11 February 2020 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern presents the first survey of Steve Mc Queen’s work in the UK for over 20 years, offering a timely moment to reflect on these themes. Featuring 14 major works spanning film, photography and sculpture
31 January 2020 • Mark Westall
Launching next spring, a major new exhibition at Tate Modern – the first at the gallery for almost 20 years – offers visitors a rare personal insight into how Warhol and his work marked a period of cultural transformation.
26 January 2020 • Tabish Khan
Lights, darkness, ghosts, robots and moonlight.
23 November 2019 • Tabish Khan
Fog, cultural destruction, the moon, butterflies and purple rage.
27 October 2019 • Tabish Khan
A library celebrating immigrants, modern slavery, soap reliefs, an archive, giant heads, equal pay for women and lots of lights.
13 October 2019 • Tabish Khan
Beautiful glass, good versus evil, swinging magnets, old school photography, secret rivers, female artists and a brightly coloured bird.
28 August 2019 • Lee Sharrock
Back in 2003 I, along with 2 million other art lovers, was mesmerised by Olafur Eliasson’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall installation ‘The Weather Project’
30 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
Pink columns, powerful words, auditory hallucinations, a feather, naked bodies, sharks and sunsets.
4 June 2019 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern presents the UK’s first ever retrospective of the Russian avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova. This exhibition is a sweeping survey of a pioneering and radical figure, celebrated during her lifetime as a leading modernist artist.
2 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
Creepy children, camouflage onesies, colour, birds, photography, motherhood and protest.
27 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Starlit mountains, floating boats, Mandela, touchable sculpture, a lichen jacket, Americana and weapons.
7 May 2019 • Mark Westall
Tate today announced highlights of its 2020 exhibitions across its four galleries. Spanning over 300 years of groundbreaking art, the programme will take visitors from the Stuart court of the 1660s to Warhol’s Factory in the 1960s.
3 April 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Tate’s Franz West retrospective catches the irreverent humour of the Austrian artist – and how his art often lay in its pretending not to be art.
20 February 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
Here, from the Tate’s show ‘The Colour of Memory’, is everything you want in a Bonnard. ‘Young Women in the Garden’ (1921–3, reworked 1945–6) centres on his model and lover Renée Monchaty (1900-25), who committed suicide..
30 January 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
I was surprised to find recently just how much there is at Tate Modern which might entertain the typical two-year-old year old.
7 October 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 includes:!Crotch grabs, an estate agent, towers, a melting collector, lightning, yoga and floating ships.
2 September 2018 • Tabish Khan
Optical illusions, step into the light, Picasso, immigration, singing stones, tea and life.
12 August 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 7 art exhibitions to see include: A tortured puppet, Windrush, Mandela, Banksy, a niqab, a house on fire and a surrendering skeleton.
5 August 2018 • Tabish Khan
Politics, twins, windows, bodies, Pakistan, a donkey and artificial intelligence.
3 July 2018 • Staff
This week, with Masterpiece, London Art Week and Mayfair Art Week, there was no shortage of events to see (yet I missed two of those three).
24 June 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London includes: Animals, colour, wood, viruses, neon, Frankenstein & crosses.
18 April 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
Picasso isn’t strongly associated with setting up ambiguity in his paintings in the same systematic way as Dali is through his ‘paranoiac critical’ method in which elephants become swans etc. However, a couple of motifs from the tremendous show at the Tate may change your mind..
4 April 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
Until last week, I’d have said ‘moss + art (-Kate) = Andrea Büttner’, as the German artist has often exhibited moss gardens, having an interest in lowly forms and how they connects to shame.
3 April 2018 • Staff
I spent this Bank Holiday in the company of Joan Jonas, Wes Anderson and Ericka Beckman. All three shows revolved around the notion of craft, of devoting time to create props and sets.
