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Kara Walker Hyundai Commission

Kara Walker will transform the Turbine Hall with an ambitious new artwork for London.

27 July 2020 - 08 November 2020

Timed tickets required: Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Tate Modern Declared Crime Scene After Child Thrown From Viewing Platform

Tate Modern was shut and declared a crime scene on Sunday after a six-year-old French boy was thrown five floors from the 10th-floor viewing platform. The child crashed onto the fifth-floor roof above the new member’s room and was airlifted to hospital by air ambulance where he is in critical condition.

4 August 2019

Nan Goldin Tate Modern

Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary portraying the life of the artist and her friends through the 1970s and 1980s

Nan Goldin has said that photography saved her life. Since her late teens, she has used the camera to intimately depict her own life and those closest to her. Her photographs are uncensored and uncompromising. For Goldin, this reflects her desire ‘to leave a record of my life that no one can revise’.

Goldin was born into an intellectual Jewish family in middle-class suburbia outside of Washington D.C. When Goldin was eleven, her older sister Barbara killed herself. It was this loss that motivated her to leave home at fourteen. In the progressive free school she attended, she picked up a camera and started to photograph her friendships, some of which were lifelong. In 1978 she moved to New York where she formed a close bond with a circle of friends and lovers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s she photographed this surrogate family – not from an outsider’s perspective, but as part of the group. These images now stand as a time capsule of a community and culture that would soon be lost due to the AIDS crisis.

She began to stage slideshow performances of her pictures, often with the people she portrayed in the audience. Goldin continually re-edited the selections and sequences. Over time, the project grew in scale and its reputation spread widely.

This display includes Goldin’s slide projection as well as framed prints, posters and a maquette made when she was working on the photobook. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was named after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. Goldin described the work as capturing ‘the struggle in relationships between intimacy and autonomy… and what makes coupling so difficult’. It explores the human condition, including celebration and sadness, love and violence, life and death.

08 July 2019 - 27 October 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Takis Tate Modern

Takis

Over a 70-year career, Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis, born 1925) has created some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.

03 July 2019 - 27 October 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Olafur Eliasson: In real life. Tate Modern

Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life

Marking the most comprehensive solo presentation of Eliasson’s work, and his first major survey in the UK, the exhibition offers a timely opportunity to experience the immersive world of this endlessly inquisitive artist.

11 July 2019 - 05 January 2020

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Natalia Goncharova Tate Modern

Natalia Goncharova

Tate Modern will present the first retrospective of Natalia Goncharova ever held in the UK. Most of the works have never been seen in this country before.

06 June 2019 - 08 September 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Tate Modern Tops Visitor Attraction List For First Time

The public has chosen Tate Modern over the British Museum for the first time since records began. The UK’s most popular visitor attractions’ list published yesterday has shown for the first time in a decade Tate Modern is the clear winner.

27 March 2019

Dorothea Tanning Tate Modern

Dorothea Tanning

Over a seven-decade career, Dorothea Tanning pushed the boundaries of surrealism.

27 February 2019 - 09 June 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Franz West Tate Modern

Franz West

Ironic, irreverent, yet profoundly philosophical, Franz West was a key figure of European art in the late 20th century.

20 February 2019 - 02 June 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Hyundai commission Tania Bruguera Tate Modern

Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera

Bruguera’s unique concept for her political approach to art – Arte Util (useful art) – will continue to be developed in this major new project, transforming Tate Modern’s iconic Turbine Hall.

02 October 2018 - 24 February 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Anni Albers Tate Modern

Anni Albers

A long overdue recognition of Anni Albers’s pivotal contribution to modern art and design, this is the first major exhibition of her work in the UK.

11 October 2018 - 27 January 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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London Free Art Summer 2018

Free Art in London This Summer 2018

London is an expensive place to live let’s face it and visiting art exhibitions at £15-£20 per show is a luxury. Here is a selection of what Art to see in London this summer for free.

24 July 2018

Magic Realism Tate Modern

Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33

FREE – Tate Modern will explore German art from between the wars in a year-long, free exhibition, drawing upon the rich holdings of The George Economou Collection.

30 July 2018 - 14 July 2019

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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