Colour-drenched canvas at Chisenhale Gallery: Rachel Jones say cheeeeese review
The London artist’s first solo show at the East-London exhibition space uses her signature splashes of colour to create an
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Reviews and guides
The essential guide to Victoria Park’s All Points East festival 2022
With All Points East music festival returning to Victoria Park in August 2022, discover all the headliners and acts to
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Where to celebrate this New Year’s Eve in East London
Eat, rave and laugh your way to 2022: We rounded up our favourite local events for this NYE For many
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12 of the jolliest Christmas events in East London 2021
Whether you are the type to start singing Christmas carols and buying gifts in early October or you are more
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Printer’s Paradise: the London Centre for Book Arts
Based in one of London’s fastest-moving tech quarters, the London Centre for Book Arts teaches us that it’s not always
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East London art exhibitions open this spring: from Whitechapel to Chisenhale Gallery [photoessay]
As art exhibitions re-open, we explore the best East London’s galleries have to offer, from performance art to painting to immersive sculptural experiences.
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Encounter Bow: celebrating Bow’s diverse community
With Encounter Bow fast approaching, we chat to the festival’s curator, Moi Tran, about Covid-19, archives and the diverse communities
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Your guide to Black History Month 2021
Black History Month is a time for us all to celebrate and learn about the histories, stories and experiences of
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Art and architecture: Terence Williams Retrospective at Stour Gallery, Old Baths
When approaching 80 Eastway, you would be forgiven for mistaking the graphic 1930s Art Deco façade for a municipal building. Upon closer inspection of the brass plaque on the front, you will learn that in its former life, the listed building was indeed operated by the council, housing the Gainsborough Road Public Baths.
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Culture in the time of Covid: Radical Figures at the Whitechapel Gallery
Art is an important tool to facilitate meaningful discussion, and at a time when issues of representation, instigated in part by the Black Lives Matter movement, are at the fore, Radical Figures reveals unseen perspectives.
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Oodles of poodles at the Victoria Park Dog Show 2019 [photoessay]
The Victoria Park Dog Show is the place to be seen in East London, if you’re a dog. Every year
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‘Raw Materials: Plastics’ exhibition explores the invention of plastic in East London
Not many people know that plastic was invented right here in East London. Well, it was, and Bow Arts has
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