A founding member of cut-and-paste avant-rock group Sun City Girls, guitarist 'Sir' Richard Bishop now works mainly as a solo artist.
His improvisational playing is more consistent in style than Sun City Girls material, but still travels far in its experimental approach, drawing on traditional music from around the world including that of India, North Africa and America.
Contemporary artist Josiah McElheny has transformed Gallery 2 at the Whitechapel with the aid of seven large-scale mirrored sculptures, displaying a series of abstract films. Until 20.07.12.
Swan song time for the YBAs? 2011 saw Emin at the Hayward, whilst this year is the year of Damien Hirst. Going a little under the radar is the Whitechapel's retrospective for Gillian Wearing, who won the...
A small display at the Whitechapel charting the history of the Government Art Collection, which, founded back in 1899, now contains some 13,500 works dating from the 16th century to the present day. Until...
Whitechapel has dusted 113 years worth of cobwebs off of the Government Art Collection; a massive collection of over 13,500 works dating back to the 16th century. For the latest instalment in the series...
Every year the WHitechapel Gallery invites a writer to curate a series of events exploring the relationship between art and writing. This year it's theturn of independent imprint, information as material...
Two simultaneous solo shows at Raven Row this summer - with both Babak Ghazi and Gareth Jones offering "totalising views of their work". Until 14.07.12.