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
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
11 July 2017 • Syndicate
What part did black artists play in America’s civil rights struggle? They reinvented Superman and took a seven-mile artwork through Harlem. As the Tate tackles this tumultuous era with Soul of a Nation, we meet the show’s star attractions
22 May 2017 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
Fight your way through the spindly hordes at this huge, overcrowded Giacometti show and you’ll find a tender, protean artist who is still uniquely strange
26 March 2017 • Tabish Khan
Flying fish, an engulfing mist, Indian craft, VR Bjork, a pink glittery carpet, a skip and water.
15 February 2017 • Syndicate
Tate Modern, London
Cities from the sky, cigarette still lifes and sunset drives … the German’s swirling show has got the lot – even a room to dance in
12 January 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s easy to forget that there’s ‘regular stuff’ at Tate Modern, the more so now that the Switch House expansion means there are three paying special exhibitions plus the Turbine Hall and the performance-based Tanks on at any one time.
11 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Driving force behind Manchester’s cultural renaissance to take over one of most powerful jobs in UK arts
7 August 2016 • Tabish Khan
A dangerous world, a decapitated horse, an arts prize, playful sculpture and an annual institution.
7 July 2016 • Syndicate
Tate Modern, London
This blockbuster retrospective seeks to show there is more to Georgia O’Keeffe than anodyne prints, signature aprons and sexual stereotypes – but her own gorgeous, awkward art compounds the cliches
6 July 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Visitors to Tate Modern last Saturday may have been struck, not just by the newly-opened Switch House expansion, but by the sight of two mounted police officers controlling the crowds on the Turbine Hall Bridge.
18 June 2016 • Lee Sharrock
Yesterday Tate Modern will open the doors to their new extension, a temple to Brutalist architecture with vast concrete galleries and sweeping staircases designed to transport the anticipated hordes of art-lovers on a globe-trotting journey through contemporary art.
6 June 2016 • Tabish Khan
Giacometti, Klein, performance, homosexuality, explosive painting and early photography
16 May 2016 • Staff
Each month Jesc Bunyard chooses a handful of interesting events/films/exhibitions for you to visit.
29 March 2016 • Tabish Khan
Spinning mobiles, damaged instruments, Italian sculpture, Communism and hair cuts in zero gravity.
9 March 2016 • Mark Westall
This November you’ll be able to see some of Sir Elton John’s amazing photo collection
7 March 2016 • Syndicate
Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
17 January 2016 • Tabish Khan
Pop art, Scottish art, motherhood, portraiture and a biohazard sign
15 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Tate director Nicholas Serota calls 18 print editions and impression of all future prints a ‘wonderful Christmas present’ to nation
2 December 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Empty Lot as at 28 November What’s the best time to go to Tate Modern? Yes, when it’s open,… Read More
15 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Many of the works overlooked in the 1960s and 70s will be seen in public for the first time when they go on display in London
2 August 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes bold colours, magical realism, an alien sex club, face painting and Stonehenge
8 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
This major Agnes Martin retrospective contains some gems, but overemphasis on her less original work disguises her worth
11 May 2015 • Staff
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
17 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
Colour comes alive in beautiful paintings
