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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

The Guardian - UK

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’

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

‘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’

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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