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Rachel Whiteread hits the countryside, Derby’s great hero and museums reinvented – the week in art

A brand new outdoor/indoor art foundation opens with a spectacular show by the British sculptor, and the V&A unveils its extraordinary public Storehouse – all in your weekly dispatch

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Rachel Whiteread review – leafy woods, glorious views and beautiful, brutal blights

From a concrete cast of a mortuary table to another of a staircase, this spectacular exhibition provides a perfect setting for the Turner prize winner’s stark sepulchres

The Guardian - UK

War Paint – Women at War review – female war artists get their moment in the spotlight

From quilting in Japanese prisoner camps to graffiti in Sudan via Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling and Lee Miller, this documentary covers myriad artistic responses to conflict

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Pandemic effects linger, and art invites us to pause and behold distance, time and trauma

When I finished the manuscript for my book The Pause, which looked at the COVID-19 pandemic through the idea of “pausing,” a notion frequently invoked in pandemic discussions of suspended and cancelled activities, I was happy to be done and not to think about the pandemic anymore.

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The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances

The Guardian - UK

From If to Billie Eilish: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

John Krasinski and Ryan Reynolds go family-friendly in their new imaginary-friends comedy, while the singer swaps introspection for lust on her long-awaited new album

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‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

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Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep

Tate Britain, LondonOnce the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote

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Artist Sarah Sze: ‘We’ve created a system that can destroy us. That’s new’

The New York artist celebrated for her complex installations is creating work for Artangel in an abandoned waiting room at a London station. She talks about time, technology and ‘working like crazy’

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An arty weekend in … north Norfolk

Discover Rachel Whiteread and Henry Moore in a PM’s parkland, Emin and Freud in the pub, and a picture-postcard beach

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Phyllida Barlow, British sculptor, dies aged 78

Artist rose to international prominence after four decades teaching art, and was made a dame in 2021

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Women’s History Month: Top photos from The Independent archive

This Women’s History Month we are highlighting the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society

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Architectural vision for London station is little more than smoke and mirrors

Dazzling computer-generated images of a newly revamped Liverpool Street do little to establish its merits or flaws

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Rachel Whiteread calls for end to Trafalgar Square fourth plinth sculptures

Artist says programme needs ‘rethink’ amid evidence that sculptors cannot find permanent homes for their work

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What happened to Trafalgar Square’s previous fourth plinth statues?

While most of the artworks are in storage, some went on tour and some have found permanent homes

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Rachel Whiteread Covid print to feature in Government Art Collection

Untitled (Bubble) reflects microscopic form of Covid and will be displayed in government offices in UK and abroad

The Independent UK

Artist Dame Rachel Whiteread wins Robson Orr TenTen Award for Covid-themed work

Each year, the prize is awarded to an outstanding British artist by the Government Art Collection.

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Lake District slag heap could become landmark public art

Artist Roger Hiorns pitching alongside Rachel Whiteread, Piet Oudolf and Olafur Eliasson in scheme to celebrate Cumbrian coast

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‘I was traumatised at its demolition’ – Rachel Whiteread on making House

‘Charles Saatchi offered to put it on wheels and take it to his gallery – but I wanted it to stay at its location’

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Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism

Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville and co explore the age of ‘lost futures’ in a group show that works best unimpeded by theory

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Pirate queens, heavenly twins and a curious talking horse – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

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