If you walk past The Ritz and take a right down St James, left on Jermyn Street, and right again, you will find yourself in Bury Street, the nexus of London's art establishment (parallel to Duke and Mason's Yard). Look through the window of Sadie Coles at number 8,...
Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas have been friends for nearly twenty-five years — not the art world’s polite, arm’s-length sort of friends, but the real kind. The kind who drink together, argue, laugh too loudly, and end up immortalising each other in paint and bronze....
Some friendships are written in the stars—or at least, on the same birthday. Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas first collided on 23 October 2000, at Soho's long-gone, Colony Room Club, introduced by the irrepressible Sebastian Horsley—artist, dandy, and occasional muse...
To get into Happy Gas, Sarah Lucas' new solo show at Tate Britain, you have to walk through a gift shop; floating on the sugary peach wallpaper is the repeating photographic image of cigarette orbs (tits) crafted from unsmoked Marlborough lights. Her original Tits in...
Sarah Lucas's solo show has just opened at Tate Britain. Lucas has always been the baddest of the bad YBA girls. Unlike Emin, who was rather partial to attending private views in her Vivienne Westwood best, Sarah Lucas, who grew up on an Islington council estate,...
Tate Britain is mounting a major survey of the work of Sarah Lucas. One of the leading figures of her generation, Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and irreverent work, often exploring the human body, mortality, and very British experiences of sex,...
“We need her work now more than ever,” Lisa Philips, the New Museum director stated, she continued, “We hope jaws will drop with this exhibition.’ Jaws may not be dropping, but New York critics are united in their praise of Lucas, with Jerry Saltz anointing her “one...
Sarah Lucas presents her first major museum exhibition in the United States titled Good Muse at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Legion of Honor exhibits two new works by Ms. Lucas (b. 1962), as well as a selection of recent sculptures in dialogue with the...
Sarah Lucas will unveil POWER IN WOMAN, an exhibition In spring 2016 at the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Three sculptures will be displayed in the North Drawing Room, each depicting a female figure in cast plaster. These...