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Daniel’s Value and Ideas #80: The Importance of Being Tracey

Being Tracey Emin is a full time occupation, although probably not as labour intensive as being Gilbert & George. She is saddled with the unenviable task of perpetuating the myth of Mad Tracey from Margate, which is the source of all her power, while also drifting gently into middle age and maturing as an artist to ensure her longevity. So one wonders how she has time for lavish birthday parties, building controversial new houses and judging drawing competitions.

Daniel’s Value and Ideas #67: The Doors to the Future

In 1992, before the YBA phenomenon fully exploded, Gary Hume took a drastic decision: he stopped making the paintings of mundane hospital doors that had gained him critical recognition and the patronage of Charles Saatchi. It should have been the end of the line for Hume, and perhaps it should have signalled a warning to his gallerist, but both survived to demonstrate that sometimes in art doing the right thing pays off.

Daniel’s Value and Ideas #58: All Aboard Labour’s New Milliband Wagon

This week Ed Milliband said that a future Labour government would place the arts and the creative industries at the heart of its mission. It sounded a lot like something we wanted to hear, but in reality it was a crass bit of electioneering. It misses the mark by quite some margin, but it does help us to glimpse what we need to do about the state of the arts.

Daniel’s Value and Ideas #57: The Truth or Something Beautiful

Jackson Pollock is currently the subject of a show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, where one of his earliest pour paintings, Alchemy (1947), is the centrepiece. He will also be centre stage this summer when Tate Liverpool opens an exhibition of the relatively neglected Black Pouring paintings. This is one of those moments when an icon of art history reveals previously unseen depths.

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