The Latest Breaking News from Tracey Emin

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

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.

A groundbreaking Tracey Emin exhibit, Van Gogh through the lens of yellow, and the return of cinema's favourite masked maniac. Here's what to look out for this week.

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…

Letters: Readers reflect on their experiences of urostomy after reading our interview with Tracey Emin

The untold story of Brazil’s deadliest police raid. Plus Europe looks inward

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

Artist says leaseholders are being made to pay for ‘years and years of neglect’

From ancient Greek bronzes to an unusual take on Donald Trump, readers recommend galleries and collections they’ve discovered on their travels