The largest art book event in the country invites visitors to take part in a programme of discussions and workshops with publishers, artists and writers.

With shows from Glasgow to Eastbourne and all points between, April is as good a month as any to get out and about for art.

Irish artist Gerard Byrne picks through ephemeral media from the previous century to reanimate past debates for an absorbing exhibition at the Whitechapel.

One of a group chosen to play themselves in a movie by the Turner Prize-winning artist, Akhtar tells Culture24 about the experience.

There's more to the East End than cockney rhyming slang. From contemporary art at the Whitechapel Gallery to the streets that inspired Dickens, take a walk round the diverse mix of old and new on this trail of locations and museums that can be seen in half a day.