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Rachel Whiteread at the Hammer

Article: Rachel Whiteread at the Hammer

Posted January 29th, 2010, 4:01 PM by

Didn’t I just say that people are crazy about artist’s notebooks? We had Tim Burton’s teenage napkin scrawls at MoMA and the New York Academy of Art’s behind-the-scenes journal exhibition and now, with a fresh approach to the idea is “Rachel Whiteread Drawings” at LA’s Hammer Museum. Whiteread’s sculptures focus on the space that structures and physical objects don’t inhabit and most often take the form of architectural casts, as with “House,” a cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house. “House” won her the Turner Prize in 1993, and she is still the only woman to whom the prize has been awarded.

Illuminated manuscript: R. Crumb's Bible

Article: Illuminated manuscript: R. Crumb's Bible

Posted November 23rd, 2009, 2:11 PM by

Just in time to make your Christmas shopping list is R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis,” now on display at the Hammer Museum. Display is really the wrong word; It’s more of an interactive exhibition. Every page, all 200 of them, is framed and hung and yes, people really do start “in the beginning” and read their way along the wall to the end. Why, you might ask, wouldn’t you just buy the book and read it sitting down? What’s presented at the museum are Crumb’s original drawings, including all his corrections and whiteout marks. The pages “become incredibly alive when you see the hand of the artist in the work,” says Crumb’s gallerist, Paul Morris. In fact, while Crumb was perusing the exhibit, he noticed one last mistake and took the page out of its frame to fix it.