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\n\tJack White, who growled and grinded as the singer\/guitarist of the White Stripes and has since positioned himself as a primal rock god on his own, is showing a new side as a sculptor with a show opening in a London gallery run by none other than Damien Hirst.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs chronicled in the Financial Times<\/em>, he two artists first met in 2021, when White was readying a new outpost of his Nashville-based Third Man Records store in Soho, across the street from Hirst\u2019s studio. White played a show from Hirst\u2019s balcony for the opening and caused a scene: \u201cThe guerrilla concert brought the neighbourhood to a standstill; a crowd of thousands sang along to The White Stripes\u2019 driving anthem, \u2018Seven Nation Army.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhen White showed Hirst pictures of artworks he\u2019d made as a sort of secretive side-project, Hirst said they should mount a show\u2014and five years later the result is \u201cJack White: THESE THOUGHTS MAY DISAPPEAR,\u201d opening at Newport Street Gallery on May 29 and running through September 13.<\/p>\n \n\tWhite has long shown an inclination for art. The White Stripes\u2019 second album was titled De Stijl<\/em>, after the storied Dutch art-and-design movement. And the band\u2019s iconic red-and-white all-over aesthetic was striking to anyone with a discerning eye.<\/p>\n \n\tBut he never came out as a visual artist, per se. \u201cI\u2019m trying to put music a little bit on the back burner in this scenario,\u201d he told the FT<\/em> in advance of his exhibition. \u201cI don\u2019t want it to look like, \u2018Oh, Frank Sinatra also does paintings, how cute.\u2019 That\u2019s probably why I never did a show; I wanted it to be taken as its own thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhite\u2019s artwork shows a devotion to found objects that he transforms, as well as furniture-inclined ojects that draw on his distant past as an upholsterer. His exhibition will include sculptures, furniture designs, notebooks, and photography.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAnything done well I believe can be art, and that\u2019s why Jack\u2019s work struck me as so great,\u201d Hirst told the FT<\/em>. \u201cHe covers so much ground in everything he does, and he has an enormous sensibility. He\u2019s not just painting, he\u2019s making surreal objects that can push you away yet pull you in and appeal to you against your will. He pushes the boundaries constantly, which is right up my street.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/jack-white-gallery-show-damien-hirst-1234786866\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/JW_Art_Studio-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1024″] Jack White, who growled and grinded as the singer\/guitarist of the White Stripes and has since positioned himself as a primal rock god on his own, is showing a new side as a sculptor with a show opening in a London gallery run by none other than Damien Hirst. As chronicled in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1950028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}