Tate Britain has quietly abolished room numbers—and the idea is do without them even after the grand reopening in May, following a major refurbishment. One Tate officer told us that numbers are regarded as “unfriendly”. This may seem a minor point,…
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Chris Dercon, the director of Tate Modern since?2011, compares his job with running a public broadcasting company. The day before we met, he had held a brainstorming session with the Tate’s curators about its programme. “You start with set ideas and…
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The Tate is establishing a new South Asian acquisitions committee to collect contemporary and modern art from India and surrounding countries, as well as a committee for works from Russia, Eastern Europe and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent…
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A Mark Rothko painting on display at London’s Tate Modern was defaced today (7 October) by a member of the public.
A museum visitor who witnessed the incident wrote about it on Twitter just minutes after it happened and posted a picture of the…
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Who knew that hundreds of thousands of bees can be found on the roofs of Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London? Twelve hives in total were installed on top of both galleries in 2010. “The honey from the two sites is very different; honey varies…
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The Tate in London is buying a work based on the massacre of Palestinian refugees,sheltering in camps near Beirut in 1982, which has been called the “modern Guernica”.
Sabra and Shatila Massacre, 1982-83, is a vast drawing by the Iraqi…
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Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate, has ended its sponsorship of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall annual commission that since 2000 has resulted in 13 high-profile, large-scale pieces.
Tino Sehgal’s These Associations (until 28 October),…
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Snorkeling off the Italian island of Elba; a mother’s tears as her son departs for university; the trauma behind erasing a tattoo: these are some of the tales told by participants in Tino Sehgal’s commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London….
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The Tanks at Tate Modern, which open to the public on Wednesday 18 July, were launched on Monday night with a party that continued until past midnight, complete with film-premier-style spotlights sweeping the guests as they arrived in London’s power…
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The Tanks at Tate Modern, which open to the public on Wednesday 18 July, were launched on Monday night with a party that continued until past midnight, complete with film-premier-style spotlights sweeping the guests as they arrived in London’s power…
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