Whitechapel Gallery


77-82 Whitechapel High Street

www.whitechapelgallery.org

London E1 7QX
020 7522 7888


About the venue

The Whitechapel Gallery has now completed an ambitious £13 million expansion, the greatest event in its 100-year history. Following the former Whitechapel Library’s move to a new facility, the Whitechapel Gallery acquired the building to restore it and keep it open as a free art gallery all year round.

Almost doubling in size the expanded Whitechapel Gallery includes;

• A Collection Gallery offering a chance to see important art collections from around the world

• A Commission Gallery with a brand new art work created specially for the building every year

• An Archive Collection Gallery and Archive Research Room telling the story of the history of the Gallery and the local area over the last 100 years.

• An Education and Research Tower for local schools, community groups and offering courses for all

• A new street facing café and full disabled access to the whole building.

Also new to expansion is the Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room which offers a stylish and intimate dining experience, championing British ingredients using local seasonal produce in an eclectic and interesting way.

Booking for lunch and dinner is recommended. To reserve a table please call the Dining Room on T +44 (0)20 7522 7896 (closed on Mondays so please leave a message) or book online anytime with immediate confirmation and special offers.

Opening Times

Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
Thursdays until 9pm

Admission

Free

Travel

The Whitechapel Art Gallery is located on Whitechapel High Street next to Aldgate East tube, the Gallery is also situated next to Brick Lane.

Tube: Aldgate East
Bus: 25, 205,15

Access & facilities

Wheelchair accessible.

For hearing impaired visitors the auditorium is equipped with an induction loop.

Bookshop.

Other points of interest

For great destination for food or drink near to the gallery try The Rhythm Factory.


Bars & pubs nearby
Restaurants nearby


Exhibition and events:

 

Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Fountain, 1917/64, a common urinal displayed on a plinth, is the starting point for exploring the way artists have used materials to look at the relationship between art and reality. This first in a series of four displays drawn from the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece,


 
John Latham - Anarchive

02 Apr – 05 Sep 2010

The remarkable archive of British artist John Latham (1921-2006) is explored through this exhibition inspired by his engagement with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Each section is envisaged through the character of the three eponymous brothers. Mitya is an amoral


 

Glasgow-based artist Claire Barclay is a leading figure in a generation of young sculptors that have defined a re-engagement with materials and making. Barclay has an internationally recognised track record of creating large-scale sculptural installations that combine highly formalised elements


 
Alice Neel - Painted Truths

08 Jul – 17 Sep 2010

Influential 20th century American painter Alice Neel, 1900–1984, is best known for her portraits of celebrated artists and writers from New York, including Andy Warhol, Frank O’Hara, Meyer Shapiro and Linda Nochlin.

Neel reinvigorated the traditions of portraiture at a time when the