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July 2024

  • Red swirling tentacles … split obliteration 2024, Dominique White, from Dominique White: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

    Woven throughout this compelling collection of sculptures from the Max Mara prizewinner is a ferrous thread of hooks and spikes that drags the cruel history of slavery to the surface

June 2024

  • Untitled, 1989, by Gavin Jantjes, in which an African mask and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Avignon float in a midnight blue space, connected by a ghostly white line.

    Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective 1970-2023 review – fierce and subtle

    From post-pop art to late-flowering expressionism, the South African artist is one of his country’s most significant, and this huge survey shows off his extraordinary range

February 2024

  • Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles at Whitechapel Gallery., Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 14 Feb 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (14347357k)
A tango performance set against a ballroom backdrop reconstructs a scene from Ettore Scola's ground-breaking film Le Bal (1983) - Le Bal (Dreams Have No Titles), 2022 - 'Dreams Have No Titles' by French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Galler. Originally conceived for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale - this is the UK premiere. Encompassing performance, music, dance, installation and film, the exhibition unfolds as a series of immersive sets and runs from 15 February - 12 May 2024.
Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles at Whitechapel Gallery., Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 14 Feb 2024

    Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles review – magic moments in the bar that can take you anywhere

    The French Algerian artist keeps us suspended between the real and the fictive, past and present, as we go on a romp through cinematic classics

October 2023

  • Section of Nicole Eisenman’s painting The Triumph of Poverty, 2009.

    Nicole Eisenman: What Happened; Re/Sisters; El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon – review

    Three new exhibitions encompass Eisenman’s wild and satirical paintings, poignant reactions to environmental ruin and an exquisite transformation of the Turbine Hall

June 2023

  • So profound … still from Threshold to the Kingdom, 2000, by Mark Wallinger, in the Life Is More Important Than Art. That’s Why Art Matters, Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Life Is More Important Than Art review – banality turns into poetry

    From snaps of car parks and train platforms to an operatic film showing people arriving at an airport, this show reveals that art is a particular way of looking at life

February 2023

  • Alice Neel, self-portrait, 1980

    Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle; Action, Gesture, Paint – review

    The American artist puts her sitters at such ease that, one way or another, they reveal all in a superbly curated show of her life’s work

September 2022

  • Hetain Patel’s Trinity, 2021.

    Go with the flow: the artists changing the face of movement on film

    A new exhibition of video art encompasses sign language kung fu, caregiving as choreography and the fluidity of gender and tradition

May 2022

  • Gilane Tawadros, pictured at the British pavilion during the Venice Bennale in Apri

    Gilane Tawadros appointed director of Whitechapel Gallery

    Curator and writer will become one of few women of colour to lead big UK arts institution when she takes up post in October

February 2022

  • Gordon Parks
Untitled, New York, New York
(Helen Frankenthaler), 1957

    A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020 review – congealing palettes, fading light and magic

  • Notation 2017, Mequitta Ahuja.

    Empty shops could be studios for next Bacon or Hirst, says leading curator

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top left: the Sara Cultural Centre; Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Farbige Abstufung (1939); Jean Dubuffet, Garden with Melitaea; the Serpentine Pavilion 2021; Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon, Whitechapel Gallery.

    Best culture 2021
    The best art and architecture of 2021 – the year the galleries reopened

    As the galleries reopened, Jean Dubuffet was recast as an incendiary prophet, Poussin revealed his raunchy side – and a giant Swedish ‘plyscraper’ showed the miracle of wood. Our critics rank the highlights of 2021

September 2021

  • Whitechapel Gallery preview of their Autumn exhibitions., Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 27 Sep 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (12471315am) Chorus, 2016 - Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon - Whitechapel Gallery's previews thei Autumn exhibitions. Whitechapel Gallery preview of their Autumn exhibitions., Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK - 27 Sep 2021

    From a cookie jar to couplets and cocaine – Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon review

  • Paulina Olowska, À la Galcante, 2015. Olje på lerret med collageelementer, 245 x 392 cm. © Paulina Olowska. Christen Sveaas’ Kunststiftelse

    Yoko Ono: Mend Piece for London; This Is the Night Mail – review

May 2021

  • ‘Hackney didn’t feel like my home any more’ ... Ayo Akingbade.

    ‘I tend to do the opposite of what people like’: unstoppable film-maker Ayo Akingbade

    As a young black woman in a white-dominated industry, the film-maker has faced huge obstacles. But her enigmatic, uplifting works about housing estates and gentrification are now winning awards worldwide
  • Eileen Agar in her studio, 1977

    Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy review – a fish’n’chips surrealist

    She shocked pre-war Britain with a hat made of seafood, covered a plaster head in giraffe hide and created dream-like boxes of corals and shellfish. Eileen Agar had some commendably wild notions
  • Agar wearing Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse
1936
Photograph
Private Collection
©Estate of Eileen Agar/Bridgeman Images

    Eileen Agar: the reluctant surrealist

    Agar’s singular collages, sculptures and paintings tell their own lyrical story in an eagerly awaited show opening later this month

March 2021

  • Yinka Shonibare in his London studio.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Yinka Shonibare: ‘You don’t want the next generation to be full of hate'

  • Larry Achiampong, Iwona Blazwick, Ai Weiwei, Alex Jones and Andy Zaltzman.

    Culture in peril
    'We needed to rescue the nation from despair': culture's year of Covid

January 2021

  • ‘Journey of discovery’ … documentary maker Mike Dibb, centre, with John Berger. A new Whitechapel retrospective traces his influence.

    Lorca, Hockney, Byatt, Berger – how Mike Dibb got the greats to open up

    He’s revered for shooting Ways of Seeing with John Berger, but Mike Dibb has made films about all the giants of culture – as well as Wimbledon tennis balls. He looks back on a dazzling career

October 2020

  • Kai Althoff Goes With Bernard Leach at the Whitechapel Gallery.

    Kai Althoff Goes With Bernard Leach; Nalini Malani: Can You Hear Me? – reviews

    The provocative German painter plumps for quantity over clarity, while the Indian artist stuns with her animations
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