Not-So-Still Life tackles elderly loneliness with drawing classes
All are welcome at this new social enterprise, with the next session taking place in Clapton this Saturday 11 November
Art & Design
Banner Repeater, Hackney’s train platform art gallery, to celebrate new deal with fundraising party
The former shop at Hackney Downs station has inked an agreement with Arriva and TfL that secures its existence until 2020 at least
East End exhibitions – five of the best for November
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
‘Super creative’ Hackney Baha’i community put on exhibition
Light of Unity art show, which honours the birth of the faith’s prophet Baha’u’llah, opens at Hackney Central’s A-side B-side Gallery tonight at 7pm
Lucinda Rogers to exhibit drawings of a changing Ridley Road Market
The London artist and campaigner took to the streets to depict scenes many fear will be lost to gentrification, the overarching topic of the exhibition
Martin Puryear @ Parasol Unit, exhibition review: ‘slavery’s tumour-like presence’
In time for October and Black History Month, Martin Puryear’s large-scale, impeccably crafted forms present a unique perspective on African American history and its emotional themes
East End exhibitions – five of the best for October
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features Hackney-based video games, sex shops, a Düsseldorf School legend and more
East End exhibitions – five of the best for September
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
Woodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition
Former evacuee and civil servant Peter Gosnell was ‘determined’ that curators did not find out about his registered blindness during the height of his artistic pursuits in the sixties and seventies
Safari Festival returns to Shoreditch on 12 August to celebrate ‘the comic world’s freaks and one-offs’
Forget superheroes – this free festival showcases those truly making ‘new waves in contemporary comics’
East End exhibitions – five of the best for August
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features sci-fi, Italian family dynamics and “all manner of erotic mania”…
Hackney Museum goes Pop with new radical printmaking exhibition
Warhol to Walker: American prints from pop art to today traces the movement’s influence on Hackney’s political posters
Homerton Hospital’s surprising commitment to art continues – with a little bit of politics
We meet Shaun Caton, the man in charge of Homerton Hospital’s exhibitions (including latest Underbelly Britain) as well as its huge art collection and groundbreaking creative therapies
East End exhibitions – five of the best for July
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month
Alice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits
A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture
Top self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor
The 41-year old ‘unknown’ thought beating the likes of Tracey Emin to the Ruth Borchard Prize and its £10,000 winnings was “a practical joke” at first