Art & Design
Sharif Persaud: Have You Ever Had, Autograph ABP: ‘Fake sneezing, gangrene – a fascination with the corporeal’
The autistic artist’s first solo show is the revealing culmination of a three-year project on neurodiversity
Read MoreRadical Figures, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Anxious interrogation of the 21st-century condition’
A collection of works by ten contemporary painters explores themes such as gender discrimination, racism, violence and dislocation
Read More‘Rich history’ of east London’s print trade on display for new exhibition
Rendezvous Projects’ show at Bow’s Nunnery Gallery maps the changes in the industry locally over the 20th century
Read MoreDialogue in the Dark, Space Studios: ‘An hour in total darkness that helps us appreciate different forms of awareness’
A new immersive exhibition on Mare Street enables sighted people to experience what it is like to live with a visual impairment
Read MoreCelia Paul, Victoria Miro Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Sombre yet uplifting gaze into the human condition’
The artist’s eponymous exhibition is an ‘intensely intimate’ collection on ‘grief, time, death and spirituality’
Read MoreDalston Arts Fair is back for its third annual outing
Thirty local artists will exhibit and sell their work for the arts and crafts weekend starting on 30 November
Read MoreInto the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, Barbican Centre: ‘Fascinating insight into culture-shaping places’
The multimedia exhibition looks at the modernist movement through nightlife, from Belle Epoque Paris to Ibadan, Mexico City and Tehran
Read MoreArtemis of the Lea, Amanda Lwin: ‘Elevating human waste into something precious’
The artist’s temporary canalside installation features jugs that serve as both urinals and watering cans
Read MorePeer gallery and Shoreditch Library to launch year-long arts partnership
Peer director says joint programme of exhibitions and workshops is a ‘powerful way to combine arts, culture, community and knowledge’
Read MoreAnna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Bringing sensuality to politics and politics to art’
This retrospective of the Italian-Brazilian artist covers her resistance-themed work of the 60s and 70s to more personal creations from the past 30 years
Read MoreLina Iris Viktor, Autograph ABP, exhibition review: ‘An assertive reinvention of cultural identity’
The Liberian-British artist’s first major solo show in the UK ‘hijacks demeaning portrayals of African identity’
Read MoreAnna Bella Eema, Arcola, review: ‘a ghost story for three bodies with three voices’
UK premiere of Lisa D’Amour’s play is a gripping account of
love, loss and survival
Artist creates immersive schizophrenic experience for new exhibition in Hackney
James Paddock’s PYLON at A-Side B-Side Gallery uses mixed media to take the audience on a journey through an imaginary psychotic episode
Read More2019: A Space odyssey
Hackney stalwart Space Studios’ Mare Street gallery is relocating to Ilford in the autumn. The charity’s chief exec Anna Harding talks about the move, and picks out her personal highlights from the past 16 years
Read MoreExtinction Rebellion: Free six-month display to be unveiled at V&A Museum of Childhood
The exhibition in Bethnal Green, centred on the activist group’s family-friendly work, is part of a wider partnership that will see its designs go on show at the V&A’s Rapid Response gallery
Read MoreJock McFadyen: ‘Painting is artifice, it’s art, and so is the made environment’
The Hackney-based artist, known for his landscapes of east London, on his upcoming turn as curator for the Royal Academy, his own style, and why he quite enjoys painting the same piece again and again
Read MoreHackney artist’s 66-foot mural brightens up star-studded photography studio
Rosie Lom’s colourful wall design at Shoreditch Studios got a nod of approval from Arsenal legend Thierry Henry
Read MoreFourth Plinth artist set for headline summer show at Whitechapel Gallery
Michael Rakowitz’s ongoing effort to recreate artifacts destroyed by war are a major feature of his eponymous exhibition
Read MorePrimary school parents launch art auction to fund green playground
Art for Air, which features more than 100 pieces by prominent artists, will raise money for a scheme to make the school more eco-friendly
Read MoreArtists reshape works by their peers for show in aid of burns survivors
FaceValue3 (Dirty Work), raising money for acid attack survivor Katie Piper’s charity, is on at Jealous East Gallery from 18-28 April
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