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‘Tracey Emin said they’re all about death’: Johnnie Shand Kydd on his dog-walk photographs – and capturing the hard-partying YBAs

He shot the YBAs boozing, canoodling – and shaking up the art scene. Now the photographer has found inspiration in some other unruly characters: his lurchers. We join him for walkies in rural Suffolk

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Nature by the uncool YBA, armoured ceramics and dizzying Aussie abstraction – the week in art

Cecily Brown blooms into life, Ashanti folklore is remade and three Indigenous Australians spill their ancient knowledge – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at the Whitechapel Gallery - 'dangerous, brilliant'

5/5 This late ‘lost YBA’ genius puts you a breath away from death

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Hamad Butt review – the truncated brilliance of the most dangerous YBA

Butt emerged as one of the subtlest of the famous Goldsmiths generation, but he died too soon for his sly, oblique work to fully develop

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The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances

The Guardian - UK

Indestructible review – a YBA makes her comeback in art world satire

A feminist artist and teacher is at the centre of Mary Swan’s overstuffed play exploring abuse, sexism and politics

The Guardian - UK

Shoreditch building where artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas had their legendary shop for sale for £1.5m

The property was converted into a four-bedroom house by its current owner who moved in just after the YBAs

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‘Time is the only valuable thing’: artist Sarah Lucas on slacking, social media and her free bus pass

As Tate Britain opens a retrospective – replete with cigarettes, marrows and fried eggs – the former YBA extols the importance of being idle

The Guardian - UK

Big Women review – Sarah Lucas’s gal gang seek to shock

The former YBA has curated a show of 25 female artists – but the effect is superficial and cliquey

The Guardian - UK

Creation, destruction, sensation: Damien Hirst’s burning desire to destroy art worth £10m

British artist’s new work, The Currency, is a way for the public to participate, he says. But for many, it is the sort of trickery that has given contemporary art a bad name

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