Sculpture
Rachel Whiteread: Detached - Gagosian Gallery
This latest exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery is a display of new sculptures by Rachel Whiteread. It is called 'Detached' because of the process of abstracting or distantiating from reality that is part of the artistic process.
Rachel Whiteread, Gagosian Gallery, London, review
Rachel Whiteread turned 50 last week. Is that young or old? It sounds ancient if you associate her with the YBAs (Young British Artists), but makes her a mere sprout if you think of her as the youngest member of that extraordinary generation of sculptors
Saloua Raouda Choucair at Tate
In 1921, Fernand Léger painted Le Grand Déjeuner, in which three moon-faced naked women with tubular bodies, globular breasts and matching hairdos lounge about drinking tea in an opulent modern salon. Patterns play all around them; they look out at us bRachel Whiteread: A lesson in how to think inside the box
Rachel Whiteread is an artist whose sculptures and installations always draw you in.Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell
Three concrete sheds stand on a concrete floor. I look down, to check I haven't turned into a concrete garden gnome. There are few signs of life. No birdsong. No tinny football commentary or muffled sounds of sawing and cursing. No reek of homebrew or fug
Jacob Epstein: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
“I don’t like the family Stein; There is Gert, there is Ep and there’s Ein; Gert’s Poems are bunk, Ep’s statues are punk, And nobody understands Ein” (Anon).
Jacob Epstein: Portrait Sculptor - National Portrait Gallery
As one of the 20th century's leading sculptors, Jacob Epstein spent a lot of time putting portraiture at the centre of his work. This special display explores his career through busts of famous artist, politicians and other leading figures. Many of th
Exhibition of the week: Moore Rodin, Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green
For the first time, another sculptor, Auguste Rodin, has moved in to challenge the right of Henry Moore's sculptures to rule over the fields of this rural estate.Moore-Rodin, Henry Moore Foundation, Herts, review
Two giants of sculpture. On the one hand, Henry Moore, the Yorkshireman who put Britain on the Modernist map, widely regarded as the greatest sculptor of the 20th century (and if he isn’t, I can’t think who is). And on the other, Auguste Rodin, the gr