The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’
In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances
September 2023
Aboudia blindsides market experts as bestselling artist of 2022
Artist from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sold 75 artworks in auction, topping Damien Hirst’s 73
May 2019
Saatchi Gallery covers up artworks after Muslim visitors' complaints
Paintings by SKU deemed blasphemous for combining Islamic text with nude images
January 2018
Secret tapes shed light on Francis Bacon’s bitter battle with Lucian Freud
Conversations between Francis Bacon and a friend throw light on the long-running feud between two giants of modern British art
December 2016
Why is the Turner prize failing to engage with politics?
With the arts under pressure, the Turner should bring audiences into contact with work that reflects the political realities of our times. Instead, it’s playing it safe
April 2016
Jenny Saville: 'I used to be anti-beauty'
Sex, psychos and sharks: did Britart change the world?
January 2016
Champagne Life review – from the monumental to the mildly insulting
Champagne Life review – all-female show doesn’t make Saatchi a feminist
August 2015
Jonathan Jones on art
1997 or bust: how Tony Blair and Damien Hirst let us all down
Jonathan Jones
New Labour’s landslide victory and Charles Saatchi’s YBA show promised a new Britain that was keen to shove conservatism aside. What’s happened since is awe-inspiring and angering
May 2015
Grayson Perry review – 'Like being trapped in a room full of trendy folk talking bollocks'
Turner Contemporary, Margate Provincial Punk – a showcase of Grayson Perry’s prints, pots and tapestries – shows that his artworks are as meaningless and annoying as his silly films
February 2015
The 10 best ...
The 10 best art patrons
As a new show at the National Gallery explores the influence of Paul Durand-Ruel, Rachel Cooke highlights other great patrons and collectors
October 2014
Macho diets: from Lord Falconer’s Diet Coke and apples to Charles Saatchi’s nine eggs a day
Falconer’s five-stone weight loss is the latest in a string of unusual regimes – so what’s with the ostentatious suffering that goes with so many alpha male diets, asks Stuart Heritage
August 2014
Francesca Grillo: life after Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson
Jessica Valenti column
From the porn star and the MMA fighter to Rihanna and Chris Brown, is a photo of domestic abuse not enough?
Jessica Valenti
July 2014
Laura Bates on everyday sexism
Making art out of Charles Saatchi's throttling of Nigella Lawson further normalises violence against women
Tracey Emin's Bed is sold at auction for over £2.5m
June 2014
Shortcuts
What is the painting of Charles Saatchi throttling Nigella Lawson really saying?
Tracey Emin stands by My Bed as it goes on sale for £1.2m
May 2014
Tracey Emin's My Bed is up for sale at what may be a dream price to some
The furore around the work, complete with vodka bottles and pregnancy tests, helped to give lift-off to Emin's career
