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Article: The new Whitechapel: a lantern & refuge: this issue of Apollo celebrates the opening of the Whitechapel Gallery's extension on 5 April. As the gallery's director, Iwona Blazwick, explains to Michael Hall, the development reinforces the Whitechapel's mission, which is both international and local in outlook.(Cover story)
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Before I could talk to the Whitechapel Gallery's director, Iwona Blazwick, about its new development I had to negotiate locked steel doors, rooms crowded with furniture wrapped in polythene and interruptions from builders. 'Yes, we are behind', says Miss Blazwick. 'We should have started installing works two weeks ago.' She pauses and then smiles calmly.
Perhaps experience has taught Miss Blazwick such serene confidence. In her previous job, as head of exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, she helped to oversee the transformation of Giles Gilbert Scott's great power station into the country's most popular gallery of modern and ...
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