East End exhibitions – five of the best for August
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features sci-fi, Italian family dynamics and “all manner of erotic mania”…
Hackney Museum goes Pop with new radical printmaking exhibition
Warhol to Walker: American prints from pop art to today traces the movement’s influence on Hackney’s political posters
Homerton Hospital’s surprising commitment to art continues – with a little bit of politics
We meet Shaun Caton, the man in charge of Homerton Hospital’s exhibitions (including latest Underbelly Britain) as well as its huge art collection and groundbreaking creative therapies
East End exhibitions – five of the best for July
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month
Alice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits
A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture
Top self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor
The 41-year old ‘unknown’ thought beating the likes of Tracey Emin to the Ruth Borchard Prize and its £10,000 winnings was “a practical joke” at first
East End exhibitions – five of the best for June
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
Maeve Brennan, The Drift @ Chisenhale Gallery, review – Lebanon’s objects of desire
In this new film installation currently showing at the Chisenhale Gallery, the artist and filmmaker’s camera pens a love letter to painstakingly reconstructed Lebanese artefacts
Quick draw: Turner winner Jeremy Deller hands out ‘golden paintbrush’ prize in art competition
Raucous Shoreditch live art competition Art Battle III combined competitive drawing with music and cabaret for a unique night out
Art beyond borders: Affordable Art Fair returns in celebration of the art world’s internationalism
The fair will bring together more international galleries than ever before to celebrate the relationship between art and travel