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Jack the Ripper museum in Whitechapel to be sold


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image captionThe six-storey building has a guide price of £685,000
A Whitechapel museum dedicated to the notorious Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper is to be sold at auction.
The six-storey building, on Cable Street, has a guide price of £685,000, and does not come with the grisly artefacts.
The Ripper, who murdered and mutilated at least five women, has never been identified.
When it opened six years ago, the museum was criticised for glamorising violence against women.
The property is described by Auction House London as a well-located mid terrace with potential for redevelopment .
The successful buyer will have access to rooms decorated with a Ripper theme, as well as crime scene reconstructions and a Victorian mortuary chamber. ....

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The Quietus | Features | Craft/Work | There's A Ghost In My House: An Interview With Rachel Whiteread


John Quin
, April 17th, 2021 08:32
John Quin interviews the artist after the opening of her new show Internal Objects at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London
RACHEL WHITEREAD, Doppelgänger, 2021 (detail)
Corrugated iron, beech, pine, oak, household paint, and mixed media
280 x 445 x 450 cm © Rachel Whiteread Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Courtesy Gagosian
Rachel Whiteread was born in Essex in 1963. In 1993 she came to prominence in with
House when she cast a Victorian terraced house due for demolition in concrete. The work drew controversy and Tower Hamlets Borough Council had the work demolished at the beginning of 1994.
Whiteread heard of the decision to destroy ....

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