Yoko Ono – Mend Piece – Whitechapel Gallery, East London, January 1st 2022 – Okay, can I claim to have spent New Year’s Day and the start of my art year with some leaves left and a collaboration with Yoko Ono, not that Yoko knows it was me who left that piece on the shelf…
Well there’s certainly something of a buzz in this part of East London tonight, it isn’t an the 2018 Whitechapel Open though. Stolen Space Gallery is buzzing tonight, there’s a line up the street waiting for the gallery to open, we’re right around the corner from Whitechapel Gallery itself, two East End galleries within a…
The First Thursday of May then. First Thursday? Really? Are you sure? Shall we put down the paint brushes and go clutch at straws? Are we clutching at straws? According to various social media feeds and e.mail in-boxes First Thursday in the East End of London is still a happening thing. Really? Surely not? Almost…
purge.xxx is a Liberated Film banner producing cassettes, condoms and pirate DVDs. Liberated Film challenges conventional definitions of film to include readings, music, discussion and expanded image. In its first official ‘day out’, purge.xxx presents The Last London, a cross-media explosion of counter-cultural creativity. Featuring a rare appearance from writer Michael Moorcock in conversation with Iain Sinclair, who…
Monday, new week, new month, does East London First Thursday still exist? Did it melt away under the weight of property developers, Whitechapel Gallery (almost arrogantly) taking it all for granted? That and the lime poison that finally killed off things down one of the finest avenues of East London creativity. Things move on, right…
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