Queens of the Undead – Black history brought up to date
Kimathi Donkor’s exhibition explores African and Carribean history as well as racial tensions today
Art & Design
London Fields benefits from design boost
New initiative aims to put the creative hotspot on the global design map
A very Hackney WickED weekend
Despite the rain, Hackney WickED’s excursion to Red Market was a resounding success
London Design Week – Ceramics in the City exhibition at Geffrye Museum
From delicate porcelain to earthy stoneware, the Geffrye Museum’s exhibition is sure to delight pottery enthusiasts
Making it – the London Design Festival
The London Design Festival features many Hackney-based studios and designer-makers
Freeze frame fantasies – Still at Transition
New exhibition celebrates the power of cinema to move us even when the pictures stop moving
Sophie Rees – the art of simplicity
Dalston artist, who is to open a new gallery shortly, explains how she composes her vibrant paintings
Take a byte – Eat All You Can
HaYoung Kim’s exhibition at Hoxton Art Gallery explores the way we consume technology
Sweet Revenge – Sweet Toof solo show at The Colour Works
Hackney Wick provides the location for an exhibition of grinning graffiti this month
Hackney galleries’ Olympic art attack
Away from the official Cultural Olympiad, East London artists are expressing more ambivalent viewpoints on the impact of the Games
Designed in Hackney Day – 1 August
The beginning of next month starts with a day dedicated to Hackney’s best designers in special pop-up Shoreditch venue, Hackney House
Frank Laws – London Bits
Hackney artist’s social housing paintings reveal beauty in the mundane as he explores his mixed feelings about the borough’s changing face
Bhopal: A Silent Picture – review
Human Rights Action Centre. Until Tuesday 31 July 2012
Going nowhere – the East End art scene
Despite rumours of the death of the local art scene, it is still very much alive and well
Shoreditch Stories – review
Discover portrayals of the everyday at a GP surgery in Shoreditch
The Merry Bobbins – crafty duo keep bygone skills alive
Workshops from The Merry Bobbins aim to bring age-old crafts to a new generation of ‘make-do and menders’