Rachel Whiteread has an interview in The Guardian this week, as the artist opens her first permanent sculpture in the UK, and reflects on leaving her longtime home and studio in Shoreditch. “We couldn’t stand Shoreditch any longer,” she says. “It’s just a hellhole. I know we artists contributed to making it that way [gentrified, expensive, noisy], but it had become monstrous. Everybody I know has left: every good artist.”
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