Art & Design
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
Read MoreMaeve 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
Read MoreQuick 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
Read MoreArt 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
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for May
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features recycled oils, Alice Neel, and a pair of shows based around identity and the self
Read MoreThe big unlock: a look at the Geffrye Museum’s development plans
Director Sonia Solicari chatted to the Citizen about the Museum of the Home’s upcoming new basement level, reading rooms, learning pavilion and more
Read MoreGlaze craze: new hub shows that ceramics trend doesn’t have feet of clay
The popularity of Turning Earth’s new E10 studio is just another example of the growing number of us who are drawn to the potter’s wheel
Read MoreElger Esser, Morgenland @ Parasol Unit: celebrating the ‘heavenly luminosity’ of Lebanon and beyond
The German artist uses his hazily romantic photography to add a fresh perspective to portrayals of Middle Eastern landscapes
Read MoreRachel Whiteread’s Place (Village) added to Museum of Childhood
The piece, which explores architecture through the ages in Whiteread’s inimitable style, joins the Bethnal Green museum’s permanent collection
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for April
Our regular look at the best exhibitions to be found in and around the borough in the coming month ranges from Japanese architecture to Lebanese film – with a dose of London ‘realness’
Read MoreEduardo Paolozzi @ Whitechapel Gallery, review: Mixed media magnificence
The Scottish-born artist’s work covered an astonishing range of styles and media – our reviewer visited Whitechapel to take it all in
Read MoreRichard Mosse, Incoming at Barbican Curve: a shattering view of humanity and the inhumane
In the wake of the current migrant crisis, Richard Mosse’s new exhibition at the Barbican Curve gallery shares a new look at refugees, ‘through the eye of a missile’
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Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for February
In our new recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
Read MoreDo Ho Suh, Passage/s @ Victoria Miro Gallery review – ‘unquestionably masterful technique’
The show evokes both the transience of an artist’s nomadic life and the intimacy of domestic calm
Read MoreThe Barbican: who lives on an estate like this?
Photographer gives a rare insight into what it is like to live on the iconic estate
Read MoreImages of a ‘brutal’ legacy abound in Simon Phipps’ new tome
Concrete buildings are an undeniable part of London’s landscape that have been ignored for too long, argues the sculptor
Read MoreKembra Pfahler, Capital Improvements, review: ‘schlocky warnings and stark illustrations of current moment’
Political art by US firebrand challenges the orthodoxy of ‘coolness’ with raucous energy and sly humour
Read More‘That’s the way to do it!’ Shoreditch gallery radically reworks seaside puppet show
Artists Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart bring out the sinister edge of the popular children’s show that some claim makes light of domestic violence
Read MorePortraits of black Victorian women projected onto side of Newington Green church
After Dark project pays tribute to pioneering women whose names and stories have been lost to history
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