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Modern Art is Rubbish: Gavin Turk on making a packet – literally – for the Skip Gallery

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 23 November 2017 at 11:58
"For me rubbish is really important": Gavin Turk with Transubstantiation at the Skip Gallery. Photograph: Ali Tollervey

“I look back at the rubbish and think “shit, that rubbish can tell us the story of everything!”

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for December

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 November 2017 at 19:13
Countryfile: a still from Max Colson's digital animation The Green and Pleasant Land. Image courtesy the artist/arebyte

In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond

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Not-So-Still Life tackles elderly loneliness with drawing classes

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 November 2017 at 10:14
Green fingers: the next Not-So-Still Life will focus on Botanical Drawing

All are welcome at this new social enterprise, with the next session taking place in Clapton this Saturday 11 November

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Banner Repeater, Hackney’s train platform art gallery, to celebrate new deal with fundraising party

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 November 2017 at 17:13
Sending a signal: Banner Repeater Art Space at Hackney Downs Station. Photograph: Pink Water/Clunie Reid

The former shop at Hackney Downs station has inked an agreement with Arriva and TfL that secures its existence until 2020 at least

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for November

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 25 October 2017 at 17:02
'Configurations of riot police, small fires and scattered locals' in Stan Douglas' Mare Street. © Stan Douglas, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London

In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond

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‘Super creative’ Hackney Baha’i community put on exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 October 2017 at 16:43

Light of Unity art show, which honours the birth of the faith’s prophet Baha’u’llah, opens at Hackney Central’s A-side B-side Gallery tonight at 7pm

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Lucinda Rogers to exhibit drawings of a changing Ridley Road Market

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 13 October 2017 at 16:51
'There's a lot more here to see': Lucinda Rogers' Fruit mountain at the entrance to Ridley Road. © Lucinda Rogers

The London artist and campaigner took to the streets to depict scenes many fear will be lost to gentrification, the overarching topic of the exhibition

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Martin Puryear @ Parasol Unit, exhibition review: ‘slavery’s tumour-like presence’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 September 2017 at 14:32
"I too am free": Martin Puryear's Big Phrygian (2010 - 2014). Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © Martin Puryear, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

In time for October and Black History Month, Martin Puryear’s large-scale, impeccably crafted forms present a unique perspective on African American history and its emotional themes

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for October

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 21 September 2017 at 10:30
A virtual view from Hackney Wick of the Olympic Park, as found in Lawrence Lek's Delirious New Wick. © Lawrence Lek

Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features Hackney-based video games, sex shops, a Düsseldorf School legend and more

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for September

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 25 August 2017 at 16:35
"Patented grinning style": Joan Cornella's characters' frozen cheeriness masks hilarious brutality. Image courtesy of the artist

In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond

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Woodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 August 2017 at 17:13
Peter Gosnell in front of two of his pastel works. Photographs: Andrew Barnes

Former evacuee and civil servant Peter Gosnell was ‘determined’ that curators did not find out about his registered blindness during the height of his artistic pursuits in the sixties and seventies

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Safari Festival returns to Shoreditch on 12 August to celebrate ‘the comic world’s freaks and one-offs’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 4 August 2017 at 16:39
Attendees at last year’s Safari Festival filled Protein Studios en masse. Photograph: Breakdown Press.

Forget superheroes – this free festival showcases those truly making ‘new waves in contemporary comics’

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for August

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 July 2017 at 16:02
"From intricate ink drawings to block-colour sculptures": a pair of works from Making Faces. Photograph: Headway East London

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”…

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Hackney Museum goes Pop with new radical printmaking exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 July 2017 at 16:15
Soup of the day: Hackney Museum workers hang their Warhol. Photograph: Hackney Museum

Warhol to Walker: American prints from pop art to today traces the movement’s influence on Hackney’s political posters

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Homerton Hospital’s surprising commitment to art continues – with a little bit of politics

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 July 2017 at 11:41
Therapeutic: a view of Homerton's art room

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

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for July

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 June 2017 at 17:58
Detail from Russian in Venice I, 2005, Monotype, (c) Stephen Chambers, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month

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Alice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 May 2017 at 10:49
"Nonchalant confidence and pride": Pregnant Maria by Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London © The Estate of Alice Neel

A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture

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Top self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 19 May 2017 at 15:48
A triumphant Benjamin Ogbebor, his family, and Dr Robert Travers (2nd from left.)

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

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for June

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 May 2017 at 17:49
'Vibrant hues': Polyptyque Sassetta, by Monique Frydman. Photograph: O. Houada

In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond

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Maeve Brennan, The Drift @ Chisenhale Gallery, review – Lebanon’s objects of desire

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 13:25
A shot from Maeve Brennan’s The Drift (2017). Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery; Spike Island; The Whitworth, The University of Manchester; and Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore. Courtesy of the artist.

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

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