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  • Rachel Whiteread and Walter Sickert

    Rachel Whiteread and Walter Sickert

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    Andrew Green
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    It might be a sign of increasing age, but these days I prefer the quieter Tate Britain to the glitz and gargantuism of Tate Modern.  Last weekend we went there early to see the retrospective of the sculptor Rachel Whiteread.  Most of the works are shown together in a single undivided room and there weren’t…

  • London: scene of flight, scene of destruction

    London: scene of flight, scene of destruction

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    Andrew Green
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    Fleeing from the noise and heat of the midday traffic we took our sandwiches to a bench in a small public garden off Marylebone High Street.  What we’d chanced upon was the site of the old St Marylebone church, across the road from its 1817 replacement.  Nothing remains of the first three churches (the current…