Art Honour For Tracy Emin

BBC News reports that the British Council has chosen Tracey Emin to produce a show of new work for the British Pavilion at next year's 52nd Venice Biennale. The council's Andrea Rose called thirty-three-year-old Emin "a storyteller with an extraordinary ability to scratch away the surfaces to what lies below." Emin will be the second woman to produce a solo show for the UK at the Venice Biennale, following Rachel Whiteread in 1997. Rose said the exhibition would allow Emin's art work to be viewed "in an international context and at a distance from the YBA generation with which she came to prominence." Emin said: "I'm thrilled—it's a great honor and fantastic challenge." Emin's My Bed, a stained, unmade bed, earned a 1999 Turner Art Prize nomination. Irish Art