean painter’s solo show is ‘full of colour and off-beat imagery’
Read MoreCommon Ground, Naomi Ishiguro, book review: ‘A modern-day Howards End’
The Stoke Newington novelist’s ‘highly readable’ debut is ‘destined to challenge not a few facile assumptions’
Read More‘Phantasmagoric imagery’ on show at Royal Drawing School’s annual student exhibition
Over 550 drawings are on display at the school in Shoreditch
Read MoreDesde el Salón, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘A welcome antidote to the anxiety of variants’
Artist Sol Colero’s curation of works usually confined to the offices of an insurance company makes you think again about the world of corporate art
Read MoreOne Hundred Years, Jenny Lewis, book review: ‘Life going by in a richly textured community’
The photographer’s portraits of unique local characters cover a century of Hackney’s ‘passion and fortitude’
Read MoreJean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Art of the people, not the academy’
The French painter’s ‘anarchic rage against the establishment’ will touch a chord with many’
Read MoreNational turbulence, local tranquility: Decoding Hackney’s by-election results
An analysis of the borough’s political landscape following 6 May polls in four wards
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glasses, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘A great way to put your own eyewear to use’
The local author turns his lens to the instruments that help him and an estimated four billion others navigate the world
Read MoreAnne Hardy: Rising Heat, Maureen Paley: ‘A piece of waste becomes a diaphanous pink ghost’
The first show at the gallery’s new Studio M is ‘well worth a visit’
Read MorePeterdown, David Annand, book review: ‘Captivating parable about how we understand place’
The local author’s 600-page debut novel elevates the abstruse business of council planning into an ‘engrossing’ prod at life’s big questions
Read MorePhotographs by young refugees light up Shoreditch for month-long exhibition
Autograph gallery repurposes electronic billboard on Old Street for illuminating #HackneyIsHome project
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