Joan Jonas To Be Given Major Tate Modern Survey Next March
Tate Modern will be presenting the largest survey of Joan Jonas’s work in the UK, in March 2018.
14 December 2017
Tate Modern
SUPERFLEX Move Outdoors As Tate Modern Prepares For Arctic Conditions
I guess if you’re Danish snowy weather is no problem when it comes to an interactive installation that requires swings and the great outdoors.
12 December 2017
Modigliani: Inhabiting The Floating World – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Modigliani show that just opened at Tate Modern is a very splendid affair, which doesn’t seem to offer a single weak link.
22 November 2017
Red Star Over Tate Modern – Soviet Art In Context – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Red Star show comes rather late in a series of exhibitions here in Britain, designed to celebrate – or commemorate – the Russian Communist revolution of a century ago. The R.A.. was, as is now becoming usual, a step or two ahead of Tate.
8 November 2017
Red Star Over Russia: A Revolution In Visual Culture 1905-55
A dramatic visual history of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1905 to the death of Stalin – seen through the eyes of artists, designers and photographers.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future
Enter the fantastical world of the Kabakovs in the first major UK museum exhibition dedicated to these pioneers of installation art.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Pablo Picasso Love, Fame,Tragedy Works Reunited At Tate Modern
A unique opportunity to view a group of paintings by Pablo Picasso created in the 1930s will be on offer at Tate Modern
22 September 2017
Chris Dercon Launches His First Volksbuhne Production During Berlin Art Week
Chris Dercon unveils his first production as the new artistic director of the Volksbühne, a theater in Berlin, on 5 September.
4 September 2017
Bruce Nauman – Raw Materials Returns To Turbine Hall For Artist Rooms Show
Bruce Nauman is the latest artist to be given a solo exhibition as part of the Artist Rooms series of annual free exhibitions.
31 July 2017
Hyundai Commission: Superflex
The Turbine Hall transformed by Danish collective Superflex known for their interests in unifying urban spaces and commenting on society with authenticity through art.
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Black Power! Tate’s Latest Right On Exhibition Explores African American Art
A challenging and intelligent new show at Tate Modern asks rather more questions than it actually succeeds in answering.
13 July 2017
Dazzling Modigliani Exhibition To Reunite Banned Nudes At Tate Modern
Some of Modigliani’s best known and most provocative nudes are to be reunited in London nearly 100 years after they were banned in Paris.
27 June 2017
Modigliani
The most comprehensive Modigliani exhibition ever held in the UK, which brings together a dazzling range of his iconic portraits, sculptures and the largest ever group of nudes to be shown in this country
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday
Fahrelnissa Zeid: In Pursuit of the Exotic Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
I confess I had a few reservations about the Fahrelnissa Zeid retrospective now at Tate Modern.
22 June 2017
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00-18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00-22.00
Fahrelnissa Zeid
Indulge in Zeid’s obsession with line and dazzling colour in this exhibition. Rediscover one of the greatest female artists of the 20th century in this first major retrospective.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Giacometti An Artist Of Distance Not Intimacy By Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern’s new Giacometti show, following hot on the heels of a recent show dedicated to the same artist at the National Portrait Gallery, is nevertheless welcome for the comprehensive view it gives of one of the major stars of the Modern Movement.
11 May 2017
Alberto Giacometti Blockbuster Predicted To Overtake Tate’s Matisse Cut-Outs Exhibition
Tate Modern’s Summer blockbuster will present the UK’s first major retrospective of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) for 20 years.
21 April 2017
Tate Modern Sued Over Bankside Viewing Platform Peeping Toms
Half dozen residents of a Richard Rodgers designed luxury flat tower-block located across from the newly opened Tate Modern extension have launched a lawsuit against the gallery.
20 April 2017
Tate Modern And Royal Academy Visitors Rise By Over A Million
The British Museum was again the most popular visitor attraction in the UK in 2016 for the 10th year running.
27 March 2017
BMW Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights
Situated in the Tanks, the first BMW Tate Live Exhibition brings together an intergenerational selection of artists that have been invited to stage their work as a space that extends a form of hospitality or community, to other artists and visitors alike. The artists create images of networks and forms of participation that link natural environment with social media, organic and technological, human and non-human.
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Superflex: Innovative Danish Collective Selected For 2017 Tate Turbine Hall Commission
Superflex the Danish Collective best known for displaying a giant Euro coin on the side of the Hayward Gallery have been chosen to undertake this year’s Hyundai Commission for Tate’s Turbine hall.
17 March 2017
American Black Power Explored In New Tate Summer Exhibition
Black artist in the USA during the Civil Rights movement are to be explored in a new exhibition at Tate Modern. This summer the museum will present Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.
17 March 2017
Wolfgang Tillmans – Analogue To The Digital Revolution New Tate Exhibition
Wolfgang Tillmans the Turner Prize-winning artist is presented in a new solo exhibition at Tate Modern. The exhibition concentrates on his practice spreading across different media since 2003.
14 February 2017
The Religious Impulses Of Robert Rauschenberg By Revd Jonathan Evens
One of the most interesting books of art history published in 2016 was Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism by American academics Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness. This book is of interest because it explores the religious (particularly Christian) influences and impulses running through modern art.
12 February 2017
Picasso Exhibition At Tate Modern To Explore Love, Fame And Tragedy
The first solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work ever to be held at Tate Modern was announced today, 30 January.
30 January 2017
Tate’s Giacometti Retrospective To Reunite Iconic Plaster Sculpture Group
Tate Modern’s major Giacometti retrospective will reunite an iconic group of plaster sculptures for the first time since they were made in 1956.
24 January 2017
Rauschenberg Prodigious Powers Of Innovation And Self-invention By Edward Lucie-Smith
I’m always left in two minds about Robert Rauschenberg. On the one hand, there is his enormous influence on the course of today’s contemporary art. Everywhere you look, you see things that came from him. He is a prophetic artist in all sorts of different ways: installation, junk sculpture, fascination with new technologies, performance art, collaborations
5 December 2016
Sir Elton John Modernist Photography Collection Unveiled At Tate Modern
The first exhibition of Modernist photography from The Sir Elton John Collection ever staged in the UK opens on 10 November 2016 at Tate Modern.
8 November 2016
Philippe Parreno Turbine Hall Commission Unveiled At Tate Modern
Philippe Parreno, a French artist who works across film, video, sound, sculpture, performance and information technology has his Tate Turbine… Read More
3 October 2016
Wifredo Lam A Life Of Exile And Deracination By Edward Lucie-Smith
The experience of exile, deracination, was fundamental to Wifredo Lam’s career as an artist, even more so that it was too… Read More
24 September 2016
Rauschenberg’s Iconic Goat Set For UK Return After 52 Year Hiatus
Assembled from materials including a stuffed angora goat, a rubber tyre, a tennis ball and a shoe heel, Robert Rauschenberg’s iconic… Read More
29 July 2016