four main areas: schools and teachers; children and families; youth; and community. Highlights include The NEON Curatorial Exchange, which is delivered in partnership with NEON Organisation in Athens. It builds links between emerging curators in the UK and Greece, so that best practice can be shared, and new ideas developed, with the aim of championing curatorial excellence. Since 2009, the gallery has invited a series of writers and artists to take up the position of Writer in Residence. The residency programme features discussions, performances and interventions, considering how writing is experienced through the lens of contemporary art. Publications In 2006, Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press formed an editorial alliance to produce a new series of books entitled Documents of Contemporary Art. Expansion The Whitechapel reopened in April 2009 after a two-year project, which approximately doubled the size of the Gallery by incorporating the adjacent former Passmore Edwards library building (vacated when Whitechapel Idea Store opened). The work cost approximately £13.5 million and was partly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. A full-size tapestry based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica, by Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach and loaned from the United Nations Art Collection, was included in the inaugural exhibition by Goshka Macuga. and Isa Genzken. As part of the expansion, a new Archive Gallery, a reading room and an archive repository (where the Whitechapel's historic records are held) have been created to support the Whitechapel's standing as an educational charity. The archives catalogue the very conception of the gallery, as well as the complete directors' files of correspondence which reveal the reasons behind key decisions in the Gallery's history. Directors Charles Aitken (1901–1911) Hugh Scrutton (1945–1952) Bryan Robertson (1952–1968) Mark Glazebrook (1969–1971) Jenny Stein (1972–1974) Jasia Reichardt (1974–1976) Nicholas Serota (1976–1988) Catherine Lampert (1988–2002) Iwona Blazwick (2002–2022) Gilane Tawadros (2022–Present) References External links Greg Whitfield, Review of Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller and Philip DiCorcia show at Whitechapel Art Gallery (June–August 2003), 3:am Magazine. Includes a good photograph of the Gallery interior. Prince William opens Whitechapel Gallery Prince of Wales Website Alice Neel: Painted Truths Exhibition 2010, Exhibition Review Isa Genzken, first exhibition in the newly expanded Gallery Isa Genzken: Open Sesame Sophie Calle review Guardian Article Interview with Iwona Blaswick Times Online Education in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets History of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Contemporary art galleries in London Cultural infrastructure completed in 1901 Museums in