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Tracey Emin’s Eiffel Tower

Art News: It’s official title is ‘Tracey Drops Her Knickers In Paris’ but Tracey Emin’s enormous installation, unveiled last night after weeks of secrecy, has already been nicknamed ‘The Eyeful Tower’ by the thousands of onlookers flocking to see what the ‘enfant terrible’ of British art has done to this iconic French landmark.

Tracey Emin's Eiffel Tower
It’s just the way I’ve always seen the structure,” says Emin.

I squint at it and see a girl wearing a miniskirt with her knickers round her knees. But it was only when I was approached by the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, to do something really spectacular that I realised that girl was me.”

While some critics have hailed the work as a triumph, others have attacked it as ‘vulgar’ and ‘un-French’. Tourists visting today seemed to be equally divided.

I think it’s wonderful,” said Francesca Milone, 38, from Sicily, visiting Paris for the first time with her family. “No one will be able to look at the Eiffel Tower in the same way again.”

Well I don’t like it one bit,” commented Richard Hale, 24, from London.

If I want to see a giant woman drop her knickers, I’d rather go to Porn Night at the IMAX.”