The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see right now
27 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Starlit mountains, floating boats, Mandela, touchable sculpture, a lichen jacket, Americana and weapons.
Tag: Tate Modern
Tate Modern –
See some of the world’s most exciting modern and contemporary art at Tate Modern. Enjoy innovative works that have shaped art as we know it. Our gallery is free to visit. On display are paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations from artists around the world including Pablo Picasso, Yayoi Kusama and Henri Matisse. Explore the iconic Turbine Hall alongside our underground Tanks, a striking space dedicated to live performances and video.
Members enjoy unlimited free entry to exhibitions with no need to book
Tate announces 2020 exhibition highlights
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.
Art of the Franz Jest
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.
Bonnard: The Colour of Memory and The Memory of Colour
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..
The Tate for Two Year Olds
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.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
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.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
2 September 2018 • Tabish Khan
Optical illusions, step into the light, Picasso, immigration, singing stones, tea and life.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
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.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
5 August 2018 • Tabish Khan
Politics, twins, windows, bodies, Pakistan, a donkey and artificial intelligence.
My week in the art world – Astro-poems and other stories
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).
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
24 June 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London includes: Animals, colour, wood, viruses, neon, Frankenstein & crosses.
Picasso’s Visual Puns
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..
Moss see shows at White Cube and Tate Modern
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.
My week in the art world – Video art and crafts
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.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 11/03/18
11 March 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 includes: Swings, nudes, a giant bat, fake Warhols, an android, feminist photography and mirrors.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 29/01/18
28 January 2018 • Tabish Khan
This weeks Top 7 art exhibitions to visit contain: Burnt wood, young models, sexual violence, lips, detailed drawings and migration.
Modigliani at Tate Modern
22 November 2017 • Lee Sharrock
Billed as the ‘largest group of Modigliani’s nudes ever shown in the UK’, Tate Modern’s new retrospective of the celebrated Italian artist has ‘Blockbuster’ written all over it.
Marden, Lalic, Terre Verte
18 October 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Gagosian Mayfair has a rigorous suite of paintings by Brice Marden, highly regarded in the US for 50 years but hardly seen in the UK this century.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
15 October 2017 • Tabish Khan
Black power, the night, an inter-faith charity shop, Victorian excess, resilience, auras and thread.
The Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
1 October 2017 • Tabish Khan
Abstract colour, a decaying painting, food porn, sculpture, technology meets history, cinematic photography, watercolours and crab coffins.
Open Ear: Proms at… The Tanks At Tate Modern
7 September 2017 • Staff
The Late Proms have a special atmosphere, more open-minded than the main concerts, with expectations of mixing and mashing up music from all over the map.
Tate Modern to play host to a working ceramics factory
20 August 2017 • Syndicate
Visitors can volunteer in factory, featuring eight tonnes of clay, a 30-metre production line and more than 2,000 fired objects
The Other Giacomettis
15 August 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tate Modern’s Giacometti retrospective (to Sept 10) is the best chance to see the sculptor as more than an existentialist.
Review: Soul of a Nation – the sorrowful, shattering art of black power
13 July 2017 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
Searing artistic responses to the agony of America’s racial struggle sit alongside powerful abstracts by forgotten artists. This compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in a brutal, brilliant new light