William Blake: Personal Realms Of Fantasy – Edward Lucie-Smith
William Blake is one of the heroes of British art. In some ways, however, his work fits uncomfortably into the current establishment set up.
14 September 2019
Tate Britain
William Blake
With over 300 original works, including his watercolours, paintings and prints, this is the largest show of Blake’s work for almost 20 years.
Monday-Sunday 10am-6pm
Mark Leckey: O’ Magic Power of Bleakness
An ambitious new large-scale exhibition by the Turner Prize-winning artist.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Frank Bowling: In The Presence Of A Significant Painter – Sue Hubbard
It’s rare to walk into an exhibition and be bowled over (forgive the pun). To encounter work that touches the heart as well as the mind in these insouciant times. Frank Bowling’s exhibition at Tate Britain is one such rare show, reminding us of what painting can do.
2 June 2019
Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling’s first major retrospective celebrates an artist who constantly pushes the possibilities of paint.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Diverse Turner Prize 2019 Tate Britain Announces Nominees
The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019 have been announced at Tate Britain today.
1 May 2019
Van Gogh’s Religious Journey Around London – Revd Jonathan Evens
Vincent van Gogh arrived in Britain as a young trainee art dealer who then had a spell as a teacher before leaving Britain to pursue a life of religious service.
6 April 2019
Vincent Van Gogh His Very British Legacy – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Britain has one very good reason to offer us a Vincent Van Gogh show, which is that it is sure to raise attendances at an institution fighting to get them.
28 March 2019
Sorolla: National Gallery And Mike Nelson – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two shows have just opened at major London institutions –Sorolla at the National Gallery and Mike Nelson at Tate Britain. Different as they are, they both give one cause to reflect on the current situation in British art. Indeed, about what is happening to British culture in general.
27 March 2019
Tate Commission: Mike Nelson – The Asset Strippers
A major new installation by Mike Nelson transforms the heart of Tate Britain.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Don McCullin A Major Retrospective – Tate Britain – Jude Cowan Montague
A major retrospective of the war photographer Don McCullin at Tate Britain showcases his images from Vietnam, Northern Ireland and more recently Syria alongside pictures of poverty in the East End and working-class life in northern England.
20 February 2019
Van Gogh and Britain
This major exhibition brings together 45 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British artists
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Don McCullin
Tate Britain presents a comprehensive retrospective of the legendary British photographer Don McCullin
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Edward Burne-Jones Erotic And The Androgynous Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
I have various reasons for being interested in Edward Burne-Jones. Some are purely personal. For example, I happen to live in the area of West London where Burne-Jones spent thirty years of his adult life.
25 October 2018
Turner Prize Smug-Fest Crashes And Bores – Edward Lucie-Smith
Before I go any further, let me note that, on the very day this iteration of the annual Turner Prize exhibition was revealed to the press, a review in the Evening Standard hailed it as “thrilling”.
24 September 2018
Edward Burne-Jones
This exhibition – his first solo show at Tate since 1933 – charts Burne-Jones’s rise from an outsider with little formal art training to one of the most influential British artists of the late 19th century.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Turner Prize 2018
The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain for its 34th edition.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Aftermath – Emerging from the Catastrophe of WWI – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
Aftermath is at last a good solid show at Tate Britain, rather than something anxiously politically correct, and equally anxious to demonstrate just how goody-two-shoes the Tate brand has become.
7 June 2018
Tate Britain Reunites Two Burne-Jones Masterpieces For Retrospective Exhibition
Two celebrated series of Pre-Raphaelite paintings will be brought together in their entirety for Tate Britain’s Burne-Jones retrospective this autumn.
30 May 2018
1968 Political Protest Posters To Be Displayed At Tate Britain
1968 was a turning point for protest history and a flashpoint in modern society.
8 May 2018
Tate Announces 2018 Turner Prize Shortlist Online – But Was It An Accident?
London: Tate Britain has announced the 2018 shortlist for the Turner Prize on their website, this evening 25 April.
26 April 2018
The Human Condition Relationships And Raw Desires – Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century saw God lose his central role within the scheme of human belief and philosophy.
2 March 2018
Turner Prize Winner Martin Boyce Unveils New Commission At Tate Britain
Martin Boyce the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned to create a new installation outside Tate Britain.
26 January 2018
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
An exhibition exploring the impact of World War One on British, German and French art.
Daily 10-6
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways including Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Paula Rego.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Rachel Whiteread Talks To Sue Hubbard About Her New Exhibition At Tate Britain
Trying to get hold of Rachel Whiteread to talk about her new exhibition at Tate Britain, her largest to date is rather like attempting to gain an audience at the White House.
11 September 2017
Impressionists in London: The Ey Exhibition
The story of the artists who fled to Britain to escape war in France. This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots.
Mon-Sun 10-6pm
Impressionist Refugees Monet, Tissot And Pissarro In Britain New Tate Exhibition
Tate Britain brings together over 100 important works by Impressionist masters such as Monet, Tissot, Pissarro, and others for a blockbuster exhibition this Autumn.
18 July 2017
David Hockney Exhibition Becomes Tate Britain’s Biggest Ever Draw
The David Hockney retrospective that just finished running at Tate Britain has drawn 478,082 visitors past the gate. This makes it the most visited exhibition ever held at the gallery on Millbank, either in its time as the Tate Gallery or since it became Tate Britain in 2000.
31 May 2017
Art Now: A Pale Corporate Shadow Of A Former Anarchic Practice – Sue Hubbard
The other night I went to the private view of Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson’s performance that forms part of Tate Britain’s Art Now, an ongoing series of contemporary exhibitions.
28 April 2017
Tate Britain Comes Out – Queer British Art 1861–1967 By Simon Tarrant
Imagine in 1988 the public furore if the Tate had hosted an exhibition of queer British art – marking the 21st anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales.
17 April 2017
Queer Art At Tate – My Take By Edward Lucie-Smith
The hosannas are already ringing out for Tate Britain’s new show Queer British Art, 1861-1967.
5 April 2017