I never did make it to the new Whitney. Instead, we had a cup of tea with Sean Scully nearby in a large studio with its original wooden roof and a series of large paintings from the 1980s which he has bought back at auction and will show next year in an exhibition in China. He and the PRA discussed different ways of achieving a shiny surface in paint (it was more technical than this implies).
This is the studio:-
The work:-
And the two artists together:-




