Artists studios: the fight for space in New York, the Whitechapel show, photographing Paula Rego at work

Published: Feb. 25, 2022, 12:01 a.m.

b'As an exhibition opens at the Whitechapel Gallery in London focusing on artists\\u2019 studios over the last century, we take an in-depth look at the subject. The artist, critic and activist William Powhida discusses the Artist Studio Affordability Project in New York and how developers and gentrification have forced artists\\u2019 communities to breaking point. We take a tour of the Whitechapel exhibition with the gallery\\u2019s director Iwona Blazwick, and explore works by Kerry James Marshall, Paul McCarthy, Laboratoire Agit\\u2019Art, Alina Szapocznikow, Tehching Hsieh and Egon Schiele, among others. And in this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week, the photographer Eamonn McCabe, who has made a series of photographs of artists in their studios, talks about his visit to Paula Rego\\u2019s space in Camden Town, London, in 2004.


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