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Tate at a turning point: new director must confront unwieldy ‘beast’ of an art institution

As Maria Balshaw steps down after nine years, her successor at the gallery needs to forge a fresh financial and cultural path

The Guardian - UK

'Sad step backward' for boy thrown from Tate Modern balcony

Family of boy who survived a 100 ft fall from London gallery but suffered life-changing injuries give sad update

Evening Standard

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.

The Guardian - UK

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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

Evening Standard

‘Money! Glamour! Yachts! But not for me!’ Adrian Searle relives 30 glorious years as our chief art critic

He has faced off a fighter jet, ridden a motorised bed and even been a Beano character. As he steps down, the mighty Guardian critic delivers his insights, confesses his crimes and relives his highs

The Guardian - UK

The UK’s free-to-access museums are the envy of the world. Charging for entry would be a big mistake

There are better ways to raise money than jeopardising a model that draws visitors to Britain and has huge benefits for the wider economy, asks Tate interim director Karin Hindsbo

The Guardian - UK

Tate to feature first Monet exhibition as organisation announces 2027 exhibition programme

Next year will also see the arts organisation celebrate David Hockney’s 90th birthday and the reopening of the Tate Liverpool

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Tate Modern Turbine Hall to showcase David Hockney opera sets

Immersive exhibition will form the centrepiece of the celebration of the artist’s 90th birthday next year

The Guardian - UK

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 Guardian - UK

The YBAs renewed Britain in the 1990s. Let’s value the artists who can do the same today

Nearly 40 years ago, a group of second-year Goldsmiths fine-art students looked at the artistic landscape and saw no place for their renegade sensibilities. So they took fate into their own hands and made a show in an abandoned Port Authority building in Docklands.

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on an explosion of solo exhibitions by women: move over old masters

Editorial: From a landmark Tracey Emin show at Tate Modern to the first female painter in the Royal Academy’s main space, the art world is finally catching up

The Guardian - UK

Tracey Emin at Tate Modern: She can never turn her gaze outward

3/5 Tracey Emin’s career-spanning exhibition at Tate Modern relies upon visitors to be totally invested in the artist

Evening Standard

A Second Life: Tracey Emin’s infamous bed takes centre stage in Tate Modern retrospective

Spanning four decades, the major exhibition charts Emin's fearless exploration of trauma, desire, and survival across painting, sculpture, neon, film, and performance.

Euronews

WatchHouse's Newest London Coffee Shop Might Be Its Best-Designed Yet — Here's Where It Is, and How to Capture Its "Ornate-but-Industrial" Style

Unveiled this week, the group's Millennium Bridge location is "a distillation of the Thames Embankment, its monumental architecture, its shifting light, and its fleeting atmospheres"

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Evening Standard

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

The Independent UK

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…

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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 Conversation

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

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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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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

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