Tag: Whitechapel Gallery

  • The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone

    Delicate and poised, spidery and animated, these bronze casts of tree trunks, hollowed out and painted with a radiant gold-leaf interior, seem to prowl the gallery on their spindly branched limbs. This new site-specific work for the Bloomberg Commission, Spazio…

  • Rothko in Britain

    Whitechapel Gallery, London 9 September 2011–26 February 2012

  • Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers

    The linguistic games of Take Care of Yourself, a highlight of the Venice Biennale in 2007 are now the centrepiece of Sophie Calle’s first UK retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery

  • Whitechapel rising: the new opening

    The Whitechapel Gallery in East London was founded in 1901, Whitechapel itself was at that time a remarkably cosmopolitan part of London, where large numbers of late 19th century immigrants settled, principally Eastern European Jews and Russian political exiles. These…

  • The British Council Collection; Passports

    Whitechapel Gallery, London 5 April–14 June 2009

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…

  • Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings

    Museum of Modern Art, New York 29 October 2006-15 January 2007 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 23 February-13 May 2007 The work of American painter Brice Marden is currently showing in a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern…