art history – Hackney Citizen

Ninth Street Women, Barbican, book presentation: ‘Rewriting male-dominated art history’

By Gaia Caramazza | Friday 19 July 2019 at 16:52

Pulitzer Prize nominee Mary Gabriel discusses her exploration of the lives of five women who revolutionised modern art

SPACE is the place: we delve into a new book celebrating 50 years of the artistic engine of East London

By Andrew Barnes | Saturday 17 March 2018 at 13:37

Cosey Fanni Tutti at Industrial Records studio, Martello Street, Hackney, ca 1980. Photo: © Industrial Records

SPACE Studios is the subject of a comprehensive new book of essays and history – we throw the spotlight on 10 Martello Street, their Mare Street hub

Through time and SPACE: new time-travelling art show brings history of the Mare Street studios to life

By Andrew Barnes | Friday 19 January 2018 at 12:29

Art world: Bruce Lacey in his SPACE studio on Martello Street in the early 70s. Photograph: Ingeborg Sedgley

‘We were astounded that each and every participant actually had an experience of entering into another reality,’ say creators J&K

Bring on the artichokes! Gillian Riley on Caravaggio, veg and violence

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 12:40

Detail from Giovanna Garzoni's Artichokes in a Chinese dish with rose and strawberries (c. 1650)

In her latest column, our resident food and art historian imagines the painter and GBH enthusiast storming through Hackney