This week: after four long months, commercial art galleries are open again in England. We discuss some of the London shows with Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, and take a tour of Rachel Whiteread’s exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London. You can listen to our in-depth interview with Whiteread on our A brush with... podcast here.
Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects is open now at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London (until 6 June).
Idris Khan in his exhibition The Seasons Turn at Victoria Miro, London © Josh Shinner
And we talk to the artist Idris Khan, who has a new exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery, about his oil, watercolour and collage works made in the English countryside and using sheet music from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Idris Khan: The Seasons Turn is open now at Victoria Miro London (until 15 May).
Kore 674 at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
James Welling's Kore 674 Courtesy of the artist
And in this episode’s Work of the Week we talk to the artist James Welling, whose latest photographic projects stem from direct encounters with ancient Greek objects, about Kore 674, an ancient Greek sculpture from 500 BCE in the Acropolis Museum, Athens.
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