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That's so cruel. Give the French their due they've only allowed 4 exhibitions of her work, we've suffered almost 30. Even the Germans have endured something like 20 – have they not been punished for WW2 already?

So even if she does hop it she'll still be posting her work back here – no one else wants it.

HA HA! That was my exact response when I heard the news too. Is there anyway we can make sure that she stands by her words?

I am overjoyed to hear I'm not the only one who has a serious dislike of Traci Emin and all her 'art'. I can only follow suit and say I thought the same, though I really do feel slightly sorry for France in a way.

Postal Strikes - Is it an example of valiant upholding of worker's rights or just rather irritating?

Well, as long as they are preventing Ms Emin's toot being posted back to UK then they have my vote!

Moments like these make me proud to be a taxman. The other times I tell everyone I'm a civil servant.

the "it looks like total crap to me" line made me laugh out loud.

changing the subject, you were shown on charlie brooker's 'gameswipe' saying something along the lines of 'i hate videogames, i've never played one and i never want to play one'. i understand your views on film adaptations on videogames, although i still think it's possible to make a good videogame film, for instance i can't imagine guillermo del toro doing a bad job of the halo film, which he considered doing. however, can you honestly defend the position of hating something you've never ever tried?

I think Kermode said that he played a videogame (which was in Gameswipe as well) and that he doesn't want to play one ever again.

Will you accept Audrey Tautou and her collective works if the French accept Tracy Emin?

Unfortunately, over the years various high earners in the arts have threatened to reside elsewhere if taxes go up, none of them seemed to folow through. Those that go to live in a sunnier clime, or in LA, do so for many other reasons than the tax band they occupy.

Emin's statement is typical of her, like all her art it's all about 'me, me, me'.

She can take that horrible little 'statue' she made for Liverpool with her. A bronze sparrow on a pole? Pah. The person who stole it (twice) was the better artist.

What's really disturbing is that Tracy Emin actually qualifies for the super-high earning tax. I've made countless messy beds and other stuff that looks like crap. No-one ever pays me a fortune for it.

Wouldn't it be nice if some politicians left the country because of the big taxes?

That was so mean. I love it. As an American I've never seen any of this woman's work before. A year ago, on some Ö÷²¥´óÐã podcast about arts and ideas I listen to regularly, or something, there was suddenly this woman being interviewed about photographs, or a film (the one you spoke about?) she had put together of a "real-bodied" woman masturbating or something like that, and I remember she sounded as if she expected we should all want to rush out to our local art houses and pour over representations of her partying lifestyle, along with clumps of artifacts testifying to the usual messy existence the inveterate self-mythologizer always has. She seemed to think that her being given a chance to exhibit art was really an invitation to exhibitionism. Further, she went on to suggest, if I remember right, that if you thought this was annoying or bad it was obviously because you were just sexist and afraid of the dark mysteries of an unashamed woman, even though the whole concept of her conceptual art seemed so seventies it hurt. Anyway, I had completely forgotten about her, and didn't know her name, until the moment you mentioned her on your little blog. I looked her up to make sure, but I knew with a sudden shock that it had to be that same annoying self-indulgent woman I'd heard on the podcast, who actually put her soiled bed on view as an art object! Frankly, I have to second what commentator number ten said: how is it possible she could have become rich on that kind of dated work? What's wrong with your country? The last time I encountered this kind of would-be in your face womanistic installation gunk, the woman was at least an African American, so you could sympathize with her history even if the work itself was utterly tiresome.

The 'art' of being an artist isn't in any creative skills you might have but your ability to bullshit and justify what you produce.

I really hope she goes, anywhere in fact; France, Bolivia, Burma... Anywhere but here! Her 'art' really offends and disturbs me; it offends me that she claims an unmade bed is art and the tent piece disturbed me as I couldn't believe that many people would sleep with her....

Does this now mean that she's going to produce a piece of art called 'My tax burden' or 'I'm off to France', and will consist of ripped up tax bills?

Do you think they will take Guy Richie as well?

Ok, what British director would you like to see exiled?

I'd go for the British Michael Bay, Mr. Paul W. S. Anderson.

I'd like to see him placed in a small row boat, with an Alien and a Predator aboard, pushed off into the Scottish sea, in the month of January.

get well soon dr k, thought he was looking a bit peaky.

I meant to say... has Mark been put on display somewhere? It looks like it.

'Keep behind the ropes ladies and gentleman, those of a nervous disposition please stand back, and please be stunned and enthralled by... the amazing ranting quiff!' Cue gasps and ladies fainting.

I think you do the French a disservice - they know rather a lot about art over there, so I don't fancy dear old Emin's chances of being clasped to too many Gallic bosoms with anything like the celebration she seems to imagine would be her due. I think she'd be hit in Albania, though.

I have really tried to like Tracey Emin...I have. Promise. And there was a point when I almost thought I would but...I once did an arts course and I saw all the same crap done by people who thought an 'idea' could be rendered by filling a few bottles with coloured water and putting some labels on it and calling it 'pollution'. They got a pass for the project. I gave up and hit the bottle.

Have people forgotten to use a dictionary. Art comes from the Latin Ars meaning craftsmanship.

Give me Rachel Whiteread anytime. At least 'House' made a bold statement and is still relevant today. And what did they british establishment do...they knocked it down.

Emin may be entertaining when drunk, but so was Oliver Reed. But at least he woke up sober and was the perfect craftsman. Now there's art.

If Tracy crosses the channel, I hope she remembers that old 15th Century French proverb: "comme on fait son lit on se couche"

" Vive la France!" ??

You are not anti-French, you are Kermode, the frog.

I decided that the last thing on my bucket list would be to visit an exhibition of Tracey Emin's work, douse myself in petrol, set myself on fire and have my ashes displayed as a piece of modern art forever symbolising that a world where Emin can be catagorised with Da Vinci, Magritte, Hopper and Dali is a world where it's better to be dead!

I'm not a fan of Emin.

Thinking back about art related to craftsmanship, this all goes back to the comments about hack moviemakers that was posted before. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Michael Bay et all all decamped to France, along with Miss Emin. I suppose she proves the point that you don't need to be loaded to make a bad movie.

The bottom line is all about craft.

Which goes to the idea of adaptions - that no matter how bad or pulpy the novel a good scriptwriter and director can always make a decent movie from it.