Tag: Tracey Emin
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A Second Life, Not a Reinvention: Tracey Emin at Louisiana
At Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Tracey Emin’s retrospective brings nearly four decades of work together, revealing the remarkable continuity between her early installations and the increasingly assured paintings of recent years. Almost thirty years after My Bed (1998) became one of the most controversial works in British contemporary art, it is fascinating to encounter…
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Tracey Emin: The Life of a Line
From the delicate bird drawings of the 1990s to the monumental paintings of her later career, Tracey Emin has developed one of the most recognisable visual languages in contemporary British art. Her work belongs to a long tradition of artists who have understood drawing as a means of examining the most difficult aspects of human…
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Tracey Emin: From Cool Britannia to Enduring Voice
Tracey Emin has always been more than the enfant terrible of the Young British Artists. Emerging in the 1990s as one of the central figures of Cool Britannia, she became a cultural lightning rod: provocative, confessional, uncompromising. Her work — from the notorious My Bed (1998) to her searing neon texts — has often been…
