Esquire (UK)

Artrageous! Five infamous moments in British Art

Twenty-five years of creative majesty and meltdowns

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1997

Marcus Harvey’s acrylic of Myra Hindley, and Chris Ofili’s elephant dung depiction of the Virgin Mary feature at Charles Saatchi’s “Sensation” exhibition

1999

Two Chinese artists jump on Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” at the Turner Prize exhibition at the Tate Gallery and pillow-fight to the crowd’s confused applause

2001

Martin Creed wins the Turner Prize for “Work N. 227”: simply an empty room at the Tate, with the lights going on and off every five minutes

2008

The Chapmans organise Nazi figurines in swastika formation at the White Cube art gallery for “If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be”

2015

Banksy paints Apple’s Steve Jobs in “The Jungle” camp in Calais, nodding to his Syrian roots. Migrants reportedly soon start charging for views

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