The Easel

5th September 2017

Artist Rachel Whiteread talks to Simon Schama

Simon Schama | ft.com | 1st September 2017

With an imminent retrospective at Tate the British sculptor Rachael Whiteread is in the spotlight. She is best known for her casts of internal spaces including, famously, the inside of an old terrace house. “I think of her work as dominated by memory rather than memorial, and marked by traces of warm life as much as chill death. Whiteread’s great pieces are sighs made tangible.” A short video (8 min) is here.

Daniel Richter in five works

Staff | Medium | 2nd August 2017

Richter was designing record covers and posters before a belated burst of study led him to discover painting. “Hugely influential” according to one critic, Richter’s work is being featured for the first time at a London public gallery. He often draws inspiration from photos in the media to which he adds his own political commentary, sometimes giving a sense of the “retired anarchist”. An interview with Richter (28 min) is here.

29th August 2017

Raqib Shaw

Veronica Simpson | Studio International | 21st July 2017

When Manchester was the textile capital of the world it was deeply influenced by designs from the sub-continent. It’s unsurprising then that Manchester’s Whitworth museum is showing Kashmir raised, London based Raqib Shaw. Criticism that Shaw’s elaborate paintings are merely ‘decorative’ doesn’t bother this writer. The show “contradicts the “less is more” modernist credo; when the choices are good ones, more can be more.”

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