A Candid Conversation with Tracey Emin
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
A Candid Conversation with Tracey Emin
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Tracey Emin on Love, Loss and Getting Out of ‘My Bed’
Tracey Emin has long turned autobiography into art, from the notorious 1998 installation My Bed to the confessional work that followed. Now 62, the British artist describes the years since her 2020 bladder cancer diagnosis as a “second life.” A major Tate Modern retrospective revisits four decades of work while reflecting a life reshaped by illness and survival.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Long before women were widely welcomed in foreign bureaus, reporters such as Janet Flanner and Martha Gellhorn carved out their own paths across Europe and Asia. Shut out of battlefields and newsroom hierarchies, they reported from the margins of war and politics, developing a vivid, personal style that reshaped modern journalism. Their influence is revisited in two new books: The Typewriter and the Guillotine and Starry and Restless.
THE ATLANTIC
For more than two decades, Seoul-based creative director Mijae Kim has built her practice around bringing people together. Through her studio Artment.dep and the Korean tea project TEA Collective, she approaches design as “spatial storytelling,” where everything from lighting to menu paper shapes an experience. In conversation with Apartamento, Kim reflects on topics such as motherhood, and why gathering in person still matters in a hyper-digital world.
APARTAMENTO
In the 1970s, sexologist Shere Hite helped transform how people talked about pleasure. Her best-selling The Hite Report gathered thousands of candid testimonies that challenged assumptions about female orgasm and the centrality of intercourse. Once a ubiquitous media figure, Hite later faded from public memory. A new reassessment revisits her influence and asks why a voice that reshaped sexual discourse is now so little remembered.
THE NEW YORKER
Shonda Rhimes joins Mel Robbins for a candid conversation about fear, ambition and the discipline of saying yes. The creator of Grey’s Anatomy reflects on the moment she realized success had not quieted her self-doubt. Their discussion centers on how women are conditioned to hesitate, wait for permission or shrink their ambitions; and how choosing risk, voice and visibility can reshape both career and life.