25 August 2021
25 August 2021
1 July 2021
14 September 2020
5 February 2020
Radical Figures: A New Art Movement? – Edward Lucie-Smith
The rather splendid show of new figurative painting, now on view at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, boasts that it is the first event of its kind since the New Spirit in Painting exhibition that made such an impact here in London in the now long-ago 1980s.
15 December 2019
25 September 2019
6 June 2019
20 May 2019
2 April 2019
Queer Spaces: New Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition Opens
Over half of London’s LGBTQ+ venues closed between 2006 and 2016 New exhibition explores queer spaces through contemporary artworks and rare archival material. It asks what defines a ‘queer space’ and questions what the cultural legacy of these under-threat venues is?
2 September 2018
London Art Book Fair 2018 Where Cutting-Edge Publishers Unite
The Whitechapel Gallery will be transformed by over 80 creative and cutting-edge publishers for four days.
31 May 2018
2 January 2018
26 July 2017
21 June 2017
24 April 2017
20 March 2017
Eduardo Paolozzi – Halfway In Halfway Out Whitechapel Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Paolozzi exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery is, for an old stager like me, a bit of a puzzle. There was a time when Paolozzi was a very big deal – one of the major innovators in British art, the destined successor to the first generation of major British Modernists, chief among them Henry Moore.
10 January 2017
Nan Goldin and Marina Abramovic Turn The Camera To Women
Photography and video works drawn from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. go on display at the Whitechapel Gallery 18 January -16 April.
30 December 2016
Guerrilla Girls Launch Pro-Diversity Banner At Whitechapel Gallery
The Guerrilla Girls have been exposing and challenging sexism and racism in the visual arts, politics and culture for over three decades. Now for the first time, the anonymous feminist activist group revisit their 1986 campaign ‘It’s Even Worse in Europe’. In the summer of 2016, the Guerrilla Girls wrote to 383 European museum directors, inviting them […]
20 September 2016
William Kentridge Returns With First London Public Exhibition In Fifteen Years
A major exhibition of work by the South African artist William Kentridge opens at the Whitechapel Gallery on Wednesday. Artlyst was at the press view and highly recommends it as an exhibition not to miss for 2016. The show is titled Thick Time and was curated by the innovative Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick. This will be the artist’s […]