Art & Design
‘Super creative’ Hackney Baha’i community put on exhibition
Light of Unity art show, which honours the birth of the faith’s prophet Baha’u’llah, opens at Hackney Central’s A-side B-side Gallery tonight at 7pm
Read MoreLucinda Rogers to exhibit drawings of a changing Ridley Road Market
The London artist and campaigner took to the streets to depict scenes many fear will be lost to gentrification, the overarching topic of the exhibition
Read MoreMartin Puryear @ Parasol Unit, exhibition review: ‘slavery’s tumour-like presence’
In time for October and Black History Month, Martin Puryear’s large-scale, impeccably crafted forms present a unique perspective on African American history and its emotional themes
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for October
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features Hackney-based video games, sex shops, a Düsseldorf School legend and more
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for September
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
Read MoreWoodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition
Former evacuee and civil servant Peter Gosnell was ‘determined’ that curators did not find out about his registered blindness during the height of his artistic pursuits in the sixties and seventies
Read MoreSafari Festival returns to Shoreditch on 12 August to celebrate ‘the comic world’s freaks and one-offs’
Forget superheroes – this free festival showcases those truly making ‘new waves in contemporary comics’
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for August
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features sci-fi, Italian family dynamics and “all manner of erotic mania”…
Read MoreHackney Museum goes Pop with new radical printmaking exhibition
Warhol to Walker: American prints from pop art to today traces the movement’s influence on Hackney’s political posters
Read MoreHomerton Hospital’s surprising commitment to art continues – with a little bit of politics
We meet Shaun Caton, the man in charge of Homerton Hospital’s exhibitions (including latest Underbelly Britain) as well as its huge art collection and groundbreaking creative therapies
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for July
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month
Read MoreAlice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits
A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture
Read MoreTop self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor
The 41-year old ‘unknown’ thought beating the likes of Tracey Emin to the Ruth Borchard Prize and its £10,000 winnings was “a practical joke” at first
Read MoreEast 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
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