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80 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX
Romanian-born twins b 1973. The woodcuts, collages and sculptures at the Whitechapel Gallery are a collaboration by the Romanian born twins Gert & Uwe Tobias. The works are filled with familiar forms or patterns that sometimes resemble a Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 April - 14 June 2013
Reviewed by: Lisa McKendrick »
“This voice is the sun touching your face… feel the sun in your mouth.” Laure Prouvost's exhibition Farfromwords at the Whitechapel Gallery explores the sensory and sensual possibilities of landscape. Her provocatively titled Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
20 March - 7 April 2013
Reviewed by: Anneka French »
Painting is edited by Terry R Myers and he has done an excellent job. The texts he has selected cut straight to the chase and address the urgent issues in contemporary painting with clarity. In his introduction to the book he Read on…
Book Review, Whitechapel Gallery Press
1 December 2011 - 15 February 2012
Reviewed by: Martin Lang »
John Stezaker at the Whitechapel gallery explores the attraction and mystery of images through a series of collages of vintage film stills, glamorous photographs of men and women of the 1930’s to the 1960’s in black and white. He takes Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
29 January - 18 March 2011
Reviewed by: Lena Cottray »
A book with Failure written boldly on the cover is terribly appealing. There is something tantalising about the concept and Lisa le Feuvre has finally granted failure the long overdue recognition in this impressive anthology which Read on…
2010 Published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, Series editor Iwona Blazwick
1 October 2010 - 31 December 2011
Reviewed by: Jane Faram »
This exhibition brings together some of the most important portraits from influential 20th Century American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) celebrating the effect her work has had on our way of painting and certainly our means of representation. A Read on…
The Whitechapel Gallery, London
8 July - 17 September 2010
Reviewed by: Adam Kelly »
When I decided to venture to London to see the Stephen Sutcliffe exhibition I expected to view a film. Described by the blurb on the gallery’s website, I was to anticipate enticing “fragments of broadcast images and the written and Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
1 October 2010 - 2 January 2011
Reviewed by: Hayley Boba »
“Take Care of Yourself” 2009 is a retrospective of her work from the 1980’s to the present. The main room and point of interest focuses on the break up letter she received from a lover. In true Calle style, once composed she Read on…
Whitechapel, London
15 October 2009 - 27 January 2010
Reviewed by: Clare Harris »
Where Three Dreams Cross is the current exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, open until April 11, 2010. It is a showing of 84 photographers native to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh of over 400 photographs depicting the subcontinent from Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, East London
21 January - 11 April 2010
Reviewed by: Kait Brudzinski »
Where Three Dreams Cross presents photography of the Indian subcontinent between 1860 and today, with special emphasis on all images being created by native-born artists. Inevitably, this conjures up questions of self-representation beginning Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
21 January - 11 April 2010
Reviewed by: Nette Hargreaves »
'Talking to Strangers' consists of three gallery spaces in which can be explored the autobiographical and anthropological work of Sophie Calle. First and most dominant is the stand alone installation 'Take Care of Yourself', previously presented as Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 October 2009 - 3 January 2010
Reviewed by: Beth Bramich »
“Oh my God, I didn’t realise they were so SMALL!” This was my first startled reaction on entering Gallery 8 in the Whitechapel Gallery, London. I’d seen many reproductions of Elizabeth Peyton’s work, but none in Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
9 July - 20 September 2009
Reviewed by: Carole Kirk »
Inclusion With the all renovations going on, the Whitechapel Gallery recently had a spare room for an afternoon. In a display of conspicuous inclusivity the institution opened its doors for artists to talk about being Outsiders and put Read on…
Whitechapel Gallery, London
6 September 2007
Reviewed by: Matthew MacKisack »
London's east end: an area one hardly needs to introduce. A magnet within the magnet, it attracts thousands of artists and art lovers. Its outbursts of creative energy made a success of the 'Whitechapel Open'. After six years of silence, it's back Read on…
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
11 June 29 August
Reviewed by: Stephanie Delcroix »