Street artist brings some colour back to Shoreditch as borough slowly opens up
World-renowned artist Nerone’s ‘colourful, dreamlike flowers’ on Chance Street celebrate the vibrancy of city life
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Local galleries that you can enjoy without booking in advance
A handy list of places where the ‘pleasure of a casual visit’ to an exhibition can still be found
African artworks lost in Shoreditch church basement for 70 years go on display
A free exhibition at the Theatre Courtyard showcases rare early paintings and drawings by more than 40 Zimbabwean artists
‘Hackney is London’s Springfield’: Meet the Simpsons-inspired animator telling stories in stop-motion
Lamide Olusegun is hoping to raise enough money to set up a studio in the borough to rival the industry’s biggest names
Photography 2020, London Metropolitan University, exhibition review: ‘Dislocation, distortion and fragmented identities’
The university’s annual showcase of final-year photography projects has ‘glided gracefully online’
Public Windrush artwork set to be revealed as Town Hall’s annual festival gets underway online
Winning sculpture, which will be the first permanent monument to the Windrush Generation in the UK, to be announced on Windrush Day on Monday
Public art project invites Hackney residents to see their colourful photos become optical illusions
Collaboration between artist Jo Guile and researcher Dr Emily Patterson hopes to ‘spark conversation about subjective nature of perception’
Delayed Homerton Hospital exhibition celebrating Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday goes on display for staff
Major showcase of archival material was postponed due to coronavirus but is now available to health workers ahead of possible future launch
Beanz meanz…
In search of a suitable lockdown subject, our resident food historian hits upon a humble tin of black-eyed beans in her kitchen cupboard
Small Talk, My Animal, online exhibition review: ‘A return to the root of human existence’
Curator and artist Molly Morphew’s lockdown-friendly, multimedia show ‘strips away the artifice’ of modern life
Art in the time of coronavirus: The best of London’s galleries – online
Alice Jones picks out the crème de la crème of the capital’s virtual exhibitions
Treasure trove of photos found at the Rio to go on show at Hackney Museum
Thousands of images of 1980s Hackney, discovered in the cinema’s basement in 2017, set to become a major exhibition
Sharif Persaud: Have You Ever Had, Autograph ABP: ‘Fake sneezing, gangrene – a fascination with the corporeal’
The autistic artist’s first solo show is the revealing culmination of a three-year project on neurodiversity
Radical Figures, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Anxious interrogation of the 21st-century condition’
A collection of works by ten contemporary painters explores themes such as gender discrimination, racism, violence and dislocation
‘Rich history’ of east London’s print trade on display for new exhibition
Rendezvous Projects’ show at Bow’s Nunnery Gallery maps the changes in the industry locally over the 20th century
Celia Paul, Victoria Miro Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Sombre yet uplifting gaze into the human condition’
The artist’s eponymous exhibition is an ‘intensely intimate’ collection on ‘grief, time, death and spirituality’