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Tracey Emin Chose This Farrow & Ball Paint for the Backdrop to Her Tate Modern Retrospective — It's a Color That Makes You Feel Calm, Attentive, and Present

Inspired by the unusual pigmentation of mud and cockles mixing on a Norfolk beach, the color lends a night sky-like atmosphere to the landmark show of one of Britain's all-time greatest artists

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V&A Museum deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Chinese censors

Chinese printers objected to a map of China and an image of Lenin which fell foul of Beijing’s censorship body

Evening Standard

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer

Exclusive: Victoria and Albert Museum has deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing censors from exhibition publications

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The National Gallery’s £750m new wing has reignited London’s art turf war

“When should painters become old masters?” Former National Gallery director Philip Hendy put that question to then Tate director John Rothenstein almost 70 years ago. Founded in 1897 as the National Gallery’s annexe for British Art, by the 1950s Tate had developed into a gallery of modern as well as…

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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

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

‘A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’: why Tate has lent an LS Lowry painting to a school

Sending painting to artist’s namesake school in Salford is a first for gallery, and has brought huge benefits

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LS Lowry artwork goes on display in school

It is the first time the Tate has loaned a work from its collection to a school.

Evening Standard

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

Edvard Munch’s formative influence on Paula Rego revealed in unearthed painting

‘It’s so impressive that you can’t imagine,’ wrote a 16-year-old Rego to her mother after seeing a Munch exhibition in London in 1951

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

UK’s free museums are in trouble. Should tourists start paying?

IN FOCUS: Visitors to London’s galleries and museums can see some of the finest artworks in the world without paying a penny – but for how much longer? Annabel Nugent explores the fraught debate about who should foot the bill for keeping them free of charge

The Independent 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.

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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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Dóra Maurer obituary

Hungarian artist and teacher whose avant-garde works ranged from painting and photography to performance

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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.

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Tracey Emin: A Second Life – Tate Modern’s must-see retrospective explores trauma and transcendence

The most powerful art speaks of and to the emotions. It tackles trauma and cathartically helps us to cope with it. It acknowledges pain, suffering and betrayal. It goes beyond an aestheticised veneer to raw emotion. It seeks to touch not just the eyes, but the soul.

The Independent UK

Artist Dame Tracey Emin says My Bed installation is like a ‘crime scene’

My Bed appears as part of her Tracey Emin: A Second Life exhibition at London’s Tate Modern, which launched on Friday.

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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Is the UK’s golden era of free museum entry coming to an end?

The National Gallery’s latest financial woes have brought the possibility of charging visitors back into the frame

The Conversation

What the National Gallery staff cuts reveal about the state of arts funding

London’s National Gallery has launched a “voluntary exit” scheme for staff to address an £8.2 million deficit, with the possibility of redundancies to follow. The news bodes ill for cultural institutions and cuts, in contrast to the recent announcement of additional cultural funding from the UK government.

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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