Messy bed on display at Tate

LONDON — The world’s most famous messy bed has gone on public display, 15 years after it caused a sensation in the art world.

Tracey Emin’s My Bed has been installed at London’s Tate Modern gallery, complete with disheveled sheets, empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and discarded condoms.

Emin, who created the work after a relationship breakdown, wiped away tears as she posed with the bed Monday.

She said much in her life had changed since then, and “I make my bed every day.”

My Bed sold at auction last year for $3.8 million to a German industrialist. He has lent it to the Tate for at least 10 years.