Painter’s latest collection uses a highly layered style resembling early cameraless photography
Posted inART
Re-Defining Beauty at Leyden Gallery: taking a fresh look at the naked male form
Life drawing group Nude for Thought wants the male nude to regain its stature in contemporary art
Posted inNEWS
To treat naked artist Poppy Jackson as a joke is to dismiss something powerful
Straddling the roof of Toynbee Hall, Jackson’s performance at Spill festival was a daring piece of experimental art. So why did most media reports reduce it to the lowest common denominator?
Posted inSTAGE
Sarai: stage review – Old Testament drama proves power of the scriptures
One woman show at Dalston’s Arcola Theatre is a tour de force
Posted inMUSIC
Reflections on Mirrors festival: stellar venues and sounds
Big names and lesser known acts wreaked musical havoc at the first ever Mirrors festival in Hackney this weekend
Posted inSTAGE
New play Lines looks at how peace is ‘just a gap between wars’
Four soldiers struggle to adapt to not being at war in the latest production at the Yard Theatre
Posted inNEWS
Mayor ‘deeply shocked’ at plans to close the Cass
Petition gathers momentum against relocating art school, described as the ‘Aldgate Bauhaus’, out of East London
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Cancellation of witchcraft play is ‘akin to censorship’
Girls’ school pulls plug on touring play citing explicit references to child abuse
Posted inFILM
Fringe! festival returns with special emphasis on Brazil
East London’s queer film and arts festival returns with a bumper programme of work from across the globe
Posted inNEWS
‘Time has come’ for a Hitchcock museum in Leytonstone
Moves are afoot to find a permanent site in East London to celebrate the ‘master of suspense’