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Tracey Emin’s lust for life, gaudy Egyptian treasure and Don McCullin at 90 – the week in art

Emin reminds us of the deep power of art, Ramses II parades his megalomaniac gold and Rose Wylie’s witty paintings finally get their due

The Guardian - UK

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

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.

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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 calls for donations from the wealthy to keep museums free for the public

Emin’s comments come after the National Gallery revealed an £8.2m deficit

The Independent UK

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

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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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

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.

Euronews

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

Having a stoma bag isn’t usually so bad as it’s been for Tracey Emin

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

The Guardian - UK

Rio’s bloodiest day: inside the 20 February Guardian Weekly

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

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

Tracey Emin facing £160,000 bill to fix cladding problems on Margate’s tallest building

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

Evening Standard

‘It’s dedicated exclusively to female artists, from Frida Kahlo to Tracey Emin’: readers’ favourite unsung museums in Europe

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

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Madonna says Margate is ‘her idea of heaven’ – here’s what won her over

The Independent’s Luke Reevey visits Margate to find out why the seaside town has become so popular with the international superstar

Evening Standard

Madonna says Margate feels like a 'dream' as she visits Tracey Emin in seaside town

The pop icon shared a series of posts on Instagram documenting her visit, including photographs of herself with Tracey Emin inside the artist’s studio

The Guardian - UK

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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‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna sings praises of artists’ paradise Margate

Star says seaside town ‘inhabited by creativity’ and shares love for a local restaurant after dropping in Tracey Emin

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The Independent UK

‘Madonna is my idol – now she’s a regular at my Margate restaurant’

Bottega Caruso in the Kent seaside town has been named by the singer as her ‘favourite Italian restaurant’

The Independent UK

Madonna hails Margate as ‘my idea of heaven’ – as she reveals love for mysterious Italian restaurant

The Queen of Pop says visiting the seaside town ‘is like a dream’

The Guardian - UK

Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell

Munch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloom

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

Evening Standard

The 12 London exhibitions you have to see in 2026

Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin, Marilyn Monroe, Anish Kapoor, Frida Kahlo, Es Devlin and Kate Moss are making it a star-filled year in art

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

The Guardian - UK

Last-minute Christmas gifts: 18 UK presents you still have time to buy (even on Christmas Eve)

Whether it’s a wine subscription, a museum membership or life-drawing lessons, it’s not too late to grab an 11th-hour present

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