Hackney WickED Art Festival 2011 – review
This popular three day extravaganza drew thousands of art and music lovers to Hackney Wick and Fish Island last month. The Citizen explores the galleries
Art & Design
I Am Braziliality
A new exhibition challenges preconceptions and looks at the nation’s culture and identity afresh
Hackney’s cycling cultures: Bike Portraits pop-up exhibition
30 July – 31 August 2011, Hackney bike shops
Arty lattes at Hackney café galleries
Two new local spaces in the south of the borough are coupling culture with cuisine
Drawing Room Biennial Fundraiser Exhibition
Until 18 May 2011, Drawing Room, Tannery Arts
Yes, but is it drawing? London 2011 Biennial Fundraiser
The best works auctioned at east London’s Drawing Room, by Turner prizewinners and younger artists alike, are self-regarding, silly, and muse on the nature of drawing itself
Street art tours reveal hidden treasure
For those who don’t know their Stik from their Roa, a guided tour around London’s East End is the way to uncover works by artists on the verge of mainstream recognition
