The arts Archives — Bethnal Green LDN

The Vagina Museum in Bethnal Green has surpassed its fundraising target in one weekend after facing closure for the second

Culture The arts

14 March 2025 Ray Bonsall

Vagina Musuem launches crowdfunder to secure its future following ‘insurmountable’ rent increase

The world’s first museum dedicated to gynecological anatomy successfully crowdfunded its Bethnal Green location in 2023, but is again under

A black and white portrait of saxophonist Lora Logic smiling

Culture Local The arts

11 February 2025 Agatha Scaggiante

Saxophonist Lora Logic made a name with punk band X-Ray Spex, then vanished from music for 40 years—now, she’s back.

Punk saxophone legend Lora Logic has returned with her first album in over four decades, hitching a UFO ride to

Children playing hopscotch and skipping games on Chisenhale Road in East London outside the house where Nigel Henderson used to live.

Culture Heritage Local The arts

20 November 2024 Agatha Scaggiante

How the East End has inspired the greats of British street photographers

Just as the bleak streets of New York inspired the birth of street photography in the early twentieth century, the

A young child sorts through clothes on a market day on Cheshire Street. A black and white photo taken by street photographer Paul Trevor in 1975.

Culture Local The arts

14 October 2024 Agatha Scaggiante

Market Day by Paul Trevor book review: Capturing the theatre of Brick Lane

Street photographer Paul Trevor captures the scenes and emotions of East End market days near Brick Lane over the years

performers, strip, bgwmc, bethnal green working mens club, queer, sexworkers, photographer, poppy pray, whoretographer

Culture Local Queer London The arts

27 September 2024 Agatha Scaggiante

‘Whoretographer’ Poppy Pray snaps the golden years of the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club

Focusing on queer sex workers in the East End, Poppy Pray explores the smoke, sweat, glitter and glamour of the

An exhibition hall presenting a few of Hannah Starkey's works. Pictured left is Untitled, November 2023. Pictured right is Untitled, June 2020.

Culture Local The arts

3 June 2024 Samia Uddin

Maureen Paley exhibits Hannah Starkey: Women in Spaces

In six images, Hannah Starkey’s exhibition at Maureen Paley explores women’s representation through large-scale photographs capturing everyday moments. Maureen Paley’s

A graph about the painfulness of period pain at the exhibition ‘Endometriosis: Into the Unknown’ at The Vagina Museum

Culture Local The arts

2 February 2024 Rachel Fergusson

‘Endometriosis: Into the Unknown’: The Vagina Museum’s mission to break the silence

The Vagina Museum’s no-holds-barred exhibition on endometriosis asks why we know so little about a condition that affects one in

Artist Milou Stella stands next to her house boat Baba Yaga on the canal

Culture Queer London The arts

18 July 2022 Niamh O'Neill

Artist Milou Stella: on the influence of psychology and queer theory on their quest to blur the rigid lines of categorisation

We speak to Milou Stella, an interdisciplinary queer artist, on how art has helped them overcome difficult personal challenges. “I