Art review – Jazz by Thierry Noir: instrumental street artist comes to East London
Graffiti artist famed for painting the Berlin Wall is back in East London with a new exhibition about another rebellious art form: jazz
Art and design
Exhibition charts the punk history of Woodberry Down
Ex-squatters take on the regeneration of the Woodberry Down Estate
Appeal for artists to paint Lea Bridge Road mural
Park authority wants to initiate ‘community rejuvenation project’ to transform graffitied underpass
Born to RUN: street artist becomes a political animal
Street artist RUN is showing how the recent election result can serve as artistic inspiration
Food in Art – book review: a peek inside the great larder of art history
Food historian Gillian Riley looks at gastronomy in art down the centuries in her new highly illustrated book
Stratford group Assemble is first collective to receive Turner Prize nomination
Project that transformed a street of neglected terraced houses in Liverpool singled out by judges
Hackney WickED art festival is cancelled
Organisers to re-think the festival due to rising costs and the changing nature of Hackney Wick
East London Painting Prize shortlist announced
23 East London artists will be vying for the annual prize when their work goes on display in Wapping later this month
INIVA Gallery evening courses begin with A Revisionist History of Art 1946-2015
Five-week programme offers an introduction to art history, covering topics from identity politics to institutional frameworks
Nurse from St Joseph's Hospice scoops top photography award
Amateur snapper beats competition from 20,000 entries to win International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition
Mary Barnes: Boo-Bah – art review
Mary Barnes became a successful painter following therapy for schizophrenia in the 1960s. A new exhibition looks at a crucial five-year period in her work
Sex Shop exhibition to open this month
Transition Gallery is to be decked out with dildos and fetish objects for Sex Shop exhibition
Bob and Roberta Smith: 'Wealthy kids don’t tend to make terribly interesting art'
The Leytonstone artist running for Michael Gove’s seat in the general election outlines his views on art in schools
The White Building/Lea River Park – review
Hackney Wick’s offbeat White Building has all the hallmarks of a sensitive Olympic legacy, but the possible scrapping of the Lea River Park walkway suggests that petty politics not community is the driving force
Olympic Park’s former artist in residence to deal with disillusionment
Neville Gabie’s next project will ‘explore how far away we might have moved from the original spirit of the Games’
The Olympic Park – review
The Velodrome, the Copper Box, the Energy Centre: some fine buildings will grace London 2012. But tawdry compromise is never far away…