Kara Walker Hyundai Commission
Kara Walker will transform the Turbine Hall with an ambitious new artwork for London.
Timed tickets required: Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Kara Walker will transform the Turbine Hall with an ambitious new artwork for London.
Timed tickets required: Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Post-script: This piece was initially intended as a review of the exhibition ‘Takis’Tate Modern. Sadly, since the time of writing the artist has passed away, on the morning of the 9th of August. This piece has subsequently been revised as something of a tribute to a singular figure of contemporary art.
10 August 2019
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
Olafur Eliasson is now a very big deal in the world of contemporary art
10 July 2019
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.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Over a 70-year career, Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis, born 1925) has created some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
The Greek artist Panayiotis Vassillakis, known simply as Takis, born in Athens in 1925, is a very senior member of today’s international avant-garde. His new show at Tate Modern – what? Not a woman, not a person of colour? – therefore qualifies as an event of some interest.
7 July 2019
Born in 1881, Natalia Goncharova was a full generation older than Lee Krasner and came from a very different background from that of Krasner’s Jewish parentage.
18 June 2019
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.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
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.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
After catching only the last few moments of the atmospheric Faust (2017) at the 57th Venice Biennale, I was excited to discover that Anne Imhof was this year’s BMW Tate Live commissioned artist.
27 March 2019
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
A brand new large-scale commission by Anne Imhof has been unveiled at Tate Modern.
21 March 2019
The celebrated German artist Anne Imhof takes over the Tanks.
installation open daily 10am - 5pm, see above for performance times
The African American Artist Kara Walker has been selected to create the next annual Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern.
11 March 2019
Dorothea Tanning is the artist, face hidden to me back then, who drew and painted a short series of paintings that I have loved since a child.
2 March 2019
The Franz West show at Tate Modern, with a smaller spin-off at the London branch of Zwirner, the late artist’s long-time dealer, presents the critic with a series of dilemmas.
27 February 2019
The residents of four flats in the Neo Bankside development next to Tate Modern in the South Bank have lost their invasion of privacy case.
13 February 2019
Bonnard was one of those betwixt and between artists, part of the Modern Movement
21 January 2019
Tate Modern is mounting the UK’s first major Pierre Bonnard exhibition in 20 years, opening to the public on the 23 January.
19 January 2019
Artist Olafur Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing have installed Ice Watch, a group of twenty-four blocks of ice, in front of Tate Modern.
24 hours
Over a seven-decade career, Dorothea Tanning pushed the boundaries of surrealism.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Ironic, irreverent, yet profoundly philosophical, Franz West was a key figure of European art in the late 20th century.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
This is the first major exhibition of Pierre Bonnard’s work in the UK since the much-loved show at Tate 20 years ago.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera has opened, today 1 October the third presentation of the highly ambitious Tate Exchange programme alongside this year’s Hyundai Commission, also created by the artist.
1 October 2018
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.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
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.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
The Magic Realism Art In Weimar Germany 1919-33 show that just opened at Tate Modern is a welcome addition to what you can see at this major London institution
7 August 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
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.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
Christian Marclay is one of the most important artists of his generation. The internationally celebrated 24-hour video installation The Clock will go on display at Tate Modern
11 June 2018
Tate Modern’s new show, Shape of Light, has already received negative reviews from The Independent, The Times, and The Sunday Times.
10 May 2018