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Tell us: what would you ask Tracey Emin?

Ahead of our upcoming Guardian Live event with Tracey Emin, we’re inviting readers around the world to be part of the conversation.

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The National Gallery’s new wing is bland, but the modern art going in it is the problem

For the National Gallery to expand its remit to include 21st-century art (hello, Tracey Emin) is something else

Evening Standard

Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern – private view for Guardian readers

Experience the artist’s largest ever exhibition at a private view hosted by the Guardian at Tate Modern in London

The Guardian - UK

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Rose Wylie, art world pioneer at 91: ‘Success, if it comes earlier, can entrap you a bit’

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2026: Last week, Rose Wylie became the first female painter to have a solo show in the Royal Academy’s main galleries. She tells Jessie Thompson about why she’s never minded being misunderstood

The Independent UK

UK’s free museums are in trouble. Should tourists start paying?

IN FOCUS: Visitors to London’s galleries and museums can see some of the finest artworks in the world without paying a penny – but for how much longer? Annabel Nugent explores the fraught debate about who should foot the bill for keeping them free of charge

The Independent UK

The YBAs renewed Britain in the 1990s. Let’s value the artists who can do the same today

Nearly 40 years ago, a group of second-year Goldsmiths fine-art students looked at the artistic landscape and saw no place for their renegade sensibilities. So they took fate into their own hands and made a show in an abandoned Port Authority building in Docklands.

Evening Standard

‘I don’t have any mirrors in my house’: Tracey Emin candidly discusses issues with body image

The artist opens up about finding it hard to look at her body, and learning to like it at the age of 62

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The Guardian view on an explosion of solo exhibitions by women: move over old masters

Editorial: From a landmark Tracey Emin show at Tate Modern to the first female painter in the Royal Academy’s main space, the art world is finally catching up

The Guardian - UK

This Week in History: Ceasefires, cyberterror and crisis in Crimea

Explore how major events between 2 and 8 March were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin at Tate Modern: She can never turn her gaze outward

3/5 Tracey Emin’s career-spanning exhibition at Tate Modern relies upon visitors to be totally invested in the artist

Evening Standard

Wallace & Gromit, Biba style and the irrepressible Tracey Emin: what to visit and see this week

When I was growing up there were three channels on the telly, which seems quaint now. You watched what was on, like it or lump it. But I have only good memories of children’s TV in the 1970s. Hiding behind a cushion as we watched Dr Who, singing along to…

The Conversation

Tracey Emin’s lust for life, gaudy Egyptian treasure and Don McCullin at 90 – the week in art

Emin reminds us of the deep power of art, Ramses II parades his megalomaniac gold and Rose Wylie’s witty paintings finally get their due

The Guardian - UK

A Second Life: Tracey Emin’s infamous bed takes centre stage in Tate Modern retrospective

Spanning four decades, the major exhibition charts Emin's fearless exploration of trauma, desire, and survival across painting, sculpture, neon, film, and performance.

Euronews

Tracey Emin: A Second Life – Tate Modern’s must-see retrospective explores trauma and transcendence

The most powerful art speaks of and to the emotions. It tackles trauma and cathartically helps us to cope with it. It acknowledges pain, suffering and betrayal. It goes beyond an aestheticised veneer to raw emotion. It seeks to touch not just the eyes, but the soul.

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The Independent UK

Artist Dame Tracey Emin says My Bed installation is like a ‘crime scene’

My Bed appears as part of her Tracey Emin: A Second Life exhibition at London’s Tate Modern, which launched on Friday.

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin calls for donations from the wealthy to keep museums free for the public

Emin’s comments come after the National Gallery revealed an £8.2m deficit

Evening Standard

Artist Dame Tracey Emin ‘proud to be British’

Speaking ahead of her new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern, Dame Tracey said art had improved her home town of Margate.

The Guardian - UK

Tracey Emin: A Second Life review – this show of undiluted love, heartache and pain left me a teary wreck

Forget the sex and drugs of the 90s. This wildly emotional exhibition shows that Emin’s life’s work has been turning suffering into sculpture, insults into poetry – and agony into art

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Euronews

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A groundbreaking Tracey Emin exhibit, Van Gogh through the lens of yellow, and the return of cinema's favourite masked maniac. Here's what to look out for this week.

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin, Britain’s greatest female artist: ‘Against death, illness or pain, art wins’

INTERVIEW: Raped at 13, written off by critics, in remission from cancer – Tracey Emin is art’s great survivor, and her new major Tate retrospective, set to be one of the year’s blockbuster shows, is the ultimate accolade. She talks to Geordie Greig about painting, pain and showing Madonna around…

The Guardian - UK

Having a stoma bag isn’t usually so bad as it’s been for Tracey Emin

Letters: Readers reflect on their experiences of urostomy after reading our interview with Tracey Emin

The Guardian - UK

Rio’s bloodiest day: inside the 20 February Guardian Weekly

The untold story of Brazil’s deadliest police raid. Plus Europe looks inward

The Guardian - UK

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

Evening Standard

Tracey Emin facing £160,000 bill to fix cladding problems on Margate’s tallest building

Artist says leaseholders are being made to pay for ‘years and years of neglect’

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s dedicated exclusively to female artists, from Frida Kahlo to Tracey Emin’: readers’ favourite unsung museums in Europe

From ancient Greek bronzes to an unusual take on Donald Trump, readers recommend galleries and collections they’ve discovered on their travels

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