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Art & Design

Grayson Perry on how to be an artist

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 16 March 2016 at 10:19

The artist made an appearance at the University of East London last month to give advice to students about cracking the art world

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Hackney WickED art prize won by 'erosion painter'

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 March 2016 at 17:03

Mick Dean praised for ‘revealing the essence of otherwise typical local streets and waterway landscapes’ in his art

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Red Africa: exhibition explores an overlooked cultural exhange

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 February 2016 at 10:00

Artists respond to relationships between African countries and the Soviet Union at the newly-reopened Calvert 22 gallery

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Head of the Boxer: paintings by Taro Qureshi at Oxford House

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 15 February 2016 at 10:00

East London artist pulls no punches with his exhibition of abstract artwork at Oxford House

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Get the picture: 'Brockley' by Tim Stoner

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 February 2016 at 10:00

A painting by the artist Tim Stoner is the featured artwork of this month’s column

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Get the Picture: Harun Farocki – Parallel I-IV (2012-2014)

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 20 January 2016 at 10:00

As part of a regular series, Giuseppe Marasco takes a close look at a work of art on display in East London. This month it’s an installation by avant-garde artist Harun Farocki charting the evolution of computer game graphics

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Women: New Portraits exhibition by Annie Leibovitz opens this week in East London

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 11 January 2016 at 11:23

Wapping Hydraulic Power Station to host exhibition comprising old and newly-commissioned work by the celebrated photographer

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Get the picture: 'Library Looting' by Willem Weismann

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 11 December 2015 at 10:00

The East End Review focuses on a single work of art on display in East London

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Tube workers show station mastery with Out of Uniform exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 4 December 2015 at 17:03

View art by London Underground employees in an empty office turned gallery next to Leytonstone Underground

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Stik's missing 'community mural' discovered on sale in West London

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 16 November 2015 at 15:14

Street artist furious over ‘destruction and commercial exploitation’ of mural painted with local children in Polish city of Gdansk

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Phoebe Unwin, Wilkinson gallery: art review – paintings with a slow mystery

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 November 2015 at 13:31

 Painter’s latest collection uses a highly layered style resembling early cameraless photography

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Re-Defining Beauty at Leyden Gallery: taking a fresh look at the naked male form

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 3 November 2015 at 15:51

Life drawing group Nude for Thought wants the male nude to regain its stature in contemporary art

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Art review – The Poor Door: 'a mini-Dismaland'

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 October 2015 at 17:05

Activist artists take on the housing crisis with exhibition at Hackney Downs Studios

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How the Berlin Wall became a catalyst for creativity

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 7 October 2015 at 10:00

After the Fall at Red Gallery revisits the unique art and dance music scene of post-Wall Berlin

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Art Licks Weekend returns to champion independent gallery scene

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 2 October 2015 at 14:22

Arebyte, Doomed and Transition Gallery are among the galleries taking part in three-day festival across East and South London

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Saved! Rich Mix is no longer under threat of closure

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 29 September 2015 at 15:54

Future of arts organisation secured after financial dispute with Tower Hamlets Council is resolved

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'Renaissance man' Stik raises unprecedented £50,000 for Homerton Hospital

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 25 September 2015 at 12:05

Street artist is mobbed by fans during print sale in aid of NHS hospital’s art services

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Artist plans to leave 365 paintings on the streets during a year

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 23 September 2015 at 10:00

Public encouraged to spot, take home and tweet about paintings as part of guerilla art project

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Dance of death on London Fields mourns state of the arts

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 22 September 2015 at 14:36

Choreographer Florence Peake creates a performance using the old Celtic practice of ‘keening’ to lament the state of modern culture

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Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor break bread in Spitalfields for refugees

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 18 September 2015 at 11:37

Museum of immigration and diversity makes ‘symbolic gesture’ during the artists’ march through London

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