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The prestigious Art Icon award, now in its twelfth year, celebrates the work of an artist deemed to have made a profound contribution to the artistic landscape. The 2025 award will be presented to the Colombian artist, Doris Salcedo.
Archipelago: Visions in Orbit is an original exhibition curated by students from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course - a unique one-year professional placement qualification, organised in collaboration with London South Bank University (LSBU).
An Awkward Relation is a new exhibition from interdisciplinary artist Sonia Boyce (b.1962, London, UK).
The I and the You at Whitechapel Gallery marks the first major UK public gallery presentation of the pioneering and influential Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920 –1988, Brazil).
The Whitechapel Gallery introduces a Café/Bar with longer opening hours and larger capacity at the front of the building on Whitechapel High Street run by caterers Leafi.
The Whitechapel Gallery has been awarded £256,700 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the continuation of the Skills for the Future Traineeship programme.
On 2 April 2014 British artist Howard Hodgkin was the first recipient of the Swarovski Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon at a glittering gala dinner at the Whitechapel Gallery. It honours the lifetime achievement of one of our greatest artists.
British artist Howard Hodgkin is announced today as the first artist to be given the Swarovski Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon
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