ORGAN THING: Sasha Stiles, Binary Odes at Annka Kultys Gallery. A brave new story, or is a beautifully poetic take on an old one? Whatever the point (missed), a rather recommended art exhibition once more…

Sasha Stiles – Binary Odes at Annka Kultys Gallery –  Where were we? Back along the increasingly unfriendly Hackney Road, avoiding the new gatekeepers and heading for the industrial park around the back where the Annka Kultys Gallery now hides. Annka Kultys Gallery is one of the more reliable galleries on this side of town,…

ORGAN THING: (It’s My Party) I Can Cry If I Want To at Guts Gallery, Hackney, East London. A packed opening night and yes, it is a slightly uncomfortable art show in the best of ways, you are challenged…

(It’s My Party) I Can Cry If I Want To at Guts Gallery, Hackney, East London , January 2023 – Where were we? Freezing on a JanuaryFriday night in a Hackney backstreet down by the last of the railway arches that are still alive with the old school industry of car mechanics.  Guts gallery first…

ORGAN THING: Jambinai, South Korea’s maestros of intense folk-infused post-rock release a new EP, hear a track here. They’re also announced as one of the headliners for Portals Festival at EartH in Hackney in May 2023…

JAMBINAI today announce the release of Apparition, a new 4-track EP, out 11th November via Bella Union. To celebrate the announcement the band have shared an intense live performance video for “Once More From That Frozen Bottom”, the EP’s incendiary opening track, filmed last winter at the ARTE museum in Yeosu, here it is.  Additionally,…

ORGAN THING: Martello Street, The Triangle, Peter Kennard, Kelly Sweeney, celebrating East London’s vital old school art studios, these Hackney spaces are important…

Space Studios Open Day, Martello Street/The Triangle, Hackney, East London, July 2022 –  Open Studios, especially Open Studio days in those old East London spaces, the ones steeped in history, the ones alive with tales of the fights to keep them as studios, to take the dilapidated buildings on in the first place, getting the…

ORGAN: Five recommended art things – Romina De Novellis at Richard Saltoun Gallery, Opposing Fictions at Koppel X, Space Open Studios in Hackney, In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, Anne McNeill-Pulati and Non Worrall at Muswell Hill Gallery…

Five more art things. five art things, five more art things happening somewhere around right now or any moment now. Five art shows to check out in the coming days. An (almost) weekly round up of recommended art events. Five shows, exhibitions or things we rather think might be worth checking out. Mostly London things…