At the Yale Center for British Art, Tracey Emin’s Brutally Intimate Works Demand a Reckoning
Dian Parker | Observer | 7th June 2025
Tracy Emin, the British artist, sure has an ability to divide opinion. A US show displays her large paintings that address personal experiences – abortion, her romantic life, femininity. It’s an “emotional broil … in your face confrontational”. One critic is left unmoved by the “sketchy compositions of splattered reds and female undercarriage. Emin has long seemed incapable, or at least unwilling, to make art about anything but herself. Her art production has long outpaced her institutional acceptance.”