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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

The Guardian - UK

The YBAs renewed Britain in the 1990s. Let’s value the artists who can do the same today

Nearly 40 years ago, a group of second-year Goldsmiths fine-art students looked at the artistic landscape and saw no place for their renegade sensibilities. So they took fate into their own hands and made a show in an abandoned Port Authority building in Docklands.

Evening Standard

Doris Lockhart Saatchi obituary

Collector who transformed the UK art market in the 1970s and 80s, establishing the Saatchi Gallery with her then husband, Charles

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‘People weep in its presence’: how the UK Aids Memorial Quilt became one of our great works of art

It began as a simple act of remembrance, dedicated to those who lost their lives to Aids. Now this ever-growing patchwork of grave-plot-sized panels has taken on new meaning as one of the most significant artworks of the past 40 years

The Guardian - UK

This art could kill you: the shocking genius of a 'forgotten' YBA

A new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is about to put Hamad Butt back into the art history books as a daring, challenging artist who was just as important as Damien Hirst and co

Evening Standard

Artist Lubaina Himid: ‘The YBAs were wired into selling art. We had no idea that was how to do it’

The pioneering Turner prize winner on being ignored for years, representing the UK at next year’s Venice Biennale, and the joys of Preston

The Guardian - UK

How the Young British Artists drove gentrification in Hoxton and Shoreditch

Who could have thought that artists looking for cheap studios in the early 1990s would have helped pump London property prices to insane levels, asks Peter Carty

Evening Standard

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‘She keeps us enthralled, like Bowie did’: the magic of Kate Moss, by her photographers

What’s it like to photograph the supermodel? As she hits 50, five photographers relive their shoots – from capturing her in a transparent dress to putting her in bed with Lucian Freud

The Guardian - UK

‘Inhaling fridge coolant? It’s just like poppers’: the wild, obsessive art of Mark Leckey

The former football casual who had been up in court three times found an escape in art and the YBAs. He talks about his new work – about seaside towns and funfairs – and a group show imagining the near future

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought we’d stormed the citadel, but we hadn’t’: Claudette Johnson on blazing a trail for Black artists – and the joy of reigniting her career

As a retrospective of her work opens, the British artist talks about the 1980s BLK Art Group, being eclipsed by the YBAs and how her paintings have a new sense of empowerment

The Guardian - UK

‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

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