In conversation with Emma Talbot – how can we challenge classical power?
5 June 2022 • Irene Machetti
Emma Talbot is the recipient of the 8th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a biennial prize… Read More
Tag: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Iwona Blazwick OBE to step down as Director of Whitechapel Gallery
5 January 2022 • Mark Westall
Iwona Blazwick has announced that after twenty years at the helm she will be stepping down in April 2022. Blazwick… Read More
Emma Talbot travels to Italy for 6-month residency organised by the Collezione Maramotti
1 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti are delighted to announce that Emma Talbot (b. 1969, UK), winner of the 8th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2019-2022), will travel to Italy in June 2021 to begin her six-month residency organised by the Collezione Maramotti.
Whitechapel Gallery to receive £206,332 from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
2 April 2021 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery in London has received a grant of £206,332 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen.
11 Art exhibitions to get excited about in 2021
4 January 2021 • Mark Westall
What a year 2020 was! Glad to get that over but seems like the beginning of 2021 is going to… Read More
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium surveys new directions in figurative painting
18 November 2019 • Mark Westall
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium brings together a new generation of artists who represent the body in radical ways to tell stories and explore vital social concerns.
Whitechapel Gallery presents the first Anna Maria Maiolino UK retrospective
10 October 2019 • Staff
Anna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary is the first UK retrospective of the pioneering artist and chronicles sixty years of political, personal and cultural shifts with 150 works, many on display in the UK for the first time.
Electronic Superhighway
19 February 2016 • Staff
In 1974, Nam June Paik described the potential of a communications network enabled through technology as the Electronic Superhighway. Today the Internet is a vast system of bottomless pits containing everything from cat memes to Ancient Greek theatre.
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30 June 2015 • Mark Westall
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Review: Sarah Lucas: SITUATION
4 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Racy imagery, tongue-in-cheek euphemisms, feminist interpretations and breath-taking sexualistion of everyday objects in Lucas’ work, is all brought together in a stunning retrospective of her entire collection, enabling “Situation” to bring something to the table for every visitor.
The Whitechapel Gallery launches ON&BY LUC TUYMANS
5 September 2013 • Mark Westall
The first of the new ON&BY book series, at a special event with Luc Tuymans on 14th September 2013 during The London Art Book Fair.
GOSEE: Lebanese artist, actor and playwright, Rabih Mroue presents ‘The Pixelated Revolution’ @Whitechapel Gallery
15 July 2013 • VC Maurer
“Syrians are filming their own death”, are the first lines of the ‘Pixelated Revolution’ performance. A type of performance piece which aims to study the various tips and directions on mobile phone documentation, as shared via the medium of Facebook and other virtual communication tools during the first year’s events of the Syrian revolution. Come early to catch the live talk with the artist!
ASPEN AT THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY- RUNS: 11th September 2012 – 3rd March 2013
11 September 2012 • Staff
Aspen Magazine was one of the first multi-media magazines. It was about art and itself an art piece. Even the boxes that the magazines came in were like mini pieces of modern architecture.
Giuseppe Penone at Haunch of Venison Private View Thursday September 6th 2012
6 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Giuseppe Penone is regarded as one of the most important artists of his generation; his career spans over 40 years, beginning in the late 1960s.
Bethan Huws at the Whitechapel Gallery Review by Rachel Bennett
2 March 2011 • Mark Westall
Bethan Huws’ installation at the Whitechapel Gallery erects walls which simultaneously obscure and elucidate the work of Marcel Duchamp, and,… Read More
Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 3: Current Disturbance Opening friday 17th December
17 December 2010 • Mark Westall
17 December 2010 – 6 March 2011 Gallery 7 Current Disturbance is a room-filling environment made from stacked wire cages,… Read More
GO SEE: Alice Neel -Painted Truths Throught to September 17th 2010 at Whitechapel Art Gallery
7 July 2010 • Mark Westall
Her portraits stand out for their psychological insight as much as for their vivid sense of colour and animated brushwork.
The Red Velvet Curtain Cult VOYEUR A late night event at The Whitechapel Art Gallery presents Thursday 3rd December 2009
3 December 2009 • Mark Westall
For their Fourth installment at the Whitechapel Art Gallery the Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents ‘Voyeur’. An evening of gazing,… Read More
Whitechapel to Reopen with Site Specific Artwork by Goshka Macuga that Focuses on Guernica
30 March 2009 • Mark Westall
After Pablo Picasso, woven by Mme J de la Baume Dürrbach, The Guernica Tapestry, 1955, Wool, 305 x 671 cm…. Read More
The London Paper art tips for 2009
6 January 2009 • Mark Westall
The London Paper picks their shows,openings for 09 icluding the new Whitechapel Art Gallery, Mark Wallinger, Anish Kapoor,Picasso and Many… Read More