Tracey Emin - From One Extreme to the Other + Gilbert & George
Over at the Guardian psychologist Geoffrey Beattie interviews Tracey Emin and opens up a whole can of worms as she whinges and whines through his game-playing questions. Same old, same old - maybe it’s two big egos in the same room - I don’t know. But I know this - after Friday’s bit of fluff on the Kumars at No 42 I was ready to hear something worth listening to - I was disappointed. Nothing to touch her excellent book Strangeland.
Read the article if you must here
Altogether different is the Gilbert and George piece by Sean O’Hagen “They were the terrible-twin outsiders in the Sixties, but now Gilbert & George are a national treasure.” A joy to read…
So read it here
March 16th, 2006 at 9:47 am
I have been watching recently the ArtShock programme and watched one last night with Tracey Emin trying to find the reason why womens art sells less than men’s art and why female artists are not recognised so much.
I had to switch it off half way through because she was doing my head in with her feminist viewpoint.
March 16th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I’ve been watching them too - quite enjoyed the first two but last night’s with Tracey Emin wasn’t great. The suggestion that some artists get less money for their work because they are women is flimsy to say the least. I go by the old adage that something is worth what someone will pay for it.
What I did like about last night’s ArtShock was evidence that women artists - Hepworth and Kahlo especially - were eventually gaining their rightful place, albeit long after the art was made.
March 17th, 2006 at 12:17 am
Nice to see someone talking some sense at last