Brilliant piece in today's Times by Magnus Linklater on 45 years old Tracey Emin's art of arrested development. See here because the link bit of  the blog doesn't work: MANAGEMENT! I can see the Scottish art gang seething at this one:

 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/magnus_linklater/article4466589.ece

She seems symptomatic of a culture in which the inside is being cosntantly turned outwards- literally since so much advertising seems concerned with bodily functions. That is mixed in with a solipsistic victim cult. Apropos which, do you know the one about Hitler? As the Russians blasted their way through central Berlin, he greeted the news that his brother-in-law was a traitor with 'Am I to be spared nothing?' I've met a few Tracey Emins over the years, usually the artist girl friends of a painter I know. Grim I can report. That this individual is lauded and used to represent MODERN BRITAIN is incredible, especially since Brown, G's personal tastes run to Patrick George, two of which also hang on our walls. Nice, green Suffolk landscapes actually since for 60 years he's just painted the area around his house, not his genitalia.