THE TRUTH ABOUT: 7 - The Untold Story

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I’m finally happy to take my work to America - and the just-opened White Cube New York

Back in the Nineties, I was accused of being a narcissist. Blindly myopic and self-obsessed. Thirty years later there is still no greater insult than to be called a narcissist in the cultural world. I’ve always used my life and myself as subject matter. I have never painted pictures, only…

Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: My boyfriend patted my tummy and said, ‘Hello, we’re going to kill you’

All this week I wanted to buy a tree. Today would have been my day but instead I’m sitting in bed with little Teacup by my side. She keeps puddy pawing the pink fluffy blanket that half covers us both, her little striped paws kneading away, making me feel cosy…

Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2023

‘Time is the only valuable thing’: artist Sarah Lucas on slacking, social media and her free bus pass

As Tate Britain opens a retrospective – replete with cigarettes, marrows and fried eggs – the former YBA extols the importance of being idle

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: How selfish am I? Now I see the light

My favourite thing to do, if I’m really honest, is nothing, I like to lay around thinking.

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: Living without love (again)

I still don’t feel well, my mind is so scrambled, heart keeps pounding, eyes keep burning and living hurts. That’s how it feels living without love, an inner torture like a giant panic button going off. The sound of screaming I WILL NEVER LOVE OR BE LOVED AGAIN.

Evening Standard · Aug 25, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: It’s different when you are in love

When I was 26 I had an abortion that went terribly wrong, so wrong that I could have easily died. After I had the termination I was still left with a second foetus inside me.

Evening Standard · Aug 18, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: It is different when you are in love

When I was 26 I had an abortion that went terribly wrong, so wrong that I could have easily died. After I had the termination I was still left with a second foetus inside me.

Evening Standard · Aug 18, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: You think you know what you have, but you don’t

‘I’d like to say this is not a love poem but I’d be lying’

Evening Standard · Aug 11, 2023

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I have full-on mega Black Death onslaught Covid — it is hell

This week’s an important week for me, it’s a week of giant colossal life-affirming anniversaries. It should have been a week of celebrating and cheering on my own survival running in and out of the sea, knocking back as much sparkling water as I can take and happily writing my…

Evening Standard · Jul 21, 2023

5 best art hotels in the UK

Weekend breaks with an artistic flourish can be a delight for gallery-loving Londoners, says Rosalyn Wikeley

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2023