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The Arts Intel Report

Tracey Emin

September 21, 2019
Vicolo Dei Catinari, 3, 00186 Roma RM, Italy

Nothing is sacred to the artist Tracey Emin—not women, sex, or (especially) herself. If honesty is an unmade bed, Emin is pulling back the sheets. “The narcissism behind what I do,” says Emin, “the self, self, self”—this is where her art takes its energy. Drawing as well from the Expressionists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, Emin’s mixed-media approach is as tumultuous as her inner world. —E.C.