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BIZARRE: 5 | Mind Blowing Facts

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Evening Standard

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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.

Evening Standard

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - AU

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

The Guardian - UK

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,…

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - AU

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.

The Independent UK

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

The Independent UK

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.

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin says she ‘totally accepted death’ following cancer diagnosis: ‘That’s what kept me alive’

Artist underwent a series of major surgeries for bladder cancer in 2020 and now uses a urostomy bag

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: Love letter to New York

Last night I sat on the sofa, Teacup and Pancake taking it in turns to snuggle up next to me. Their warm little bodies breathing sighs of relief, so happy to have me home. I should have been writing this column, but instead I wrote a love letter to New…

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Cat Power’s cultural highlights

The indie singer-songwriter on her favourite New York restaurant, Dave Chappelle on top form, and Tracey Emin up close

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: Why I cry every time I come to New York

Every time I come to New York I cry. I don’t cry a little, I cry a lot. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, who I’m with, if it’s hot or if it’s cold, thick snow or boiling humid, damp heat, I’m still going to cry.

The Guardian - UK

No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying

Growing numbers of hobbyists are attempting to emulate the artist and capture the truths of the human body at life drawing classes

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: My mother was spat on in the street in Hendon because my father wasn't white

Yesterday I was in Brooklyn, I went to see my installation, Exorcism of the last painting I ever made, at the Faurschou Foundation.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I had to hold my mum’s hand and tell her she was going to die

Yesterday was the anniversary of my mum’s death. Seven years, and I remember every single detail like it was yesterday. The date, October 19, hangs over me like a giant bell. There’s a slow build-up where the bell gets lower and lower until finally it’s right on top of me…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I can’t cope with the atrocities

I’ve never been able to cope with time, any kind of time. It’s why I’ve never been able to sit an exam and can’t get out the house for important events. In fact the more important, the later I will be.

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