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What to see at Art Basel 2024, as the fair arrives at its hometown

Art Basel 2024, the fair of all fairs, runs 13-16 June, with 285 international exhibitors and a long list of side shows and projects

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A Little Art Education by Lynn Barber review – pocket portraits that are a breath of fresh air

Star interviewer, provoker of the Chapman brothers and the woman who made Howard Hodgkin cry… Barber’s slim book about her obsession with artists – particularly those who smoke – is wonderfully entertaining

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One vision, 4000 artists and a country transformed: why the next British PM must copy Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s New Deal gave artists like Alice Neel and Lee Krasner a lifeline during a time of crisis – and it changed the face of America. Whoever wins the UK election should take heed

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First Thing: Jury deliberations begin in Trump criminal trial

Judge Juan Merchan tells jury ‘you are the judgers of facts’. Plus, nearly 5,000 Russians under 24 thought to have died so far in Ukraine

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The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances

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King hosts celebrity guests at Buckingham Palace garden party to champion creative industries

Celeb guests included Maya Jama, Louis Theroux and Sir Ridley Scott

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OPINION - Vandals and kill-joys ruin London's public art like Banksy — let us ordinary people enjoy it

I’m not being funny but… we can’t have nice things. I’m talking about art. The latest in London art news has seen Banksy creating new work in Finsbury Park — a beautiful mural behind a real tree that gives the appearance of leaves. A few weeks ago Banksy confirmed it…

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From Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire to Renegade Nell – a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

The new generation of ghoul-getters meet the New York originals, and Sally Wainwright stands and delivers with her drama about an 18th-century highwaywoman

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Play-Doh photos, Emin’s studio show and Munch-drunk love – the week in art

Plus 500 years worth of children land in Derbyshire and a baroque zealot flatters his King in oil paint – all in your weekly dispatch

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Life’s rich tapestry: the unsung wonders of textile art

Fibre art has long been a subversive medium. A new show at the Barbican unravels its power to reflect on everything from giving birth to racial oppression

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: When I was 14, I used to have sex every Friday night in the back of someone’s van — they were 22

The saddest book I ever read was The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. What made it incredibly sad is the friend that gave me the book had been having an affair with my boyfriend.

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: It's not death I fear, it's the torture on the way – so this act of kindness cheered me

This week I felt a bit sorry for myself. As a rule I hate being pitiful, it’s pathetic because it never makes the situation any better, but this week I couldn’t help it.

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Shoreditch building where artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas had their legendary shop for sale for £1.5m

The property was converted into a four-bedroom house by its current owner who moved in just after the YBAs

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The best art and architecture of 2023

Our critics’ high points include a ceramic wedding cake you can climb inside to Alice Neel’s fearless portraits, plus a new children’s V&A and a school with lumpy yellow walls

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Tracey Emin recovering in Thailand after her ‘intestine nearly exploded’

Visual artist, who has undergone several surgeries following a cancer diagnosis in 2020, said she experienced ‘horrible complications’ exacerbated by flying

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: 'I was away from home, alone and in unbearable pain. Then I realised I’d shit myself'

This week I cried a few times. The first time was strangely unexpected. I was talking to the person I love when something in me snapped and I realised I was thousands of miles away. I wanted them to jump through the screen of my phone and hold me.

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NGV Triennial 2023 review: plenty of showstoppers – and cheek – in another blockbuster show

With more than 120 artists including Tracey Emin, Yoko Ono and David Shrigley, there’s something for everyone at Melbourne’s major art event. Just don’t try to see it all at once

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From There’s Something in the Barn to Peter Gabriel: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Evil elves ruin a perfectly pleasant Norwegian B&B, while the former Genesis frontman finally shows his working-out

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: I wonder if the person who raped me when I was 13 ever thinks about it?

It’s very hard for me to write when I don’t feel well, especially when I have jet-lag and feel brain-dead, but I’ve felt like this for weeks now. Like I’ve been hit round the head with a giant rubber club. I have tinnitus 24 hours a day, excruciating eye pain,…

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From Tracey Emin to Kiki Smith: National Gallery of Australia puts art by women in the spotlight

A new exhibition in Canberra charts how women artists of the 20th century have been consumed with the body – and changed the way it has been depicted

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Art of the body and heart exposed at National Gallery

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: I've suffered through E.coli hell to see the work of the great Louise Bourgeois

It’s 6am in the morning, I’m in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been here for about 30 hours now and to be honest I’ve spent most of the time asleep, dreaming. Strange dreams mainly to do with death and journeys and art and fear. In fact, all to do with fear.

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: I feel I smell like a public loo at a Fifties train station, but I'm loved

I came back from New York determined not to get the PEBs — for anyone not in the art world and unfamiliar with the term, PEB stands for Post Exhibition Blues.

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George Osborne gives major update on British Museum deal with Greece over Elgin Marbles

The safety of the Parthenon sculptures was questioned after a high-profile theft at the museum was announced earlier this year

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George Osborne hopes British Museum reaches deal with Greece over Elgin Marbles

The safety of the Parthenon sculptures was questioned after a high-profile theft at the museum was announced earlier this year.

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