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Exhibition - British Subjects - Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967-2009

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date:Tuesday, November 10, 2009 time:12:00 PM to 5:00 PM venue:Neuberger Museum Of Art address:735 Anderson Hill Road  Purchase, NY 10577  View map from:Neuberger Museum Of Art

When Tracey Emin, who represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale, was asked by a Timeout interviewer whether she feels British, she replied, "I am British. My passport's British, I was born in London. My dad's Turkish-Cypriot, my mum's from the East End....I'm definitively multicultural British."

Elsewhere, on her web site, Emin describes her idiosyncratically polymorphous work as "autobiographical art." Taken together, Emin's remarks point to changes, over the past 40 years, both in what it means to be British and in conceptions of selfhood and self-portraiture.

These changes are addressed in British Subjects, which will present a selection of works by artists who, like Emin, draw on and depart from the conventions of self-portraiture, delineate new possibilities of self-fashioning and self-representation, and visualize new notions of Britishness, identity, and subjectivity.

Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday 12 to 5 pm

Admission:
Adults $5
Students $3
Seniors [62+] $3

Free for members, children under 12, Purchase College students, faculty & staff
Free First Saturday of every month for all vistors

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