Dame Tracey Emin reveals heartbreaking double blow Dame Tracey Emin has opened up about her recent heartbreaking double blow. BANG Premier · Sep 12
Tracey Emin’s brother Alan dies as artist is admitted into hospital: ‘Every heartbreak feels like the heaviest weight’ The 63-year-old artist received her four-year all-clear for cancer in 2024 The Independent UK · Sep 12
Kapoor’s blockbusting blobs, terrible Tudors and Emin’s proteges – the week in art Lose yourself in Anish Kapoor’s black holes while Horrible Histories’ illustrator visits Preston and Margate hosts Tracey Emin’s students’ graduation show – all in your weekly dispatch The Guardian - UK · Aug 21
See the Light: Tracey Emin and Steve McQueen illuminate Durham gallery’s revival Art of international significance planned for £17m redevelopment of museum whose closure sparked uproar The Guardian - UK · Aug 21
Must-see London art exhibitions closing in August 2026 From David Hockney’s final Normandy frieze to Tracey Emin at Tate Modern, these blockbuster London art exhibitions are entering their final days. Here are the top summer shows to see before they close Evening Standard · Aug 19
Lobster dresses and unmade beds: The best exhibitions to see in Europe From riveting retrospectives to perspective-shifting showcases, 2026 has already spoilt us with an incredible selection of exhibitions. Here's a round-up of the best ongoing ones to catch across Europe. Euronews · Aug 14
‘Men have 30 seconds to get a laugh. Women have 10’: standup Bella Hull on proving herself in rough clubs She started standup at 17 playing ‘unsafe basements’ and braving revolting hecklers – and even worse headline acts. Now she writes for SNL and is giving Edinburgh a blast of her surreal comedy The Guardian - UK · Aug 10
‘So full-frontal, you feel like a voyeur for looking’: Lindsey Mendick: Where You End and I Begin review With snogging snails, conjoined lovers and her own pug Telly as Jesus, the ceramicist sculpts a mangled mythology of her own relationships The Guardian - UK · Jul 3
The Guardian view on Frida Kahlo the icon: a thin line between canonisation and commercialisation Editorial: The Mexican artist’s legacy is far greater than the kitsch. She is a much loved symbol of rebellion and resilience The Guardian - UK · Jun 26
‘Rude, heavy-drinking and a committed communist’: the Frida Kahlo you can’t buy in the gift shop The artist’s likeness has become a symbol of resistance and heroism – but the truth is more complicated. As a major exhibition opens in London, has brand Frida obscured the real Kahlo? The Guardian - UK · Jun 25
The reason why Tate’s blockbuster Frida Kahlo show has so few works by the Mexican artist ART: The major summer show looks at how Kahlo has become an icon, writes Annabel Nugent, and it’s something that a leading feminist art historian says the painter actually initiated herself The Independent UK · Jun 23
Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art Frida Kahlo took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation and her work takes you deep into her mystery. So why is this show padded out with responses by lesser artists? The Guardian - UK · Jun 22
Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux tapestry The Guardian - UK · Jun 19
Cats, flowers and Harry Hill’s car on fire – RA Summer Exhibition review Bowie karaoke in a cupboard, a gross David Gamble self-portrait and Harriet Porter’s serene silver pot are a welcome distraction from the tidal wave of landscapes and famous artists’ hand-me-downs for sale The Guardian - UK · Jun 9
The Guardian - UK · Jun 9 Win a Tate membership, Tracey Emin merch and more Enter our competition to snag lunch for two, an arty blanket and a year of free Tate entry as part of our partnership with Tate for Emin’s A Second Life exhibition
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The Guardian - UK · May 19 ‘This is mine, I own it’: how Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo inspired me to make meaning out of pain Emin’s unsparing examination of her cancer and Kahlo’s intensely imagined response to traumatic injury moved our writer to take self-portraits while recovering from a serious operation
The Independent UK · May 19 James McNeill Whistler: Mum isn’t the only word at this magnificent Tate Britain show 5/5 The first major exhibition on the American artist for 30 years reveals a showman whose sublime, minimal artworks far transcend the famous painting of his mother that has often overshadowed them
Livingetc · May 3 Tracey Emin Chose This Farrow & Ball Paint for the Backdrop to Her Tate Modern Retrospective — It's a Color That Makes You Feel Calm, Attentive, and Present Inspired by the unusual pigmentation of mud and cockles mixing on a Norfolk beach, the color lends a night sky-like atmosphere to the landmark show of one of Britain's all-time greatest artists
The Guardian - UK · Apr 29 ‘Still lots to talk about’: UK galleries team up to shine light on female artists Tracey Emin among creators on show at Making Her Mark, a project by Penzance, Worcester and Kirkcaldy galleries
The Guardian - UK · Apr 27 ‘Tracey Emin said they’re all about death’: Johnnie Shand Kydd on his dog-walk photographs – and capturing the hard-partying YBAs He shot the YBAs boozing, canoodling – and shaking up the art scene. Now the photographer has found inspiration in some other unruly characters: his lurchers. We join him for walkies in rural Suffolk
The Guardian - UK · Apr 14 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.
Evening Standard · Apr 11 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
The Guardian - UK · Mar 11 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 Independent UK · Mar 8 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