Whitechapel Gallery Summer 2010
2010-06-25
Exhibitions
26 May 2010 – 2 May 2011
The Bloomberg Commission: Claire Barclay: Shadow Spans
The Whitechapel Gallery presents a new site-specific commission by internationally recognised artist, Claire Barclay.
Free admission
10 June – 5 September 2010
Keeping it Real: An Exhibition of Four Parts: Act 1: The Corporeal
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, the D. Daskalopoulos Collection. The first act, The Corporeal, foregrounds works which examine the human body as a site of psychological, social and ideological struggle.
Free admission
Alice Neel: Painted Truths
Alice Neel: Painted Truths is the first European retrospective dedicated to one of the most prominent American figurative painters of the 20th century.
Free admission
Thursday 1 July, 7pm
Keeping It Real Exhibition Talk
Led tour of exhibition with the curator Achim Borchardt Hume.
With BSL interpretation.
Free admission, booking essential.
Thursday 5 August, 7pm
Daniel Herrman on Alice Neel
With BSL interpretation
Free admission with exhibition ticket£8.50/£6.50 conc, booking essential
Thursday 2 September, 7pm
Nayia Yiakoumaki on the John Latham Anarchive Exhibition
With BSL interpretation
Free admission, booking essential
Talks/Debates
Thursday 1 July, 7pm
Whitechapel Gallery Salon: Matter Matters II
Performance and live art have a slippery relationship with art history’s traditional strategies for archiving material and tangible ‘matter’. Gavin Butt, Adrian Heathfield and Lois Keidan discuss why performance matters.
£8/£6 conc includes a Free admission glass of wine.
Tuesday 6 July, 7pm
CREATE10 FutureHistories: Art and London’s East End
East London is Europe’s largest cultural quarter and home to thousands of artists. Iwona Blazwick, Gregor Muir and Rachel Whiteread examine the past and future of art in this fast changing area.
Co-ordinated by Julia Royse.
£4/Free admission.
Thursday 8 July, 7pm
Sublime with Simon Morley
The sublime is a loaded concept but often defined by its elusiveness. Simon Morley traces changing ideas of the sublime through the work of artists and writers, to coincide with his new book.
£6/£4 conc.
Thursday 9 September , 7pm
The Real World: Contemporary but Overlooked
This session looks at alternative art ecologies, and how artists might situate and critically develop their practice outside the conventional art system.
Speakers include curator Mark Pilkington and artist Cathy Ward.
£3
Thursday 16 September, 7pm
Intoart
Intoart is an art collective that includes people with a learning disability. For this event they revisit their Whitechapel Gallery exhibition. Contributors to their latest book present live and recorded conversations followed by a discussion.
Free admission.
Saturday 25 September, 2pm
Failure with Lisa Le Feuvre
Michael Landy’s Art Bin (2010) was a ‘monument to creative failure’, asking artists to commit seemingly unsuccessful art to a giant skip. Lisa Le Feuvre discusses the art of failure and its lure for artists, critics and theorists, on the occasion of her new book.
£6/£4 conc
Saturday 25 September, 4pm
Banjos at Dawn 1: For and Against the Interview
The interview – an invaluable historical tool or a perpetuation of the cult of celebrity? The first in a series of duelling debates sees Gilda Williams and Julian Stallabrass take up opposing positions, while Sally O’Reilly ensures etiquette is observed.
In association with Art Monthly
£7/£5 conc
Friday 1 October, 11am–6pm
How to… Understand the Art World
From galleries to degree shows, biennials to art fairs, how does the art world function and how do its activities fit into a wider cultural landscape? Director Iwona Blazwick unravels the complex connections and unseen workings of the contemporary art ecosystem.
£125/£95 conc, booking essential.
Events
Thursday 15 July, 6pm
Book Launch: The Portable – John Latham
Book celebrating John Latham’s personal archive.
Free admission
Sunday 22 August, 1-5pm
A Day at the Beach in Whitechapel
Directions from the information desk.
Sally O’Reilly invites east London holidaymakers to take to a deck chair, bring a novel and picnic and relax at the Whitechapel Gallery’s own pop-up beach.
Free admission
Saturday 4 September, 4-6pm
DVD Launch: John Latham
A launch for a new DVD of John Latham’s films, including all his completed films as well as previously unseen performance documentations. The DVD is co-published by LUX & Lisson Gallery. This event follows a specially commissioned performance by David Toop in response to the John Latham online archive.
Free admission
Sunday 19 September, 2&4 pm
Tour: Whitechapel Gallery – Open Archive
The Whitechapel Gallery’ archivist Gary Haines reveals the Gallery’s 109 year history through artists’ letters, photographs and papers. Part of Open House weekend.
£3
Visitor Information
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