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house. welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run through your art but when did the art start? it took off at school because i missed so much school. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, ijust did whatever i wanted to do in art, and i think that s what it was, really, it had become me in a serious way and because the teachers took me seriously and trusted me, that was quite a fantastic thing at the age of 15 when no one else did, and i didn t have much else to hold onto at the time and if i had not have done art at school, i think god knows who would have happened to me. no idea. this was margate where you grew up. was there any access to museums, galleries, culture? no, see, i didn t even know art museums really existed. there was something like in my mind, when i wa ....
hello i am john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in bbc broadcasting house. tracey, welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run all the way through your are right but when did the art start? yet they make the art then took off at school because i missed so much skill. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and had to go back and i was 15. i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week, by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things. i just did whatever i wanted to do an art and i think that is what it was really. it really sort of, it became me if that makes sense. in a serious way. and i think, because the teachers took me seriously, and trusted me, that was quite a ....
hello, i m john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal key moments and cultural works that fired their imagination and had a profound impact on their own art. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work. in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in the bbc broadcasting house. welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run through your art but when did the art start? it took off at school because i missed so much school. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, and ijust did whatever i wanted to do in art, and i think that s what it was, really, it had become me in a serious way a ....
side. and, the january 6th hearing that was set for this morning aimed at trump s influence on the department of justice has been postponed. we ll tell you what s next for the investigation into the insurrection. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 15th. i m jonathan lemire. we re learning new details about the next january 6th committee hearing which will now take place tomorrow afternoon. a hearing originally scheduled for today has been postponed. congress woman zoe lofgren said it was stemming from an overwhelming demand on staff to produce the videos they have been showing during the hearings. as for tomorrow s hearing, the focus will be on former president trump s efforts to pressure his vice president mike pence into overturning the 2020 results. vice chair of the committee liz cheney, republican, teased ahead hearing new video she posted to twitter. the select committee will examine president trump s relentless effort on jan ....
It was only later when i did find out about rothko and read about rothko that i thought, oh, my god, how. and then i realised something, very early on, that art, true art should resonate, should make you feel. it is not a picture, it is not a thing, is not an object, it is a true entity, a true thing that has energy, that comes from somewhere, that s what makes it art. if you talk to people on the street and ask them who tracey emin is, they would probably associate you with my bed, or the other work, the tent, which is called everyone i ever slept with, 1963-1995. do you think the painting has been overlooked? no, i think i have been overlooked, i don t think the painting has been overlooked. i think people didn t understand the seriousness of my work over the past 20 years. i think theyjust thought i was some sort of narcissistic, ....