Posts Tagged ‘Tate Modern’

Art festival: The opening of Tate Modern’s Oil Tanks

Opening Festival: 18 July - 28 Oct 2012

Not content with being the most visited modern art gallery in the world, cultural Mecca Tate Modern is upping the ante this summer by throwing open access to its huge former industrial oil chambers, which sit to the south of… Continue reading

Prize draw: win Damien Hirst’s spots

Prize draw ends 5pm, 20 April 2012; Tate show ends 9 Sep 2012

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OK, so we aren’t giving away one of his ultra-expensive spot paintings but we do have a really fun set of fridge magnets, reproduced exclusively from one of the paintings at the newly-opened Tate show. If you haven’t seen much… Continue reading

Prize draw: win two ‘Love Forever’ tea towels by Yayoi Kusama

Prize draw ends 5pm 29th Mar; exhibition ends 5 June 2012

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Museum shops are often one of our favourite parts of going to see an exhibition. Whether it’s picking up a postcard or book, we love going home with something to remind us of a great show. After seeing the Yayoi… Continue reading

Art: Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern

Until 8 Jan 2012

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Did you think this picture was a photograph when you first looked at it?  For anybody who thinks that contemporary artists can’t paint, head over to the Gerhard Richter show at Tate Modern. Considered one of the most important artists… Continue reading

Art: Taryn Simon and Diane Arbus

Taryn Simon: until 6 Nov, 2011; Diane Arbus: until 31 Mar 2012

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Two thought provoking and fascinating exhibitions have just opened at Tate Modern by arguably two of the leading female photographers of the last century. Both are American and whilst one committed suicide in 1971, the other, Taryn Simon, was born… Continue reading

Art: the best shows roundup

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There are a great crop of exhibitions opening to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair, here are the ones we’re definitely going to see:
1) Ai Weiwei at Tate Modern. One of China’s leading artists takes charge of the 11th… Continue reading

Talk: Ai Weiwei at The Tate

6.30-8pm, 12 Oct

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We are hugely excited about the eleventh Unilever annual commission for the Tate Turbine Hall which has been undertaken by one of China’s leading artists, Ai Weiwei. Curator, publisher, self-taught architect and champion of the right to individual expression, this… Continue reading

Art: Curator’s Talk at Gauguin show plus Free Tickets Giveaway

7.30-9pm, 8 Nov

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The Gauguin show, which opens at Tate Modern at the end of the month, is a definite don’t miss and what better way to see it than to listen to the curator, Christine Riding, talk you through it. It isn’t… Continue reading