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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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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.

Euronews

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…

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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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’

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

Madonna says Margate is ‘her idea of heaven’ – here’s what won her over

The Independent’s Luke Reevey visits Margate to find out why the seaside town has become so popular with the international superstar

The Independent UK

Madonna says Margate feels like a 'dream' as she visits Tracey Emin in seaside town

The pop icon shared a series of posts on Instagram documenting her visit, including photographs of herself with Tracey Emin inside the artist’s studio

Evening Standard

2-for-1 ticket offer for Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern

Book before Thursday 26 February and save £20

The Guardian - UK

‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna sings praises of artists’ paradise Margate

Star says seaside town ‘inhabited by creativity’ and shares love for a local restaurant after dropping in Tracey Emin

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‘Madonna is my idol – now she’s a regular at my Margate restaurant’

Bottega Caruso in the Kent seaside town has been named by the singer as her ‘favourite Italian restaurant’

The Independent UK

Madonna hails Margate as ‘my idea of heaven’ – as she reveals love for mysterious Italian restaurant

The Queen of Pop says visiting the seaside town ‘is like a dream’

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Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell

Munch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloom

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Tate boss Maria Balshaw on why she’s leaving the biggest job in art after nine years

INDEPENDENT STUDIO: Balshaw, the organisation’s first ever woman director, is resigning on a ‘high note’, writes Annabel Nugent

Evening Standard

The 12 London exhibitions you have to see in 2026

Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin, Marilyn Monroe, Anish Kapoor, Frida Kahlo, Es Devlin and Kate Moss are making it a star-filled year in art

The Guardian - UK

Bawdy Beryl, slick Seurat, titanic Tracey and the glory of Gaudí: the best art shows and architecture in 2026

Must-sees include Beryl Cook’s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin’s new highs, Frida Kahlo’s confessions, plus Google’s HQ and Gaudí’s finally finished fever dream

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Last-minute Christmas gifts: 18 UK presents you still have time to buy (even on Christmas Eve)

Whether it’s a wine subscription, a museum membership or life-drawing lessons, it’s not too late to grab an 11th-hour present

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A viral hit and loved by Tracey Emin: the woman who took up art at 88 – and became an Instagram sensation

Christine Hazell has progressive memory loss yet now has four shows in the works, thanks to these raw, untutored drawings of her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren – and Kizzy the dog

Euronews

Belle Époque posters, sex and body art: The most unmissable art exhibitions of 2025

From Belle Époque posters to radical performance art, 2025 delivered exhibitions that pushed boundaries and opened dialogues.

Evening Standard

Tate director Maria Balshaw to step down from role in spring 2026

Her final project will be an exhibition at Tate Modern celebrating the work of Dame Tracey Emin.

The Guardian - UK

Maria Balshaw to step down as director of Tate after nine years

Balshaw, who joined in 2017, helped steer organisation through Covid-19 and fluctuating attendance

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‘AI is scary territory’: art teachers – one 64, one 29 – on cuts, creativity and life in a career that’s under threat

There are 27% fewer art teachers in England today than there were in 2011, and the proportion of students taking arts subjects has plummeted. Here’s what it’s like to work in a job that is essential and often perilously undervalued

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TV tonight: what Turner’s private sketchbooks reveal about his life

Fans and experts consider whether the artist may have been neurodivergent. Plus: inside the biggest Irish dancing challenge in the world. Here’s what to watch this evening

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