First Thursday - Late Night Free Gallery Openings

On the first Thursday of every month the galleries and museums of East London open their doors late for a chance to see amazing art, culture and events after hours. With over 100 galleries and museums open until 9pm on First Thursdays there will always be something free and exciting to see.

Where?

Around various galleries in East London

When?

First Thursday of the month – 6th May is the next one.

How Much?

Free

First Thursdays

Truly an interesting and innovative collaboration between TimeOut and The Whitechapel Gallery this event gives people a reason to get out there and enjoy art in an unpretentious and accessible way. In London we know that the East is currently the hot bed of forward thinking and non-conformity, so what better thing to do on a Thursday evening then go for a stroll on an East London art trail walk.

You can also find some suggested art trail walk itineraries on First Thursdays website, to get more information please go to: http://www.firstthursdays.co.uk

Here are some of the galleries and exhibitions that are featured in May:

Rachel Thorlby - The Immortality Drive

Rachel Thorlby – The Immortality Drive

29 Apr – 30 May 2010

Exhibition
Sculpture, collage and painting

No.1 VYNER STREET
London E2 9DG

Madder139
07866 462227

First Thursdays Late Opening, May 6

Thorlby takes the busts of famous people that we pass daily in our public institutions without really noticing and recoups them for us by her attention. Her Pope materialises from a series of reproductions. Arranged at ten to two the dismembered feet of one of the world’s most powerful individuals becomes domesticated, putting one more in mind of your forlorn grandfather’s slippers than a Papal shoe that requires the kiss of servitude. Her representations are of those whose power was, likely as not, borne of others subjugation. Should they not be made blind? Decapitated? Tortured and Revived?

IAN JOHNSON - TimeScale

IAN JOHNSON – TimeScale

19 Mar – 09 May 2010
Exhibition
Mixed

25A Vyner St, London
London E2 9DG
Gooden Gallery
020 8981 1233

TimeScale continues Ian Johnson’s enquiry into the conceptual and physical implications of man’s impact on the urban and natural landscape and ways that this can be configured intuitively. It consists of inter-related sculptures, drawings and assemblages that interlace attributes of the elemental with various concepts of organisation and categorisation common to man’s need to understand his own history and development.

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