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
Tate Modern
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
Tate Modern Receives Unprecedented One Million Visitors In A Month
In a show of unprecedented confidence the new Tate Modern has announced that it has welcomed one million visitors to the new… Read More
22 July 2016
Georgia O’Keeffe On My Mind Edward Lucie-Smith Surveys The Retrospective
Georgia O’Keeffe, now the subject of a large solo show just opened at Tate Modern, is a slightly odd case… Read More
6 July 2016
Will Tate Modern’s £215m Brick Palace Spend Reverse Visitors Slump
In 2015, BBC art editor Will Gompertz asked, “What can the Tate do to regain those hundreds of thousands of… Read More
20 June 2016
Tate Builds A New Dream Palace In the forefront of what?
In this latest opinion piece Edward Lucie-Smith gives us the low down on London’s ‘most significant’ cultural building since the… Read More
16 June 2016
Tate Modern Launches Most Important Cultural Building Since New British Library
Tate Modern has previewed the new Herzog & de Meuron,extension to the press and impressive is the only word I… Read More
14 June 2016
Artist Places Real Heads In Iconic Art Galleries To Create Artwork
A new interactive art project entitled ‘Put Your Head into Gallery’ presents four different models of famous galleries’ rooms.
13 June 2016
Bhupen Khakhar Naive Painter Or Brutally Effective Ironist
Appropriately entitled ‘You Can’t Please All’, the show at Tate Modern for this celebrated Indian artist is first international respective of his… Read More
9 June 2016
Mona Hatoum: Hair, Electricity And Barbed Wire Tate Modern
Mona Hatoum’s work, as collected together in this retrospective, neatly straddles recent preoccupations at the great institution where it currently resides. There’s… Read More
18 May 2016
Mona Hatoum Expansive Career Exhibited At Tate Modern
The first UK survey of the work of Mona Hatoum opens today at Tate Modern in London. Hatoum (born in… Read More
4 May 2016
Tate Modern Paves The Way For A New Era Of Contemporary Art Programmes
Tate Modern has unveiled plans for entirely new collection displays, 75% of which will have been acquired since 2000, opening… Read More
14 April 2016
Tate Modern Losing Visitors As Figures Drop To Ten Year Low
Tate Modern and The Southbank Centre both suffered large falls in visitor numbers in 2015 with 18% and 19% drops respectively. Tate Modern’s… Read More
7 March 2016
Clara M. Kim And Nancy Ireson Appointed As New Curators At Tate Modern
Tate has announced two new appointments to its curatorial team. Clara Kim has been appointed The Daskalopoulos Senior Curator, International… Read More
4 December 2015
Alexander Calder: A Circus Of Form And Movement At Tate Modern
Walking into the Tate Modern’s latest exhibition dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of the American giant Alexander Calder, one can’t… Read More
10 November 2015
Alexander Calder: Kinetic Sculpture Pioneer Stirs Tate Modern Curators Podcast
The UK’s largest ever exhibition of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is currently on at London’s Tate Modern. Calder is considered one… Read More
10 November 2015
Abraham Cruzvillegas Unveils His Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Tate Modern has unveiled the inaugural Hyundai Commission which replaces the Unilever Commission in the Turbine Hall by Abraham Cruzvillegas…. Read More
12 October 2015
Tate Modern Extension To Open In 2016
London’s Tate Modern gallery said Tuesday it will open its new extension on 17 June next year, a development which… Read More
23 September 2015
London Art Calendar’s Fiery Re-ignition: What’s In Store For September 2015
August is a notoriously quiet month in London’s artistic calendar. A time of year witness to the widespread fleeing of… Read More
22 August 2015
Robert Rauschenberg Retrospective Exhibitions Announced For Tate Modern And MoMa
The American Artist Robert Rauschenberg is to have a retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern in 2016. This will be the first… Read More
28 July 2015
Georgia O’Keeffe Retrospective Announced For Tate Modern In Summer 2016
A major exhibition devoted to the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe has been announced by Tate Modern for summer 2016. This founding figure of… Read More
27 July 2015
Liberate Tate Protest Hots Up As Gallery Closes For The Day
Saturday 13 June, Tate Modern has been taken over by protesters from Liberate Tate an organisation committed to ending the… Read More
13 June 2015
Agnes Martin: Blink And You May Miss The Entire Point Of Her Practice
Agnes Martin is not an easy artist to warm to at a first glance. In fact, if you blink, much… Read More
2 June 2015
Tate Modern £6 Million Funding Agreement Not Publicly Disclosed
The Tate, in an agreement that was not publicly disclosed, has secured £6 million in government funding. The funds will… Read More
2 June 2015
Agnes Martin Exhibition Of Evocative Canvases To Open At Tate Modern
Tate Modern will present the first retrospective of the seminal American painter Agnes Martin since her death in 2004. Martin… Read More
1 June 2015
Boris Charmatz To Take Over Tate Modern With Dance
This weekend French choreographer Boris Charmatz and a group of 90 professional dancers will take over the Turbine Hall and… Read More
11 May 2015
Abraham Cruzvillegas Wants To Fill Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall With Dirt
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas wants to fill Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with dirt, or soil to be more precise. The… Read More
30 April 2015
Sonia Delaunay Steps Out Of The Shadow Of Her Husband Robert
The Tate has an active exhibitions programme designed to rediscover and explore key figures in the story of Modern Art… Read More
15 April 2015
Unstuck in Time: Conflict Explored In Tate Modern Photography Exhibition
He sits there lifesize or perhaps larger-than-life, still frozen almost 50 years later, with the vacant stare of a witness… Read More
24 February 2015
Marlene Dumas Explores Issues of Love, Life, Death, Sex And Shame
On entering the Marlene Dumas exhibition at Tate Modern and being faced with the Rejects series (1995-2014) of ink and… Read More
14 February 2015
Mira Schendel: Monotypes – Fluttering Between Fragility And Permanence
Hauser & Wirth London presents an exhibition of Mira Schendel’s Monotypes, curated by Taisa Palhares and organised with Olivier Renaud-Clément,… Read More
2 February 2015
Abraham Cruzvillegas Chosen For first Hyundai Tate Modern Turbine Hall Commission
Abraham Cruzvillegas will undertake the inaugural Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. This will be the first… Read More
22 January 2015