Whitechapel Gallery
Rothko in Britain, Whitechapel GallerySunday, 11 September 2011
Exhibitions with titles appended "in Britain" or "and Britain" tend to be the kiss of death: indicating concentration on a brief and insignificant visit, on the subject’s impact on British art or – even worse – the influence of local collectors on... Read more... |
Thomas Struth: Photography 1978-2010, Whitechapel GalleryWednesday, 03 August 2011
In Düsseldorf in the 1970s there was an astonishing art academy, the Kunstakademie, with amazing teachers – and amazing students. Düsseldorf was a proud art city, and published at the time a book of photographs called Düsseldorf City of Artists. The... Read more... |
Government Art Collection: At Work, Whitechapel GallerySunday, 12 June 2011
It owns almost twice as many artworks as the Arts Council, and two-thirds of its 13,500-strong hoard is on display at any given time, yet it’s a collection the public never usually gets to see. Since its foundation in 1898, the Government Art... Read more... |
Fred Sandback, Whitechapel GallerySunday, 29 May 2011
Fred Sandback is one of the great overlooked of the Minimalist movement that developed in the 1960s. Both those words are important – “great” and “overlooked”: his work is genuinely great, and part of its greatness is the way it has overlooking... Read more... |
Alice Neel: Painted Truths, Whitechapel GalleryFriday, 09 July 2010
What a troubled life Alice Neel led. The death of her first child, a daughter, who died of diphtheria in 1928 just before her first birthday; another daughter lost to her estranged husband’s family in Cuba two years later (as an adult and a... Read more... |
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