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Tracey Emin

Chooses Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid for Front Row's Cultural Exchange

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Recent exhibitions at Turner Contemporary (2012) and Hayward Gallery (2011). Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy.

Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid by Johannes Vermeer

To launch Radio 4's Cultural Exchange, Tracey Emin talks to Mark Lawson about her favourite work of art, Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, on show at the in Dublin.

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Art critic Waldemar Janusczak on Vermeer's unconventional career

Art critic Waldemar Janusczak on what makes Vermeer stand out from his Dutch contemporaries.

John Wilson reports on the world's biggest art theft

On 18 March 1990, two thieves entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA and seized art including Vermeer's The Concert - which remains the world's most valuable missing painting. John Wilson visits the Museum to investigate.



Tracey Emin visits her hometown Margate

To mark the opening of the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate, Tracey Emin talks to Mark Lawson about her hometown.

Tracey Emin on the importance of drawing

Tracey Emin talks to Mark Lawson about her role as Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy, and why her art hangs in 10 Downing Street.

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