A new retrospective by the Black British artist plays with everything from the Victorians鈥 use of flowers to Eurocentric beauty standards 鈥 including one piece she started in 2003.
Read our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from the first major retrospective of Hamad Butt, a key figure in the city鈥檚 90鈥檚 art scene, at Whitechapel Gallery, to Paul McCartney鈥檚 backstage photographs at The Gagosian
Hamad Butt: Apprehensions is the first major survey of Hamad Butt. One of the most innovative artists of his generation, Hamad Butt was a pioneer of intermedia art, bringing art into conversation with science, whilst also referencing his Queer and diasporic experiences.
Whitechapel Gallery, LondonHe died before his time but Hamad Butt鈥檚 sublimely hazardous retrospective of mustard gas baubles and blinding lights is a thrilling mix of the nostalgic and new.
Donald Rodney, who died in 1998 at the age of 36, was part of the BLK Art Group and a forerunner, in many ways, of what we would now call Disability Arts.
Whitechapel Gallery is a bastion of artistic innovation. It鈥檚 a space where avant-garde ideas collide with cultural heritage to shape the evolving landscape of contemporary art.
Bidding opens today for the 2025 Art Icon Auction, with a stellar lineup of works from leading contemporary artists in support of Whitechapel Gallery鈥檚 Exhibition and Participation Programmes.
Co-curated by Sonia Boyce, this concise exhibition shows how Clark鈥檚 geometric abstraction in the 50s gave way in the 60s to a greater focus on sensory experience and connection with her audience