Mick Dean praised for ‘revealing the essence of otherwise typical local streets and waterway landscapes’ in his art
Performer Nando Messias returned to the site where he was attacked 10 years previously with a defiant new show about the experience
An encounter with two women in Victoria Park inspired Deborah Pearson’s play about race and identity
We focus in on a work on display in East London. This month is the turn of Belgian artist Cris Brodahl, who makes photorealistic collage-paintings that draw on surrealism and the female form
Theatre marks 20th anniversary with play about pioneering Jamaican nurse, starring its artistic director and former Rolling Stones collaborator Cleo Sylvestre
Florence and the Machine played an acoustic set at St John at Hackney Church last month in aid of War Child
Inspired by the transmissions of a mysterious Russian radio station, In Stormy Nights is the enigmatic debut album by Dream Maps
Moth Club is the new home of a legendary psychedelic club night run by Rhys Webb of the Horrors
American police drama by Mad Men and House of Cards writer Keith Huff is compelling but plot veers too close to cliché
The enigmatic Californian was in East London this week for an electrifying live show
Artists respond to relationships between African countries and the Soviet Union at the newly-reopened Calvert 22 gallery
East London artist pulls no punches with his exhibition of abstract artwork at Oxford House