Oh well, the mysteries of life, of a second life, of why there’s a load of Neon over the road here in Hackney, East London, well we know what it is, hype for the new Tracey Emin show opening at the Tate here in London this week obviously. Right over the street from the Organ bunker. Here’s another #43SecondFilm       

Now we do have a lot of time from Tracey Emin and her art around here, we’ve covered it and her often enough even though she really doesn’t need our coverage these days (and we do get a lot of stick for covering her, mostly from bitter artists, most artists are bitter)…

ORGAN THING: Tracey Emin, I followed you to the end, opening night at White Cube Bermondsey – it isn’t loud, it isn’t dramatic (although it obviously is), it is almost hushed, intimate, I can’t say beautiful but those lines and the way she moves paint, the sense of the loaded brush and the energy spent…

ORGAN: The twenty art things that stood out in 2024 – Tracey Emin, Lee Bae, Ken Currie, Jeffrey Gibson, those Safehouse shows, Working Girls at Gallery 46, Bianca Raffaella, Ernest Cole, Sadie Hennessey, Peter Kennard, Carol Bove and…

ORGAN THING: Bianca Raffaella, Artist of The Day at Flowers Gallery, an exciting painter, there’s a real need to see more and with upmost respect for what is happening here, not just what Tracey Emin has (joyously) selected for us today…

ORGAN THING: Tracey Emin, A Fortnight of Tears, opening night, big queues, She’s Marmite, bring it on, the shock of those selfies, it really is all about those big paintings though, love it, art excites, want more Marmite…

Now I can’t put that film up there without a brief pointing out of the fact that it is all on the outside of an empty shop and an exterior that is constantly used for art that might be at the more corporate end of things, a space that could be used and never ever is when what we artists are crying out for is the affordable space Tracey Emin was afforded back in the days when landlords and such throwing themselves and their empty spaces at artists. We’ll keep our cynical smiles to ourselves today though, I kind of like the way the neon looked in the early hours of the Hackney morning in the rain. We don’t need to cover Tracey’s Tate show do we?

We won’t ask how long it will be before that billboard gets tagged? Youts? Time? Hot Sex? Who’s your money on?

A landmark exhibition that “traces 40 years of Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain, and healing” opening at the Tate here in London this week.