Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Whitechapel Gallery
22 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Whitechapel Gallery has a distinguished history. Founded in 1901 to present ‘the finest art of the world for the people of the East End, London’,
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Terry Smith – Mirror2 at Whitechapel Gallery
20 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Terry Smith – Mirror2 at Whitechapel Gallery will be a live artwork preoccupied by isolation, repetition, and routine – human… Read More
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career.
10 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery has just opened the first major UK retrospective of the artist Nicole Eisenman (b.1965, France, lives and works in the USA) coinciding with Frieze Week.
Whitechapel Gallery announces Future Plans 23/24 Programme.
23 May 2023 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery has announced future plans and its programme for 2023/24. Under the new directorship of Gilane Tawadros they have reaffirmed… Read More
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in early May
29 April 2023 • Tabish Khan
Apocalyptic installations, abstract art, slavery, portraits and a church.
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
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in June
29 May 2022 • Tabish Khan
Demons, Impressionism, climate change, studios and roses.
Gilane Tawadros Appointed New Director of Whitechapel Gallery, London.
16 May 2022 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery has announced that Gilane Tawadros has been appointed the new Director of Whitechapel Gallery. Tawadros is a curator… Read More
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
The Top 5 Painting Exhibitions to see in London
26 September 2021 • Tabish Khan
Cities, mountains, faceless figures, war and birds.
3 major London galleries collaborate with artist Theaster Gates on a multi-venue presentation.
28 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Serpentine have jointly announced a multi-venue presentation dedicated to artist Theaster Gates’s (b.1973, USA) clay practice for 2021-22.
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.
Emma Talbot celebrates International Women’s Day on Picadilly Lights.
1 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Emma Talbot, the London-based artist of sensuous visual poems becomes the next CIRCA artist, presenting a new body of four… Read More
Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy
6 December 2020 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery will present Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, a major retrospective of the work of Eileen Agar (1899-1991). The exhibition is the largest exhibition of Agar’s work to date.
What’s Wrong with Art? The Art speaks for itself
13 October 2020 • Tabish Khan
Is this just another barrier to accessing art.
Whitechapel Gallery is opening to the public on Tuesday 14th July
29 June 2020 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery is opening to the public on Tuesday 14th July 2020 with new Health & Safety measures in place to prioritise the welfare of staff and visitors. The spring exhibition programme, including Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Carlos Bunga’s monumental environment and Spain’s most important collection of contemporary art will be extended through the summer.
Whitechapel Gallery partners with 20 organisations to launch a global season of artists’ film online
22 April 2020 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery is bringing film, video and animation from around the world to audiences at home as part of its Artists’ Film International (AFI) programme. During our precarious times, every Tuesday a film selected by one of 20 global partners launches on Whitechapel Gallery’s website.
Five shortlisted artists announced for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2019 – 2021
14 October 2019 • Mark Westall
The Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara have announced the five shortlisted artists for the 8th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Allison Katz, Katie Schwab, Tai Shani, Emma Talbot and Hannah Tuulikki.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in August
4 August 2019 • Tabish Khan
Destruction of heritage, explosions of colour, Manga, dark matter, writing, moon meditation and giant headphones.
Whitechapel Gallery and the Authors’ Club launch eight new awards celebrating visual arts publishing
25 January 2019 • Mark Westall
The Richard Schlagman Art Book Awards launched today, 25th January 2019, to celebrate excellence in the world’s English-language arts publishing scene
Rachel Whiteread has been awarded the sixth Art Icon award
9 January 2019 • Mark Westall
The Whitechapel Gallery has just announced that Rachel Whiteread is the sixth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award in partnership with Swarovski.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London between Christmas and New Year
23 December 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top Art Exhibitions to see in London’ include Addiction, skulls, forensics, armour, darkness, design, and architecture.
Whitechapel Gallery ground-floor gallery transformed into vast swimming pool
26 September 2018 • Mark Westall
hitechapel Gallery has today unveiled the transformation of its ground-floor gallery into a vast, eerily abandoned public swimming pool. The Whitechapel Pool (2018) is a large-scale site-specific installation created by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset.
Elmgreen & Dragset talk to us about their upcoming show ‘This is How We Bite Our Tongue’ and some other stuff
17 September 2018 • Mark Westall
We met in a gay club in Copenhagen, called After Dark. They later went bankrupt. We’re still keeping our heads above water.
