Young British Artists

Renowned British artist Tracey Emin is recovering in Thailand after her small intestine "nearly exploded" due to complications following an operation, she said in a social media post.

Emin, one of Britain's best-known living artists, said on Dec. 17 on Instagram that she felt she had used "another one of my nine lives."

British artist Jesse Darling won the prestigious Turner Prize on Dec. 5 for his sculptures and installations that invoke societal breakdown.

The 41-year-old, who now lives in Berlin, pipped Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker to the £25,000 ($30,000) award.

"I have no furniture. No toilet. Nothing," said Freddie Powell, 29, a contemporary art dealer, standing in the bare, white-tiled box that has been his by-appointment showroom for the past 16 months. His tiny gallery, Ginny on Frederick, occupies a former sandwich bar in the Farringdon area of London and measures just 7 feet wide.

The George Economou Collection presents a solo show by Jenny Saville, one of the key proponents of the Young British Artists movement, hailed as one of the most interesting, complex, ambitious and instinctive figurative painters in the world today.

British artist Tracey Emin's controversial 'My Bed' sold for $3.8 million (2.8 million euro), almost double its guide price, at an auction in London on Tuesday.