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
October 2023
The great women's art bulletin
Sarah Lucas’s joyful bodies express freedom – and are a riposte to Sunak’s binary Britain
Katy Hessel
Philip Guston; Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – tragi-comic cartoonery
September 2023
Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – bulging tights, pervy plinths and kinky boots
In this gloriously filthy show, the sculptor collides old and new work to make an exhilarating cornucopia of sex, jokes and death
‘Time is the only valuable thing’: artist Sarah Lucas on slacking, social media and her free bus pass
As Tate Britain opens a retrospective – replete with cigarettes, marrows and fried eggs – the former YBA extols the importance of being idle
Going out, staying in
From Expend4bles to Marina Abramović: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Whether you’re after Hollywood beefcakes or intense performance art, our critics have you covered for the next seven days
February 2023
Big Women review – Sarah Lucas’s gal gang seek to shock
The former YBA has curated a show of 25 female artists – but the effect is superficial and cliquey
August 2022
Everyone’s a cynic! Film, TV, music, books and art about pessimism
From Wall Street savagery to withering R&B, choose art that shows humanity at its most misanthropic
July 2022
London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design
Design Museum show to look at how movement revolutionised arts from furniture to fashion
September 2021
Home is where the art is: Suffolk’s creatives throw open their doors
Leading contemporary artists who locked down in their studios give East Anglia a new cultural landscape
March 2021
'My pubic hair paintings could hang in your living room': the artists reclaiming women's sexuality
A Woman’s Right to Pleasure is a new compendium celebrating female erotic art. We meet its contributors, including the photographer who turned her vagina into a camera
September 2020
'He came out of the womb dancing!' Stars relive their wild times with Michael Clark
From Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin: Soho's historic Colony Room Club – in pictures
March 2020
Hard-partying ex-YBA Sarah Lucas: 'I was pretty wild'
As the shamelessly bawdy artist thunders towards her 60s, she talks about knobby guys, life in metal-detecting country – and coping with all her hair falling out last year
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The best art of the 21st century
Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath – they’re all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000
January 2019
The big picture
The big picture: Sarah Lucas’s Got a Salmon On
Sarah Lucas plays with a salmon – and gender constructs – as British art hits a peak in 1997
October 2018
Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair
There’s a less priapic feeling for Frieze’s 2018 edition, with female artists to the fore. Helen Chadwick urinates in snow, Hayv Kahraman makes a genital donation and Sarah Lucas artfully places biscuits on a naked man
July 2018
Herstory review – a surprising, alarming odyssey through art by women
From sand-filled tights to a BDSM portrait, this Lancashire gallery gets a major lift with a provocative show
April 2018
Art Weekly newsletter
Magical Monet and Tracey Emin's message for travellers – the week in art
Emin has a warm welcome for everyone arriving at St Pancras station, as the National Gallery probes Monet’s mind and Linder Sterling roughs up Chatsworth House – all in your weekly dispatch
March 2018
Gentrification's ground zero: the rise and fall of Hoxton Square
Twenty-five years ago, this London neighbourhood was the wild centre of the YBA art boom – now it’s a corporate “campus”. So what happened to Hoxton?
