The Latest Breaking News from Tate Britain

Who is Jesse Darling, this year's Turner Prize winner?

Darling said that he plans to spend the £25,000 prize money on a new tooth, rent and buying friends a drink

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2023

Jesse Darling, the first transgender artist to win the Turner Prize, waves Palestinian flag during speech

Darling, 41, pulled a small Palestinian flag out of his pocket after delivering his acceptance address

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2023

Women in revolt achieved so much. Why are decades of progress now being reversed?

An exhibition of feminist activism charts the struggle towards equality, but hard-won rights are increasingly being taken away around the world

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023

A radical piece of cake: feminist sculptural installation restaged at Tate Britain

Bobby Baker’s An Edible Family in a Mobile Home (1976) will be recreated – this time with a vegan option

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2023

London’s new art power list

Meet the 31 movers, shakers and picture-makers reinvigorating the city’s art scene

Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2023

Sarah Lucas’s joyful bodies express freedom – and are a riposte to Sunak’s binary Britain

The power of the British artist’s bronze, concrete and stuffed nylon bodies is to show our diverse society in all its liberating glory

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

Philip Guston; Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – tragi-comic cartoonery

The delayed Philip Guston retrospective opens at last – and it is mordant, magnificent, unmissable. Over at the other Tate, Sarah Lucas’s repertoire of rude Britannia one-liners wears a little thin

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas at Tate Britain review: this is an intoxicated – and intoxicating – show

This superb survey exhibition reveals an artist at the height of her powers

Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2023

Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair

The artist’s dramatic site-specific work, partly a memorial to artist Khadija Saye, who died in the fire, is like a transition between life and death or grief and acceptance

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2023

‘I want it to hit people in the gut’: Chris Ofili on his epic, three-wall Grenfell fresco

The artist has finally chosen to address the tragedy – with Requiem, a vast work depicting a flaming building, fleeing souls and an ocean of tears. He explains why he placed an artist who died at its centre

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2023