Art & Design
Artist Vlatka Horvat set for first UK solo show at PEER gallery – with a year’s worth of work to be displayed over eight weeks
The Croatian-born artist’s By Hand, On Foot exhibition will feature sculpture, photography, film, and more
Read More‘Colourful promise with nothing to back it up’: Artist Simon the Last takes aim at high-tech with light show in an empty shop
Window display in Hoxton featuring over 3,600 LEDs ‘explores the ways in which our material existences have been warped’
Read MoreCenturies-old stained glass windows discovered at Homerton Hospital after ‘decades in the dark’
The ‘truly amazing’ roundels have been restored and put on display after being unearthed in a store room
Read MoreThompson Hall unveiled as Autograph gallery’s first artist-in-residence
The painter will take up the three-month position in Shoreditch in the new year
Read More‘We’d play music on cassettes, roll spliffs using Rizla and chew gum whilst on speed’: Artist James Talon brings the rave to Hackney Road
The artist’s nostalgic solo show, Sweet Lord, is on display at the Old Bank Vault this month
Read MoreOut of this world! Hackney primary school pupils flex their creativity for UFO arts project
Artist Tom Pearman teams up with the Rio Cinema to offer children an other-worldly experience
Read MoreTen artists deliver ‘remarkable’ response to the Covid pandemic in major new exhibition at Autograph gallery
Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other contains ‘experimental and deeply personal approaches’ to the outbreak
Read MoreThe house of Medici and its fascination with pear paintings
Our resident food historian on the humble pear
Read MoreMajor artwork inspired by an encounter in Dalston acquired by V&A
Artist Kehinde Wiley painted Melissa Thompson after the pair met at Ridley Road Market
Read MoreNoguchi, Barbican Art Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Blurring the line between representational and abstract’
Major retrospective on the work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi is ‘breathtakingly diverse’
Read MorePawtraiture
Our resident food historian Gillian Riley on Manet, Monet and mousers
Read More‘I wanted to change my life’: Local artist draws Hackney after taking up illustration when Covid hit
Becky Moriarty found plenty of inspiration in the borough after quitting her graphic design job – and even connected with her Irish roots along the way
Read MoreArtist Lubna Chowdhary branches out for new exhibition in Hoxton
The famed ceramicist brings wooden sculptures along with her trademark tiles to PEER gallery
Read MoreFrequencies, Oscar Murillo, exhibition review: ‘Conceptual art at its finest’
The Turner Prize-winner recently unloaded 40,000 canvasses showcasing children’s doodles at his former school in Hackney, and the result was ‘absorbing’
Read MoreHomerton Hospital’s first public exhibition in two years brings ‘feel-good factor’
Local artist Jane Smith’s ‘vibrant’ depictions of Hackney will soon grace the hospital’s main corridor
Read MoreHyangmok Baik: Forgotten By Us, Beers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The more one looks, the more one sees’
The Korean painter’s solo show is ‘full of colour and off-beat imagery’
Read More‘It has helped me move on’: Artworks by brain injury survivors on display at Autograph gallery
Common Threads features textile pieces by 23 artists from charity Headway’s Submit to Love Studios
Read MoreJordy Kerwick: I’ll Come Back Again, Union Gallery: ‘Dream-like imagery mixed with personal symbolism’
The artist’s show in Bethnal Green ‘leaves one wondering what exotic stories lurk deep in our minds’
Read More‘Phantasmagoric imagery’ on show at Royal Drawing School’s annual student exhibition
Over 550 drawings are on display at the school in Shoreditch
Read MoreArtist turns construction debris into sculptures for Chisenhale exhibition
Yu Ji’s use of rubble and plant matter ‘uncovers the hidden vitality of the mundane or disregarded’
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