Maria Balshaw the Director of the award-winning Whitworth Gallery and Manchester City Galleries is to be appointed Director of Tate. She will succeed Sir Nicholas Serota, for one of the most powerful jobs in the international museum world.
11 January 2017
Tate Exchange Associates which includes organisations from the arts, health, education and the charitable sectors invites the public to collaborate on an unprecedented scale in a free, ground-breaking new programme at Tate Modern, from 9 January 2017.
9 January 2017
During the last few years, the world of contemporary art has undergone a number of drastic changes, which many leading participants seem extremely reluctant to acknowledge.
23 December 2016
Oscar Wilde’s prized full-length portrait by Robert Harper Pennington which took pride of place in his marital home is to return to the UK, this spring when Tate Britain will host the first exhibition dedicated to queer British art.
13 December 2016
This year, £150,000 has been made available for the Fund. With Tate’s annual government grant for acquisitions effectively frozen since… Read More
30 September 2016
Artlyst is pleased to present our curated guide to the best London exhibitions premiering this autumn. A number of exciting… Read More
27 August 2016
The Brexit vote has not come at a happy moment for the various Tate galleries. The new extension of Tate Modern,… Read More
26 June 2016
Gregor Muir (b.1964) has been appointed Director of Collection, International Art at Tate. He succeeds Frances Morris, now Director, Tate… Read More
9 June 2016
It’s interesting to compare the curatorial approaches to the two densely comprehensive photography group shows on at the the moment:… Read More
26 March 2016
This is the result a number of protest groups had worked towards for a number of years, the multinational Oil… Read More
12 March 2016
A major new exhibition which draws from one of the world’s greatest private collections of photography and presents an unrivalled… Read More
9 March 2016
The highly anticipated Georgia O’Keeffe retrospective opening at Tate Modern this summer is set to include the recently auctioned flower painting, Jimson Weed,… Read More
2 March 2016
Phyllida Barlow will be the fortieth artist to join the ARTIST ROOMS collection the collection at The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS)… Read More
15 January 2016
My favourite exhibition of 2015 had to be the Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy. His love of paint, brushstrokes,… Read More
30 December 2015
The American Pop Artist artist Ed Ruscha has donated to the national collection one impression of all future prints he creates… Read More
14 December 2015
Over 200 artists and arts organisations pledged not to accept sponsorship money from oil companies. The signatories include fourth plinth… Read More
28 September 2015
Thousands of John Piper’s unpublished photographs From Cornwall to the Isle of Mull are made available on Tate’s website today, many… Read More
11 August 2015
The British artist Terry Frost (1915 – 2003) is explored for his centenary in a new exhibition at Tate St… Read More
20 July 2015
Enthusiasts from all over the globe can now view Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s unpublished sketchbooks as the second wave of items for… Read More
29 April 2015
Artlyst had previously noticed an alarming trend with the seeming exodus of London’s leading museum directors. This includes the resignation… Read More
24 April 2015
Artlyst is not normally one for conspiracy theories, but we have noticed an alarming trend with the seeming exodus of… Read More
10 April 2015
All works by the British artist Graham Ovenden were removed from Tate’s website in 2013, after the artist was found… Read More
20 February 2015
Why put on an exhibition? What’s the point? The term curator comes from the Latin ‘curare’, “to look after”, simply meaning to care
5 February 2015
After Tate Gallery management was ordered by an Information Tribunal to give details of its BP sponsorship between 1990-2006, in… Read More
28 January 2015
After Tate’s critically acclaimed exhibition of Matisse’s cut-outs, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum has announced “The Oasis of Matisse,” the first Matisse… Read More
31 December 2014
After Tate gallery management appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries’ financial… Read More
24 December 2014
The Tate Gallery has announced that intimate love letters from Paul Nash to his wife, touching family photographs of Jacob… Read More
16 December 2014
Tate has acquired 100 works as an addition to their collection thanks to The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to… Read More
15 October 2014
Tate gallery management have appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries’ financial… Read More
10 October 2014
Tate has announced that Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs has received 562,622 visitors. This makes the prestigious exhibition the most popular… Read More
16 September 2014
Tate Britain’s major Pre-Raphaelite works including John Everett Millais’s Ophelia 1851-2 and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Beloved 1865-6 will go… Read More
7 August 2014
The Tate has announced their programme of exciting highlights for its 2015 exhibition programme. Look out for retrospectives of two… Read More
1 August 2014
