NewsContemporary art
'Clay made me': Theaster Gates to receive series of major London shows around his love of ceramics
The Chicago-based artist will design the 2022 Serpentine Pavillion
BlogThe Insiders
Why artist Eileen Agar’s 'womb magic' speaks to our times
While a major retrospective of her work has just opened at the Whitechapel Gallery, her feminist influence can be seen in a range of exhibitions across London
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From a chilling show on Arctic culture to Polly Morgan's gorgeously repellent serpentine sculptures
ReviewBooks
Bryan Robertson: an engrossing book on a brilliant—but forgotten—maverick curator
This is the first publication about the man who put London's Whitechapel Gallery on the international map, but never gained the recognition he deserved
PreviewNalini Malani
'The past is being weaponised': Nalini Malani's anti-fascist animations come to the Whitechapel Gallery
Eighty-eight of the artist’s iPad drawings will be projected across the gallery's walls for her first UK solo show
BlogBook Club
What has the Whitechapel Gallery chief Iwona Blazwick been reading during lockdown?
The London-based curator has been perusing publications on science fiction, avant-garde cabarets and all things witchy
ReviewBooks
Revamped art book prize wants to become the Oscars of arts publications—is it succeeding?
A year on from its announcement, we look at whether the Richard Schlagman Art Book Awards is meeting its ambitions
InterviewExhibitions
Tschabalala Self: 'what information is needed for one’s body to become gendered and racialised?'
The US artist’s colourful, tactile works that mix printmaking, painting and fabric are political without being ponderous
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Moveable feasts and brisk bidding at Whitechapel's Art Icon gala
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Lucian Freud's stunning self-portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts to King Tut's treasures at the Saatchi Gallery
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Michael Rakowitz’s recreations of bombed artefacts at the Whitechapel Gallery, to Faith Ringgold’s story quilts at the Serpentine Gallery
PreviewExhibitions
Michael Rakowitz remakes works destroyed by Isis for first UK retrospective
Recreations of lost Assyrian reliefs will be on show in Whitechapel Gallery exhibition
PreviewExhibitions
Out of time? London’s recent queer past comes under the spotlight at the Whitechapel Gallery
A new exhibition examines how the community has been affected by rapid development and gentrification in the UK capital
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Diane Arbus's intimate portraits of street life at the Hayward Gallery to a window into the future at the Whitechapel Gallery
NewsSalvator Mundi
Simon Fujiwara builds mini museum for Leonardo's Salvator Mundi at the Whitechapel in London
The original painting is never shown, only copies and projections are displayed
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Rachel Whiteread: Art Icon
Artist honoured as the Whitechapel Gallery's Art Icon as she returns to the East End
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Condo’s gathering of 52 galleries to a last chance to take a dip into Elmgreen & Dragset’s world at the Whitechapel Gallery
NewsExhibitions
Sweet on Europe: Ulla von Brandenburg to re-stage exhibition of European confectionery, 45 years on
Show at Whitechapel Gallery in London was held in 1973 to mark the UK's entry to the common market
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery
NewsExhibitions
Elmgreen & Dragset get first major UK survey at Whitechapel Gallery
Exhibition during Frieze week spans 20 years of the artists' career and will include a major new commission
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Kindred collage spirits John Stezaker and Georgie Hopton talk the dark side of the art form
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Books, trees and live birds: Mark Dion's new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Crystals and contemplation: Mona Hatoum celebrated as Whitechapel Gallery’s 2018 Art Icon
ArchiveFrieze
Despite the war of words, UK-Russia shows go ahead
But some exhibitions have been cancelled as political stand-off continues
ArchiveRichard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle: now’s the time to be-weave
Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Gallery and Bowdoin are showing the textile artist’s works
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Hilary Weston: Grimm in Florida
The importance of meditation, mirages and tuning out.
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Wilhelm Sasnal: Home is where the art is
Wilhelm Sasnal on how his native Poland provides the inspiration for his work on canvas and celluloid
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Thomas Struth: “Photographs reveal people’s inner agenda”
On the eve of his solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Struth talks about society, the family and the gaze
ArchiveCurators
Interview with Achim Borchardt-Hume, new chief curator for Whitechapel
Borchardt-Hume on history, community and leaving the Tate
ArchiveWhitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery accused of “self-censorship”
Lenders to a Hans Bellmer exhibition say works were withdrawn from display for fear of causing offence
ArchiveWhitechapel Gallery
News from London: Whitechapel gallery celebrates its centenary with a new director while Michael Landy has a breakdown in Marble Arch
Meanwhile, Tracey Emin pushes up the bids in Islington, and there are rumblings at the Royal Academy
ArchiveSaatchi Gallery
London News: A revolutionary row at Saatchi as changes come to the Turbine Hall, Whitechapel and Wapping
Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern
ArchiveIwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick on her time with Tate and the future of Whitechapel
The number two position at Tate Modern might satisfy most curators but Blazwick has given it up to direct the Whitechapel Art Gallery
ArchiveExhibitions
German season in London
Rosemarie Trockel, Andreas Gursky and Stephen Balkenhol all show new work
ArchiveWomen Artists
Women artists provide alternative view at the Whitechapel
“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December