BlogBook Club
A brush with… eight artists tell us about the books and poems that inspire their work
Artists including Rachel Whiteread, Ragnar Kjartansson and Roni Horn share texts ranging from 19th-century poetry to postmodern fiction on The Art Newspaper’s podcast
BlogIn the frame
Queen's birthday honours: Rachel Whiteread is made a Dame with awards also for Glenn Brown and Ralph Rugoff
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Rachel Whiteread: Art Icon
Artist honoured as the Whitechapel Gallery's Art Icon as she returns to the East End
NewsContemporary art
Rachel Whiteread’s breakthrough work Ghost gets complex conservation treatment
Structural engineers and architects were among those restoring the room-sized cast at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
NewsCommissions
Rachel Whiteread turns a Nissen Hut inside out for her first UK permanent piece
The concrete cast—a 14-18 Now commission—is sited in a secluded spot in Dalby Forest
BlogIn the frame
Taking a stand: 14-18 NOW final season features a women’s march and a New York-bound Dazzle ship
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From a huge light show across the city to the final week of Rachel Whiteread's retrospective
NewsRachel Whiteread
First look at Rachel Whiteread’s suburban house sculpture in London’s new US Embassy
Sections of an all-American home have been mounted on the walls
FeaturePodcast
Podcast episode one: Nazi loot and Rachel Whiteread
Nazi-loot conference at London’s National Gallery. Plus: Rachel Whiteread on “mummifying the air” at Tate Britain
FeaturePodcast
Introducing: The Art Newspaper's new weekly podcast
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ArchiveSecurity
Tate steps up security for Whiteread's Turbine Hall installation amid demonstration fears
Guards are on red alert to prevent a possible publicity stunt by Fathers 4 Justice which could prove fatal
ArchiveArt market
The London latest: It’s art, but not as Beck’s intended it
A typo on their beer bottle turns it into an instant collectors’ classic
ArchiveTate Modern
Rachel Whiteread is next, but where are the other Turbine Hall commissions now?
Most are extremely difficult to redisplay elsewhere
ArchiveHauser & Wirth
News from London: A time of transitions for Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, and Tate magazine, while Royal Academy prize-winner gets more than he bargained for
Meanwhile, Tracy Emin is compared to Chinese takeaway
ArchiveArt market
Counter Editions, the internet publisher working with artists to create original prints, is now self-funding and prospering
The small firm's success lies in their acquisition of big-name artists
ArchiveBooks
Books: Absence in art and the absent Kapoor artwork in analyses of nothing
The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work
ArchiveNews
Anish Kapoor wins Turner Prize
The three other artists on the short list were Ian Davenport, Fiona Rae and Rachel Whiteread