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My Bed is a work by the British artist Tracey Emin. First created in 1998, it was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize.[1] It consisted of her bed with bedroom objects in an abject state, and gained much media attention. Although it did not win the prize, its notoriety has persisted.
The artwork generated considerable media furore, particularly over the fact that the bedsheets were stained with ? secretions and the floor had items from the artist's room (such as condoms, a pair of knickers with menstrual period stains, other detritus, and functional, everyday objects, including a pair of slippers). The bed was presented in the state that Emin claimed it had been when she said she had not got up from it for several days due to suicidal depression brought on by relationship difficulties.
Two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on the bed with bare torsos in order to improve the work, which they thought had not gone far enough. They called their performance Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed. The men also had a pillow fight[1] on the bed for around fifteen minutes, to applause from the crowd, before being removed by security guards. The artists were detained but no further action was taken.[2] Prior to its Tate Gallery showing, the work had appeared elsewhere, including Japan, where there were variant surroundings, including at one stage a hangman's noose hanging over the bed. This was not present when it was displayed at the Tate.[3]
My Bed was bought by Charles Saatchi for £150,000 and displayed as part of the first exhibition when the Saatchi Gallery opened its new premises at County Hall, London (which it has now vacated). Saatchi ostentatiously got his agent, merton, to publicise his acquisition of this pointless art product, even claiming that he had created a room in his house to keep the work
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Went to this exhibit last year, or the year before. Artist has a Condition were he couldn't recognize one face from another, but was about to Paint this:
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Frida Kahlo is not sexy
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Another Detroit Shout out, the Heidelberg projects. It's a shame someone is burning the homes down.
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sand sculptures
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some works of H R Giger (creator of the alien xenomorpth)
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people making random simple art out of albums/book covers.thought it was different.trippy.
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Cool
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original star wars concept art by Ralph McQuarrie
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Celebrity scribbles artwork by Vince Low
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^ n/h
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some comic one screens.
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wingman art
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