{"id":335100,"date":"2026-03-08T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335100\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:46:13","slug":"tate-director-maria-balshaw-ybas-made-the-90s-lets-back-todays-artists-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335100\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate director Maria Balshaw: YBAs made the 90s. Let\u2019s back today\u2019s artists too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This DIY exhibition, Freeze, coordinated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/damien-hirst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damien Hirst<\/a>, catapulted the talents of a group of twentysomethings into the public eye. They would go on to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/turner-prize\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turner Prize<\/a> nominees and winners. Gary Hume, Angela Bulloch, Anya Gallaccio, Ian Davenport and Sarah Lucas, and with others \u2014 Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing, Steve McQueen, Rachel Whiteread, Chris Ofili \u2014 the Young British Artists, or YBAs, as they were called by their Goldsmiths tutor, Michael Craig-Martin, helped shape the transformation of London through the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This DIY exhibition, Freeze, coordinated by Damien Hirst, catapulted the talents of a group of twentysomethings into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,17386,10642],"class_list":["post-335100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tate-modern","tag-tracey-emin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}