Sean Scully: Paul 1984 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
To interpret, through paint, what verbal language cannot. No contemporary painter does this better than Sean Scully.
1 September 2021
Tate Modern
Damien Hirst Launches His First NFT Series – Pornhub Art Museum Nudes – Tate Modern Offers Free COVID Vaccines
Damien Hirst Launches His First NFT Series – Pornhub Classic Art Museum Nudes – Tate Modern Offers Free COVID Vaccines
14 July 2021
Sophie Taeuber-Arp Influential 20th-Century Avant-Garde Master – Tate Modern
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) was one of the most innovative artists and designers of the 20th-century avant-garde.
24 June 2021
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the 1920s and 30s. This is the first retrospective of her work ever held in the UK.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Rodin: Suffering And Conflict – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate …
9 June 2021
Beuys’ Acorns
In response to the climate emergency, artists Ackroyd & Harvey have installed Beuys’ Acorns, a group of 100 oak trees, on Tate Modern’s South Terrace.
Major Auguste Rodin Exhibition At Tate Modern Finalised
Tate Modern will be presenting a major new exhibition of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). It will show how he broke the rules
15 April 2021
The Making of Rodin
Experimental works reveal a new side to the sculptor who changed modern art
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London Galleries and Museums: The Lights Are On But No One’s Home – Steve Daszko
Lockdown II – When the first lockdown started in March last year, Tate, like all Art Galleries, suffered financially.
11 January 2021
Bruce Nauman
This is the first major exhibition of the work of Bruce Nauman in London in more than 20 years.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Museum Futures Post Lockdown – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern is easily the most popular gallery of modern art in the world… For a location that consists mostly of open spaces, lightly sprinkled with the odd moment of art, that is some achievemen
2 June 2020
Tate Modern Turns Twenty Despite London Lockdown
Tate Modern has turned twenty despite the lockdown but not to worry you can still celebrate their 20th anniversary online.
12 May 2020
Anicka Yi To Create Next Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
Tate Modern has announced that Anicka Yi will create the next annual Hyundai Commission, an annual event at the gallery…. Read More
13 March 2020
Andy Warhol Multiple Identities – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has, even since his death more than thirty years ago, retained a central position in the world of contemporary art.
12 March 2020
Andy Warhol
This major retrospective is the first Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years. As well as his iconic pop images of Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola and Campbell’s soup cans, it includes works never seen before in the UK.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Pablo Picasso Painting Vandalised At Tate Modern
Pablo Picasso’s Bust of a Woman (1944) on view at the Tate Modern has been removed from display and is undergoing conservation after a member of the public damaged the work.
1 January 2020
Steve McQueen
Extended – Now Booking
Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition of Steve McQueen’s artwork in the UK for 20 years
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Tate Modern Teen Admits Attempted Murder
An eighteen-year-old autistic man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in a strange case involving a six-year-old French boy who was thrown from the viewing platform at Tate Modern, last August. The boy was a tourist visiting London on a city break with his parents.
7 December 2019
Dora Maar: Shedding The Muse Label – Sue Hubbard
In 1998 the first sales of the Dora Maar collection were put on sale in Paris. They revealed a life dedicated to photography, painting and poetry, executed in the city’s avant-garde milieu of the 1930s.
20 November 2019
Dora Maar
During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism.
Andy Warhol Tate Retrospective Announced For Spring
Andy Warhol Tate Modern retrospective celebrates one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His life and work… Read More
28 October 2019
Nam June Paik Outstripped By Technology Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a Korean-born artist who lived and worked in Japan, Germany and the United States. He played a considerable role in the international avant-garde. His first solo show, Exposition of Music – Electronic Television, was staged in Wuppertal Germany in 1963.
24 October 2019
Kara Walker At Tate Turbine Hall Plus Three Exhibitions At StoreX
Tate Modern has unveiled a monumental 13-metre-high fountain created by the American artist Kara Walker. Walker is best known for her thought-provoking investigations of race, sexuality and violence through the history of slavery,
1 October 2019
Nam June Paik
Tate Modern brings together over 200 works from throughout Nam June Paik’s five-decade career – from robots made from old TV screens to his innovative video works and all-encompassing room-sized installations
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Kara Walker Hyundai Commission
Kara Walker will transform the Turbine Hall with an ambitious new artwork for London.
Timed tickets required: Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Takis: Kinetic Sculptor Exploring The Gap Between Art And Science Dies
Post-script: This piece was initially intended as a review of the exhibition ‘Takis’Tate Modern. Sadly, since the time of writing the artist has passed away, on the morning of the 9th of August. This piece has subsequently been revised as something of a tribute to a singular figure of contemporary art.
10 August 2019
Tate Modern Declared Crime Scene After Child Thrown From Viewing Platform
Tate Modern was shut and declared a crime scene on Sunday after a six-year-old French boy was thrown five floors from the 10th-floor viewing platform. The child crashed onto the fifth-floor roof above the new member’s room and was airlifted to hospital by air ambulance where he is in critical condition.
4 August 2019
Olafur Eliasson: Work That Is Right Here Right Now – Edward Lucie-Smith
Olafur Eliasson is now a very big deal in the world of contemporary art
10 July 2019
Nan Goldin
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Takis
Over a 70-year career, Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis, born 1925) has created some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Takis Tate Modern Kevork Mourad Ismaili Centre – Two Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Greek artist Panayiotis Vassillakis, known simply as Takis, born in Athens in 1925, is a very senior member of today’s international avant-garde. His new show at Tate Modern – what? Not a woman, not a person of colour? – therefore qualifies as an event of some interest.
7 July 2019