In 1988, at Goldsmiths, University of London, a lively group of classmates banded together to organize an exhibition, among them Damien Hirst, Angela Bulloch, Gillian Wearing, and Simon Patterson. They titled the show “Freeze.” The artist Abigail Lane has explained why. “We were eating frisée lettuce. God knows who said what, but then it started a little conversation that led from frisée to ‘Freeze.’” The group would become wildly successful for its experimental work, and was soon dubbed the Young British Artists, or YBAs. Today they are synonymous with the Thatcher era. Featuring 100 works by 60 artists, this exhibition looks at that charged moment and its impact on British art through the 1990s. —Elena Clavarino