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Tracey Emin (b. 1963), To Meet My Past -
four poster bed, mattress, appliquéd linens and curtains.
Executed in 2002.

Bids please for Tracey Emin's bed: No reserve price at multi-million pound Charles Saatchi sale

Art lovers could pick up a bargain when Charles Saatchi sells off part of his multimillion-pound art collection at auction without putting any reserve prices on the work.

Damien Hirst by Jonathan Yeo

Damien Hirst appears as 'dark overlord of contemporary art' in sinister new Jonathan Yeo portrait

A portrait of Damien Hirst by Jonathan Yeo will be go on display later this year at the National Portrait Gallery..

The cover of Lady Gaga's new single 'Applause'

Lady Gaga reveals artwork for new ARTPOP single 'Applause'

Lady Gaga has released the artwork for her forthcoming single ‘Applause’ in which she appears with paint smeared down her face.

The Banksy mural in 2012 on a wall in Wood Green, north London, left, and the same wall after it went missing, right

No Ball Games: Anger as another Banksy removed from north London wall

The company who sold the Banksy mural "Slave Labour" have prompted further outcry after a second well-loved artwork was removed from a north London wall yesterday to be put up for auction commercially.

German artist Katharina Fritsch's artwork Hahn / Cock is unveiled at Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth with Nelson's column in the background

Mayor Boris Johnson is cock-a-hoop as giant blue cockerel roosts on London's Fourth Plinth

Boris Johnson hailed the new sculpture to adorn the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square as a monument to British dominance in the Tour de France but warned art lovers may not be able to Google the work under new proposals from the Prime Minister.

Paint brushes that will sell alongside a signed book that belonged to Francis Bacon and was gifted to Clive Barker, a fellow artist, that is expected to sell for over £20,000.

Francis Bacon paint brushes expected to fetch £25,000 at auction

His paintings sell for millions at auction, but now a set of Francis Bacon's paintbrushes will go under the hammer and are expected to fetch around £25,000.

Video: Boris Johnson unveils Fourth Plinth sculpture

Boris Johnson has unveiled the new installation for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, artist Katharina Fritsch's sculpture of a big blue cockerel.

Bourgeois, Spider 1 1995

Giant spiders head to National Galleries of Scotland for Louise Bourgeois exhibition

The National Galleries of Scotland is set to stage the country’s first major exhibition of acclaimed American artist Louise Bourgeois, known for her huge bronze sculptures of spiders, later this year.

A watercolour painting by an art teacher of a man suspected of stealing her credit card

Art teacher paints portrait of man suspected of robbing her

An art teacher handed police a watercolour painting of a man suspected of stealing her debit card.

Mexican clay artist Alejandro Santiago dies of heart attack aged 49

Alejandro Santiago, a Mexican artist who filled the streets of his home town with clay figures to represent the migrants who left for the United States, has died at the age of 49.

Antonio Busiello, The Cullatore

Italian photographers win top prizes in Royal Photographic Society competition

Antonio Busiello (below) won for his photograph which 'raises valid and contemporary questions about body image'

£172m worth of ashes? Fears that stolen art works could have been 'burned in stove'

Traces of canvas, paint and nails found in oven of suspect in multi-million pound art heist

A woman looks at work by Sebastião Salgado at the Natural History Museum

The natural world, photographed by Sebastião Salgado – sponsored by a corporation that's despoiling the Amazon

Natural History Museum under fire for accepting cash from mining giant

Don't have nightmares! Photographer creates controversial images showing young daughters posing in terrifying horror movie scenes

Joshua Hoffine said he was inspired to create the images after reading scary bedtime stories to his four daughters

Artist Damien Hirst poses in front of his artwork entitled 'I am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds' in the Tate Modern art gallery

Dead serious? Photo of Damien Hirst with severed head riles Richard III academics

A photograph on display in a gallery has been branded an ‘abuse of power’

 

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