Whitechapel Gallery party

The Whitechapel Gallery in east London celebrated its reopening after two year of work and £13.5m last night. The undisputed star of the new space - extended by knocking through into the Whitechapel public library - was a full-size mural of Pablo Picasso's famous painting 'Guernica' which usually hangs in the United Nations' headquarters in New York. Sealing a year-long loan of the mural was the brainchild of Polish artist Goshka Macuga (above), who was joined by, among others, classical composer Michael Nyman and burlesque dancer Immodesty Blaize.