Posts Tagged ‘art’
Frequencies, 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 MorePuppy-dog explosion and vanishing kittens
Our resident food historian touches on a culinary taboo as she ponders the proliferation of dog-walkers during the pandemic
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 MoreHackney’s creativity and resilience during pandemic to be celebrated in new book
Life Under Lockdown will feature work from numerous local artists and photographers
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 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 MoreHackney Museum asks residents for lockdown memorabilia for upcoming exhibition
‘Collecting Covid’ will go on display next year, full of local stories from the pandemic
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’
Read MoreDesde el Salón, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘A welcome antidote to the anxiety of variants’
Artist Sol Colero’s curation of works usually confined to the offices of an insurance company makes you think again about the world of corporate art
Read MoreLondon’s water
Our resident food historian on how the capital went from epidemics caused by faulty sewage to enjoying one of the safest tipples around
Read MoreHackney-born filmmaker tackles gentrification in Whitechapel Gallery show
Ayo Akingbade looks at housing in her home borough for her new solo exhibition
Read MoreJean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Art of the people, not the academy’
The French painter’s ‘anarchic rage against the establishment’ will touch a chord with many’
Read MoreLockdown lunches and crowded picnics
Our resident food historian on outdoor get-togethers, and why it is still the grub that ‘makes it all worthwhile’
Read MoreAnne Hardy: Rising Heat, Maureen Paley: ‘A piece of waste becomes a diaphanous pink ghost’
The first show at the gallery’s new Studio M is ‘well worth a visit’
Read MoreYellow on a plate
Our resident food historian transports us to the warm south through colour, Van Gogh and a drop of absinthe
Read MoreBlue is the theme of an absorbing online exhibition
The Victoria Miro gallery has gathered together work by 19 artists in which the colour features
Read MorePoetry: Covetous Covid’s Crimes by Zac Eisner
The 11-year-old Hackney resident, who has been home-schooled for a year because his mum is shielding, shares a piece to ‘raise your spirits’
Read MorePEERing into the world of lockdown art
Artist Savinder Bual on her exhibition at Hoxton’s PEER gallery, and why the first lockdown made her think of a flatfish
Read MoreComic – Welcome Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Artist Francisco de la Mora with his view on LTNs, informed by his upbringing in Mexico City
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