Parallel lives at the Whitechapel Gallery

The museum room of the former library, currently showing the British Council’s art collection.

Source: Richard Bryant/Arcaid

The expansion and refurbishment of east London’s Whitechapel Gallery by Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem, working with Witherford Watson Mann, burnishes the city’s art scene

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