ORGAN THING: Rachel de Joode at Annka Kultys Gallery – an exciting exhibition that really does demand you look properly, that you question what you see, an exhibition that says the Annka Kultys Gallery has done it again…

Rachel de Joode – Soft at Annka Kultys Gallery, East London, October/November 2020 – – an exhibition that really does demand you look properly, that you question what you see, an exciting art exhibition that says Annka Kultys has done it again… Soft is an exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based Dutch artist Rachel de…

ORGAN THING: Delicious things, inviting things, Augustine Carr and Neal Rock, Transfers at Transition Gallery, East London…

Augustine Carr and Neal Rock, Transfers (On The Margin), Transition Gallery, East London, Sept 2019 – A rather intimate two person show at Transition Gallery’s new space down in The Ghetto (as some Hackney residents mockingly call the Victoria Park village). Actually this seems a far more friendly welcoming place than that previous rather aloof…

ORGAN THING: Francis Wilks and Zachari Logan at New Art Projects, Anne Lacheiner-Kuhn at Nelly Duff, Grace Morgan Pardo at Shipton Street, Florence Hutchings at Delphian Gallery, a little more than just another night of East London art?

There’s quite a few gallery openings around the side streets of East London tonight, enticing new art shows and galleries bursting into action for what some insist is the start of the new art season, never really got that new season notion, art doesn’t really stop does it? There’s shows and openings and fairs and…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Chris Moon returns to London and Gallery 46 with Monday Club, a new series of paintings based on the artist’s daily cycle from his studio to London Fields Lido…

STOP PRESS: The opening night “private view” will now happen this Thursday rather than this Wednesday. We assume this is something to do with a football match…  Chris Moon returns to London with Monday Club, a new series of paintings based on the artist’s daily cycle from his studio to London Fields Lido. – The…

ORGAN THING: Paul Renner and Paul Sakoilsky – This is The Gate of Heaven at Gallery 46, Whitechapel, East London, now that was an opening…

Paul Renner and Paul Sakoilsky – This is The Gate of Heaven at Gallery 46, Whitechapel, East London –  “Working around themes of transformation, corruption and conservation, the show presents a banquet of the senses and a magic bullet for these dark times” – we’ve seen lots of Paul Sakoilsky in recent years, his paintings,…

ORGAN THING: The taste of paint, the smell of history, Martello Street Studios open day, like we we said last week, these kind of days are vital. Peter Kennard, Throbbing Gristle, Walid Sati, Zoe Benbow, Jamie Boyd, Doyle and Mallinson…

We said it last week, we shall no doubt say it again (if and) when we get to go to the next one (you can never take these days or places for granted is these property-developer-fuelled times of greed and destruction), we’ll say it once more here, open days at artist’s studios are always worth…