Rachel Whiteread is interviewed in The Guardian this week, where she critiques the YBA movement for its tacit approval of young artists seeking fame and fortune. “Artists now live a very different life to the ones we lived,” she says. “We had no expectations, we played hard and worked hard. Now they expect a career, they expect fame. “I stopped teaching because of that. It seemed students were only interested in being famous.”
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