Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
City of London
E1 7QX
England
Website
Telephone
020 7522 7888
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020 7377 1685
The Whitechapel Art Gallery was founded in 1901 to bring great art to the people of east London. Internationally acclaimed for its exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and its pioneering education and public events programmes, the Gallery has premiered international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Nan Goldin, and provided a showcase for Britain’s most significant artists from Gilbert & George to Lucian Freud, Peter Doig to Mark Wallinger.
The Gallery plays a unique role in the capital’s cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of East London as the world’s most vibrant contemporary art quarter.
The Grade II* Whitechapel Gallery was designed by architect Charles Harrison Townsend. This purpose built gallery is an outstanding example of the Arts and Crafts movement and its aspirations of being accessible, spiritually uplifting and transformative. This development also builds on the 1980s expansion by Colquhoun and Miller under the directorship of Sir Nicolas Serota and inaugurated by the Queen Mother.
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Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
City of London
E1 7QX
England
Website
Telephone
020 7522 7888
Fax
020 7377 1685
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77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
City of London
E1 7QX
England
Website
Telephone
020 7522 7888
Fax
020 7377 1685
Alice Neel: Painted Truths
Alice Neel (1900–1984) is best known for psychologically acute portraits that chronicle the social and economic diversity of the artist’s work. A self-proclaimed ‘collector of souls’, she often painted friends and family, as well as celebrated artists and writers of her day, such as Andy Warhol, Frank O’Hara and Meyer Shapiro, delving into their personalities and idiosyncrasies with rare frankness. Bringing together over 60 of her most important paintings on loan from international museum and private collections, this exhibition spans nearly seven decades of her career.
Suitable for
- All ages
When
12-12am
Where
Whitechapel Gallery
The D.Daskalopoulos Collection
As part of its ongoing programme of opening up important art collections to the public the Gallery presents a series of four thematic exhibitions drawn from one of the foremost European collections of contemporary art. Composed of over 400 works by leading international artists including Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine, Paul McCarthy and Kiki Smith the backbone of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection is formed by works from the past two decades and reflects the ideas and aesthetic strategies of this period giving particular prominence to large-scale installations and sculpture, as well as drawing, collage and video.
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- All ages
When
12-12am
Where
Whitechapel Gallery
Walid Raad
US-based Lebanese artist Walid Raad, is one of the most original and significant voices to emerge from and to engage with the current situation of the Middle East. This exhibition brings together Raad’s landmark projects from the past two decades: the documentary-style films and photographs produced under the name of the fictitious collective The Atlas Group which take the civil wars in Lebanon as their source of creative inspiration; and his ongoing investigation into the lost tradition of modernity and the rapidly developing infrastructure for contemporary art in the Gulf states in A History of Art in the Arab World.
Suitable for
- All ages
When
12-12am
Where
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
City of London
E1 7QX
England
Website
Telephone
020 7522 7888
Fax
020 7377 1685
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