My Bed 1998
Lent by The Duerckheim Collection 2015
© Tracey Emin
In the late 1980s British art entered what was quickly recognised as a new and excitingly distinctive phase, the era of what became known as the YBAs – the Young British Artists. Join journalist and broadcaster Grace Dent as she takes a look at how a shop, a house and a fete were at the centre of this art scene.
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Follow in Grace Dent's footsteps and discover the sites yourself.
Biography
Grace Dent
Grace Dent is a columnist, author, and broadcaster. She has two weekly columns in the Independent and a weekly column Grace & Flavour in the London Evening Standard.
Grace has fronted documentaries for Sky Atlantic, Channel 4 and W. She has also written eleven novels for teenagers, as well as non-fiction titles How To Leave Twitter (My Time as Queen of the Universe and Why This Must Stop).
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Walks of Art London
London is one of the world’s great cities for visual arts. Walks of Art takes you on ten walking tours of public modern art in the heart of the city. It is an illustrated map which comes in a cardboard pouch making it easy to carry around.