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<p>A self portrait of Tracey Emin from June 2024</p>

interview

Tracey Emin: ‘Against death, illness or pain, art wins’

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 Margate

<p>‘Kissing’, a segment in Chris (Simpsons Artist)’s new series of shorts ‘I’m Glad I Know That Now Thank You’</p>

Interview

Meet the internet’s most famous artist (whose work is completely mad)

<p>‘The Pilgrim’ by Gwen John</p>

Gwen John: Strange Beauties is a subtly intense study of ordinary life

<p>The fact the 70m embroidered cloth, which depicts the 1066 Norman invasion and Battle of Hastings, has survived this long is a miracle, writes David Hockney</p>

Why it’s madness to move the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain

<p>‘Model with Lightbulb’, 1943</p>

The Tate seeks to rescue Lee Miller from the role of model and muse

Her unflappably cool eye and nose for the telling detail seem never to desert her, even in the most harrowing circumstances

The Tate seeks to rescue Lee Miller from the role of model and muse

Her unflappably cool eye and nose for the telling detail seem never to desert her, even in the most harrowing circumstances

<p>‘Model with Lightbulb’, 1943</p>

<p>‘The Grinder’ (2023) by Mohammed Sami</p>

A conservative shift could undermine the Turner Prize’s radical legacy

<p>‘The Three Dancers’ (1925)</p>

Familiar Picasso works are transformed by Tate Modern’s bold setting

<p>Bowie applying makeup as Ziggy Stardust</p>

David Bowie Centre juxtaposes the momentous and quirkily trivial

<p>The life and times of model-artist-photographer Lee Miller has captivated millions since her death in 1977</p>

In Focus

What can another Lee Miller exhibition tell us? A lot, it turns out

<p>The life and times of model-artist-photographer Lee Miller has captivated millions since her death in 1977</p>

In Focus

What can another Lee Miller exhibition tell us? A lot, it turns out

<p>Thom Yorke (left) and Stanley Donwood with some of their artwork ready to go on display at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford</p>

Reviews

Art snobs won’t find much to love at Radiohead’s Ashmolean exhibit

<p>As a student, Lucy Jones, who has cerebral palsy, initially struggled with the intense scrutiny required for self-portraiture</p>

Interview

Artist Lucy Jones: ‘I use the portrait to look out at you’

<p>'The Crows (Die Krähen)' by Anselm Kiefer (2019)</p>

Anselm Kiefer takes on Van Gogh, with results both heroic and absurd

<p>‘Reverse’ 2002-2003 by Jenny Saville</p>

YBA Jenny Saville paints flesh at its most excessive and brutalised

<p>Edward Burra: ‘The Band’, 1934</p>

How two queer artists responded to the mundanity of inter-war England

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