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Artist Dame Tracey Emin ‘proud to be British’

Speaking ahead of her new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern, Dame Tracey said art had improved her home town of Margate.

Evening Standard

Dame Tracey Emin exhibition to launch at Tate Modern

The show includes two of her most well known installations: Exorcism Of The Last Painting I Ever Made and My Bed.

Evening Standard

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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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…

The Independent UK

From Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die to Tracey Emin: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Sam Rockwell stars in Gore Verbinski’s madcap sci-fi comedy, and the YBA Goat is back with a new exhibition at the Tate Modern

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

How Tate Modern is serving up Frida Kahlo – from canvas to cuisine

The forthcoming Tate Modern retrospective, Frida: The Making of an Icon, promises to go beyond the canvas to explore the construction of an artistic legend. At a recent breakfast press-briefing at KOL, a Mexican restaurant in London, co-curator Tobias Ostrander framed the exhibition as a study in how Frida Kahlo…

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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

Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creations

The Guardian - UK

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

The Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

I explored Australia’s indigenous art legacy on a trip to the Northern Territory

As the Tate Modern stages a major retrospective of Emily Kam Kngwarry’s work, Eddi Fiegel explores the extraordinary landscapes that inspired her

The Independent UK

Tate’s greats are certainly not kept hidden from view

Letters: Roland Rudd of Tate responds to an article by Jonathan Jones that questioned the organisation’s ambition and priorities. Plus a letter from Liz Goddard on Máret Ánne Sara’s installation at Tate Modern

The Guardian - UK

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.

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The Guardian - UK

Don’t blame Maria Balshaw for Tate’s failings. Its lack of ambition goes much deeper

Tate stresses its departing director has ‘diversified’ the collection, but it has hidden its treasures and let its galleries slide into insulting incoherence – and visitors have voted with their absence

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

The Guardian - UK

Tate staff hold week-long strike over pay amid reports of workers using food banks

Union says ‘insulting’ below-inflation pay rises have left some employees struggling to afford rent and food

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Tate gallery attacker guilty of assaulting Broadmoor staff again

Jonty Bravery threw a six-year-old boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern.

The Guardian - UK

Personal details of Tate galleries job applicants leaked online

Sensitive information relates to more than 100 individuals and their referees

The Guardian - UK

Tate staff vote to strike over pay after union members reject ‘inadequate’ offer

Exclusive: Over 150 workers to strike from 26 November to 2 December, raising possibility of disruption to major shows

Evening Standard

Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern: 'A rich look at a post-colonial art explosion'

3/5 This expansive exhibition at Tate Modern brings together over 50 artists who transformed Nigeria’s cultural landscape over the last 65 years

The Guardian - UK

A city-boy reading of the Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara’s work

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Jones’s Tate Modern review, including the charge that the artworks ‘fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space’

The Guardian - UK

‘Smell is a language’: Máret Ánne Sara on why Tate’s Turbine Hall whiffs of frightened reindeer

As Sámi culture is threatened by the climate emergency and hostility from Nordic nations, the artist has built a structure of resistance: a labyrinthine artwork of animal pelts and bones based on a reindeer’s nasal passages

The Guardian - UK

Máret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more?

The Sámi artist may use reindeer skulls and bones, but her spiralling wooden fences are so slight they fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space – or the imagination

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