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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 months agoLargest-ever Tracey Emin exhibition will be a 'true celebration of living', artist says
Tate Modern will present Tracey Emin's largest-ever exhibition, A Second Life, featuring over 90 works spanning 40 years, including My Bed (1998).
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month agoTracey Emin: 'I've done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life'
Tracey Emin is internationally renowned for her coruscatingly confessional art, which for over three decades has chronicled an often tumultuous life in various media, including painting, video, textiles, neon, writing, sculpture and installation. Born in Croydon, London, and raised in the seaside town of Margate, Emin first attracted widespread attention when, as a Turner Prize nominee in 1999, she exhibited the now notorious work My Bed (1998) provoking fierce critical debate on what art could-or should-be.
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1 month agoFebruary Book Bag: from Tracey Emin's conversations about painting to a catalogue of Lucian Freud's drawings
Tracey Emin confronts illness, vulnerability and influential artworks while Beatriz González's six-decade practice reimagines power, grief and memory through provocative visual interventions.
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4 months agoLondon could 100% compete with Cannes': Aids charity UK gala debut to honour Tracey Emin
amfAR launches an inaugural London gala honoring Tracey Emin while incoming CEO Kyle Clifford, who is HIV-positive, emphasizes personal commitment to HIV/AIDS research and fundraising.
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4 months agoFrieze London diary: art historical speed dating and frozen faeces
The talks series Unexpected Views-when eight contemporary artists are invited to speak for ten minutes in front of their favourite works at the National Gallery-is always a Frieze week high point. "It's like art historical speed dating," quipped a befrocked Grayson Perry, who chose to talk about William Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode painting cycle, which he praised for its "storytelling, observation and sense of humour". He added that "humour is greatly under-rated" and that "we over-privilege misery".
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