Art & Design
Hackney artists to stand in the General Election
Two Hackney artists are the latest to announce they are running for Parliament. We speak to them about their political ambitions
Read MoreBob and Roberta Smith: 'Wealthy kids don’t tend to make terribly interesting art'
The Leytonstone artist running for Michael Gove’s seat in the general election outlines his views on art in schools
Read MoreArt review: 100 Painters of Tomorrow at Beers Contemporary Gallery
Last chance this week to see exhibition that aims to give a snapshot of the best new painters from across the world
Read MoreMajor exhibition about abstract art opens this week at Whitechapel Gallery
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015 looks at how abstract art relates to politics and society. We spoke to Sophie McKinlay, the gallery’s Acting Head of Exhibitions, about what visitors can expect
Read MoreHackney photographer Stephen Gill publishes two new books
Two very different topics – weddings and pigeons – are the subjects of Stephen Gill’s most recent photo books
Read MoreMove to change arts funding could ‘penalise’ grassroots, says charity
Fears that diverting arts council funding away from London will harm small organisations the most
Read MoreWhat does the future hold for East End galleries?
Shoreditch’s Kemistry Gallery has announced it will soon be the latest casualty of the area’s spiralling rents. Nick Hagan explores a gallery scene in flux
Read MoreConstructing Worlds – review: architecture that compels to silence
Barbican’s winter photography exhibition captures 80 years of modern architecture in all its diversity
Read MoreRepairs leave Bow Mission mural damaged
Early work by iconic muralist Ray Walker has been dissected by two girders
Read MoreDarren Coffield: Psycho – review
Darren Coffield’s Warhol-inspired works often fail to live up to their own high aspirations
Read MoreWinterville gets underway in Victoria Park
Cabaret, club nights, rides and street food, there’s pretty much something for everyone down at Winterville
Read MoreArt to the Streets of East London
INIVA announces a window presentation and new performance entitled Makhuba by South African artist Lerato Shadi
Read MoreEast London artist paints UK's tallest mural to highlight crisis in affordable housing
Mural painted as ‘symbol of solidarity’ with New Era tenants and Focus E15 mums
Read MoreLa Grace Du Ciel at Gallery Extreme
A homage to Grace Jones at a new East London art gallery
Read MoreEverlasting Lives exhibition at St Joseph's hospice
Photojournalist Eléonore de Bonneval asked patients at St Joseph’s Hospice to choose possessions that tell intimate stories about their lives. Here three patients reveal three of their choices
Read MoreWalead Beshty brings rubbish installation to Barbican Centre
A year’s worth of detritus and one of the earliest photographic techniques form the basis of Walead Beshty’s installation at the Barbican centre
Read MoreGallery on Well Street to host Chinese Whispers exhibition
Dutch and British artists to explore how nationality affects their artistic practice in last big exhibition at the Karin Janssen Project Space
Read MoreBlack Chronicles II exhibition review: Excavating black history
Portraits of the first black people to be photographed in Britain, unseen for 120 years, feature in a new exhibition
Read MoreExhibition review – (detail) at Transition Gallery
Work from more than 100 international artists is displayed in miniature at London Fields-based gallery
Read MoreShoreditch Town Hall exhibition tells stories of migration through art
Sudanese artist Anwar Elsamani tells his story in photographs for an exhibition that sheds light on the experiences of East London’s migrant residents
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