Art & Design
Street artist to stage ‘dream gig’ for lyric-inspired solo show
Dscreet’s ‘Top 40 Covers’, to be exhibited at BSMT Gallery in Stoke Newington, is a tribute to his favourite songsmiths
Read MoreUnreal Estates, Dalston, exhibition review: ‘Dreamy excitement and sheer dread’
Amanda Lwin’s immersive show, inside a working estate agency on Kingsland High Street, ‘feeds on house-moving emotions’
Read MoreNo Paine no gain: New exhibition to bring ‘feel-good factor’ to Homerton Hospital
Neville Paine’s experimental landscapes and collages will brighten the walls of the Education Centre from October
Read More‘Shaping the capital’: Local doors unlocked for Open House festival
The world’s largest architecture event returns this month – giving the public a peak behind hundreds of keyholes
Read MoreSPACE exploration: Art studios to open up for 50th anniversary
More than 200 creatives across London will welcome the public into their workshops for a one-off weekend spectacular this month
Read MoreArtist teams up with East End schoolchildren for new Whitechapel Gallery show
Mikhail Karikis’ No Ordinary Protest is the gallery’s 10th children’s commission
Read MoreSmile Please, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘a refreshing take on modern urban life’
Simon English’s new solo show features never-before-seen sculptures made from objects picked up around London
Read MoreFlowers Gallery to host John Loker retrospective to mark artist’s 80th birthday – 48 years after it put on his first solo show
Loker, along with David Hockney, was part of the so-called ‘Bradford Mafia’ – a group of artists who first rose to prominence in the 1960s
Read More‘The scene in east London is a jungle’: Street artist speaks out after unveiling Clapton murals
Giacomo ‘RUN’ Bufarini says people are often surprised his work is self-funded as street art becomes a ‘lucrative tourist attraction’
Read More‘The whole community was a client!’: Hackney architects up for prestigious Stirling Prize for Jewish cemetery expansion
Waugh Thistleton co-founder talks to the Citizen about the nomination, how the project has given him a new outlook on burials, and what it’s like to live in a timber home
Read MoreWhen we hear the words, ‘black man’, what comes to mind?
Ethnicity monitoring records something different: It does not relate to visible appearance but to people’s self image in relation to their own cultural origins (Met Police)
Read MoreLola Flash: ‘beauty for me is an idea of being proud and strong’
Herein lies the purpose of my work, to enable marginalized folk a way of seeing the glory of themselves
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for July 2018
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top local art exhibitions this month
Read MoreComic – Closing Down / Coming Soon (a Hackney thinking game)
Our artist Francisco de la Mora puts a local spin on the ‘Where’s Wally?’ genre
Read MoreKollier din-Bangura interview: ‘society is not ready for a black guy to be in a gallery or to own a gallery’
We met with the sculptor and longstanding Dalston cultural entrepreneur, for a discussion covering black enterprise, gentrification and the loss of creative communities
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for June 2018
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond – from the textile trade to art in a skip
Read MoreDevotion – A Portrait of Loretta, by Franklyn Rodgers: review
The large-scale portraits, which include a commissioned photograph of Doreen Lawrence, recognise the significance of close-knit relationships, such as the one between mother and son
Read MoreComic – Sueño de migrantes
Our artist Francisco de la Mora gives us his take on the Windrush scandal…
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for May 2018
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
Read MoreAffordable Art Fair returns to Hampstead to champion the best in emerging & established creative talent
3D scans, the paintings of an ex-Premier League footballer and a modern take on the Chinese Terracotta Army will all feature at the four-day fair next month
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