As White Cube leaves London’s Hoxton Square, the BBC reports on the history – and future – of the neighborhood. When art dealer Jay Jopling opened White Cube in 2000, the neighborhood of Shoreditch transformed into an expensive art and media center, now many galleries are leaving East London with rising prices.
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The Guardian explores Rachel Whiteread‘s perspectives on the changes in East London, the attention and criticism her art receives, and her newly commissioned, frieze at the Whitechapel art gallery, which is one of the key pieces of the London 2012 festival.

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