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Guess what show you’re going to miss (if you haven’t seen it already) in DC? Rachel Whiteread’s first major museum retrospective, which closes at the National Gallery of Art this Sunday, January 13, 2019 – one of only two stops for the exhibition in the United States. So for the next video in our series Great Art You Can’t See Right Now Because of the Chuckleheads In Washington, we’re sharing with you this Rachel Whiteread documentary, since you can’t see the exhibition. Co-organized by the National Gallery of Art and Tate Britain (where it first appeared), the exhibition brings together some 100 objects from the course of the artist’s 30–year career, including drawings, photographs, architecture-scaled sculptures, archival materials, documentary materials on public projects, and several new works on view for the first time. Fortunately, you’ll have another chance to catch it at the Saint Louis Art Museum, March 17–June 9, 2019.
In 1993, Rachel Whiteread was the first woman to win Tate Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize, the same year she completed her sculpture House (1993) – a concrete cast of a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End, which was hailed as one of the greatest public sculptures by an English artist in the twentieth century. Completed in autumn of 1993 and demolished in January 1994, this documentary from Artangel features rare scenes of the creation of the house, as well as clips from the video journal that Whiteread kept about the creation of the work.
