Tracey Emin
Lehmann Maupin | New York, W 22 Street
Anyone interested in a quick synopsis of the strangely conflicted position occupied by Tracey Emin these days need look no further than the artist’s biography on the website of London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Now nearly a quarter century down the line from her late-Thatcherite efflorescence, theYBA turned CBE was named a Royal Academician in 2007 and is today a professor at that august institution. Yet unlike those of her colleagues, her biowhich she presumably provided, or at least approvedopens not with a nod to her artistic achievements but with this revelatory, classically