Some photos I took at the Albertina in Vienna in May 2022, from the exhibition "Edvard Munch in Dialogue". These are all recent paintings by Tracey Emin

𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚞𝚜 𝙳𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝙷𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝

Damien Steven Hirst (/hɜːrst/; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝1 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝2 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝3 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝4 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝6 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝7 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝8 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝9

𝙵𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 & 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚣 𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝙽/𝚊, 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚊

I hadn't remembered the artist's name, but I saw this picture and it instantly brought back a vivid memory of seeing the installation on show (I don't remember where, but I assume it was the Rites of Passage show at the Tate in 1995), and the terrifying humour, peril, temptation, shock of it:

Cradle was a monumental variation on the desk toy Newton’s Cradle, but rather than metal balls that knock against each other, it comprised 18 vacuum-sealed glass baubles filled with lethal chlorine gas which would smash if set in motion. Hypostasis consisted of three vicious-looking bowed glass spears with orange liquid bromine tips. The third work was Substance Sublimation Unit – a perilous ladder with rungs made from vials containing heat lamps and iodine crystals, which transformed into a gorgeous violet vapour as they were heated, ascending like an otherworldly stairway. Butt’s dark humour is evident in these visceral sculptures that invite participation but can also kill.

Because seriously, you see these big glass baubles strung from the ceiling, swaying ever so slightly with the movement of air in the room, and even knowing how fragile they are, and that they're full of poisonous gas, they do tempt you to set them in motion, just once...

I'm glad I have more context now, and sad that we lost this artist so young (he died in 1994, age 32), because even without knowing more, it has stuck in my memory for thirty years.

Dominic Johnson, professor at London’s Queen Mary University, is writing a book on Butt, whose work he considers “the most sophisticated response we have in British art to HIV/Aids”. “He produces these environments that are both fearful and seductive, and that just seems so fertile for thinking about sexuality in that moment. At the same time he’s thinking about his own body as a vector of fear, as an HIV-positive body, a brown body, a Muslim-appearing body – all these other ways in which he’s this fearful outsider figure,” he says. “All that makes the work very powerful; it’s also really beautiful.” In uniting seemingly opposing ideas such as science and the supernatural, emotion and intellect, the sacred and profane, high art and gothic horror, Butt’s work feels astonishingly fresh and resonant today. Restlessly curious, he understood that science did not have all the answers and was equally invested in art and alchemy. In a poignant moment of [his brother] Jamal’s home video, Butt laments the disappearance of demons, familiars and magic in the shift from “medieval alchemical witchcraft to modern rationalistic chemistry”. Despite his weak condition, he laughs, saying: “It’s this dangerous spirit that I like and think should be revived.”

Guido Mister in all of its old glory, i need help in drawing arms, guns and perspective x)

Timeless Cool: Jenny Saville, my favorite living painter

We just got back from seeing “Happy Gas” at Tate Britain, the latest exhibit by Sarah Lucas (my favourite “Young British Artist” alongside Tracey Emin). It’s a joyously funny, filthy and thought-provoking meditation on cigarettes, death and sex combining old and recent work. Quick thoughts: I still love Lucas’ giant blown-up pages from tabloids News of the World and The Sun with headlines screaming things like “Sod You Gits.” A striking piece entitled "Inferno" featured a chipped, grubby old toilet illuminated with a glowing red "firelight" bulb inside and a cigar and two walnuts perched on the seat. The gallery walls are papered with gigantic portraits of the strikingly androgynous, shaggy-haired “geezer bird” Lucas herself eating a banana (in the 1990s) and exhaling plumes of cigarette smoke (more recent), demonstrating she’s more charismatic and photogenic than most rock stars. “Happy Gas” is dominated by her series of soft sculpture lewd female figures lolling around and wantonly displaying themselves on chairs (mostly repurposed secondhand office furniture, seemingly). Wearing fetish-y extreme stripper heels, their poses evoke that famous 1963 image of Christine Keeler sitting backwards on a chair. Lucas is a genius at employing flesh-coloured tights and stuffing to evoke rolls of wobbly mottled human flesh (and the ends of the tights are tied into a knot to provide "nipples"). Final shot is Pal and I posing against Lucas’ “tits in space” wallpaper (on sale for £480 a roll in the gift shop!).

yba skin tier list 13/11/22

Fiona Rae, Dusk brings your eyes, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 127cm

يعني ما اقفيت مجبر يعني ما مالت اكتوفك يعني انك صدق لاهي واللي جابك حاجتك

Really an original David Hockney? 🤩 . . #hockney #davidhockney #yba #modernbritish #modernart #valentines #happyvalentines #valentinesday https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqBCLWo6Ne/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I just realized that the colors of a basketball are the same colors as a tiger and wonder if that was a coincidence or a choice when deciding what sport Jake would like.

Judging from K.A.A.'s other stuff (Sharing Sam, Everworld, ghostwritten Sweet Valley High) she really really likes basketball. So unless someone tells me otherwise, I am assuming she likes basketball so much she had one of her characters turn into a basketball-colored kitty.

Tracey Emin

Wolfgang Tillmans, Knotenmutter, 1994 VS Sarah Lucas, Nud cycladic 14, 2010

Sarah Lucas

Sensationalists: The Bad Girls And Boys Of British Art (2022)

Narancia Girga fanart (yes i know the right leg and head looks sh*tty im new at the whole "drawing thing")

ᴘᴘʟ ᴡʜᴏ ꜱᴇᴇ ᴛʜᴇ “ɢʀᴇᴀᴛᴇʀ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʜᴀꜱ ɴᴏ-ᴏɴᴇ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ ʙʟᴏꜱꜱᴏᴍ” #cherryblossoms #damienhirst #foundationcartier #cartier #supreme #sakura #cherryblossom #ybas #spotpainting #spinpainting #hymn #visualcandypainting #thephysicalimpossibilityofdeathinthemindofsomeoneliving #kaleidoscope #mandalas #fortheloveofgod #mickey #swatch #thecurrency #pharmacy #cassiushirst #prada #iphonephotography #popeyemagazine #hypebeast #highsnobiety #thenationalartcentertokyo #unprecedent #sidelinetokyo #jamfromwkym “ᴄʜᴇʀʀʏ ʙʟᴏꜱꜱᴏᴍꜱ” ᴅᴀᴍɪᴇɴ ʜɪʀꜱᴛ (国立新美術館) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeVTD2gBvFU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=