One of the most interesting books of art history published in 2016 was Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism by American academics Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness. This book is of interest because it explores the religious (particularly Christian) influences and impulses running through modern art.
12 February 2017
The first solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work ever to be held at Tate Modern was announced today, 30 January.
30 January 2017
Tate Modern’s major Giacometti retrospective will reunite an iconic group of plaster sculptures for the first time since they were made in 1956.
24 January 2017
I’m always left in two minds about Robert Rauschenberg. On the one hand, there is his enormous influence on the course of today’s contemporary art. Everywhere you look, you see things that came from him. He is a prophetic artist in all sorts of different ways: installation, junk sculpture, fascination with new technologies, performance art, collaborations
5 December 2016
The first exhibition of Modernist photography from The Sir Elton John Collection ever staged in the UK opens on 10 November 2016 at Tate Modern.
8 November 2016
Philippe Parreno, a French artist who works across film, video, sound, sculpture, performance and information technology has his Tate Turbine… Read More
3 October 2016
The experience of exile, deracination, was fundamental to Wifredo Lam’s career as an artist, even more so that it was too… Read More
24 September 2016
Assembled from materials including a stuffed angora goat, a rubber tyre, a tennis ball and a shoe heel, Robert Rauschenberg’s iconic… Read More
29 July 2016
In a show of unprecedented confidence the new Tate Modern has announced that it has welcomed one million visitors to the new… Read More
22 July 2016
Georgia O’Keeffe, now the subject of a large solo show just opened at Tate Modern, is a slightly odd case… Read More
6 July 2016
In 2015, BBC art editor Will Gompertz asked, “What can the Tate do to regain those hundreds of thousands of… Read More
20 June 2016
In this latest opinion piece Edward Lucie-Smith gives us the low down on London’s ‘most significant’ cultural building since the… Read More
16 June 2016
Tate Modern has previewed the new Herzog & de Meuron,extension to the press and impressive is the only word I… Read More
14 June 2016
A new interactive art project entitled ‘Put Your Head into Gallery’ presents four different models of famous galleries’ rooms.
13 June 2016
Appropriately entitled ‘You Can’t Please All’, the show at Tate Modern for this celebrated Indian artist is first international respective of his… Read More
9 June 2016
Mona Hatoum’s work, as collected together in this retrospective, neatly straddles recent preoccupations at the great institution where it currently resides. There’s… Read More
18 May 2016
The first UK survey of the work of Mona Hatoum opens today at Tate Modern in London. Hatoum (born in… Read More
4 May 2016
Tate Modern has unveiled plans for entirely new collection displays, 75% of which will have been acquired since 2000, opening… Read More
14 April 2016
Tate Modern and The Southbank Centre both suffered large falls in visitor numbers in 2015 with 18% and 19% drops respectively. Tate Modern’s… Read More
7 March 2016
Tate has announced two new appointments to its curatorial team. Clara Kim has been appointed The Daskalopoulos Senior Curator, International… Read More
4 December 2015
Walking into the Tate Modern’s latest exhibition dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of the American giant Alexander Calder, one can’t… Read More
10 November 2015
The UK’s largest ever exhibition of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is currently on at London’s Tate Modern. Calder is considered one… Read More
10 November 2015
Tate Modern has unveiled the inaugural Hyundai Commission which replaces the Unilever Commission in the Turbine Hall by Abraham Cruzvillegas…. Read More
12 October 2015
London’s Tate Modern gallery said Tuesday it will open its new extension on 17 June next year, a development which… Read More
23 September 2015
August is a notoriously quiet month in London’s artistic calendar. A time of year witness to the widespread fleeing of… Read More
22 August 2015
The American Artist Robert Rauschenberg is to have a retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern in 2016. This will be the first… Read More
28 July 2015
A major exhibition devoted to the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe has been announced by Tate Modern for summer 2016. This founding figure of… Read More
27 July 2015
Saturday 13 June, Tate Modern has been taken over by protesters from Liberate Tate an organisation committed to ending the… Read More
13 June 2015
Agnes Martin is not an easy artist to warm to at a first glance. In fact, if you blink, much… Read More
2 June 2015
The Tate, in an agreement that was not publicly disclosed, has secured £6 million in government funding. The funds will… Read More
2 June 2015
Tate Modern will present the first retrospective of the seminal American painter Agnes Martin since her death in 2004. Martin… Read More
1 June 2015
This weekend French choreographer Boris Charmatz and a group of 90 professional dancers will take over the Turbine Hall and… Read More
11 May 2015
