Tag: Whitechapel Gallery
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Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: This is the Night Mail selected by Ida Ekblad
Images of dramas, dreams and moonlit dinners await visitors at the Whitechapel Gallery, in an exhibition imagining a journey on the most enchanted of night trains
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Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy
A packed retrospective of the surrealist fellow-traveller spirals off in all sort of directions, offering an argument for the spirit of play
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Exercising Freedom: Encounters with Art, Artists and Communities
Drawing on archival material, this fascinating exhibition looks at the Whitechapel Gallery’s pioneering role in setting up an education department and engaging with its local schools and communities
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Kai Althoff Goes With Bernard Leach
Juxtaposing a sprawling selection of Althoff’s works with a tribute to British studio pottery, the first UK survey of the perpetual enfant terrible raises more questions than it answers
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Nalini Malani – interview: ‘The future is female. There is no other way’
Malani won the Joan Miró Prize last year and the resulting exhibition, You Don’t Hear Me, is now on in Barcelona. She has also just been awarded the first National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship. She explains why telling and retelling stories,…
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Staging Jackson Pollock
With glimmers of a cloak-and-danger cold war thriller, this look at the US artist’s 1958 UK debut considers the gallery design, remarkable for its time, and the murky matter of Pollock’s secret CIA support
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Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Corin Sworn
Corin Sworn, the fifth winner of the biannual Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has taken the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte as the theme for her exhibition about mistaken identity
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Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness
American photographer Christopher Williams uses his first UK retrospective to illustrate how comfortable we have made ourselves in a synthetic, commercial world
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Sarah Lucas: Situation – Absolute Beach Man Rubble
Whitechapel Gallery, London 2 October – 15 December 2013
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Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?
Whitechapel Gallery, London 18 June–8 September 2013
