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Tate staff hold week-long strike over pay amid reports of workers using food banks

Union says ‘insulting’ below-inflation pay rises have left some employees struggling to afford rent and food

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Tate gallery attacker guilty of assaulting Broadmoor staff again

Jonty Bravery threw a six-year-old boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern.

Evening Standard

Personal details of Tate galleries job applicants leaked online

Sensitive information relates to more than 100 individuals and their referees

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Tate staff vote to strike over pay after union members reject ‘inadequate’ offer

Exclusive: Over 150 workers to strike from 26 November to 2 December, raising possibility of disruption to major shows

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Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern: 'A rich look at a post-colonial art explosion'

3/5 This expansive exhibition at Tate Modern brings together over 50 artists who transformed Nigeria’s cultural landscape over the last 65 years

Evening Standard

A city-boy reading of the Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara’s work

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Jones’s Tate Modern review, including the charge that the artworks ‘fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space’

The Guardian - UK

‘Smell is a language’: Máret Ánne Sara on why Tate’s Turbine Hall whiffs of frightened reindeer

As Sámi culture is threatened by the climate emergency and hostility from Nordic nations, the artist has built a structure of resistance: a labyrinthine artwork of animal pelts and bones based on a reindeer’s nasal passages

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Máret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more?

The Sámi artist may use reindeer skulls and bones, but her spiralling wooden fences are so slight they fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space – or the imagination

The Guardian - UK

‘A palette unlike anything in the west’: Ben Okri, Yinka Shonibare and more on how Nigerian art revived Britain’s cultural landscape

To mark a new exhibition at Tate Modern, author Ben Okri and other leading British-Nigerian cultural figures trace the impact of their heritage on their work, and consider its growing influence on the world stage

The Guardian - UK

Nigerian Modernism: Michelin-starred Akoko partners with Tate Modern

The restaurant is partnering with the museum for a new menu inspired by its latest exhibition

Evening Standard

‘This is a west African story’: how modern art tackled Nigeria’s identity crisis

As the landmark Nigerian Modernism exhibition opens at the Tate, curator Osei Bonsu talks about the art in dialogue with ideas of nation-making

The Guardian - UK

Nigerian Modernism review: sacred groves, a shackled king and astonishing hair

This ambitious and sprawling show charts Nigeria’s messy history over the past century through the country’s art. It’s fascinating but frustrating

The Guardian - UK

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A breathtaking Yayoi Kusama retrospective in Switzerland, a deep dive into Nigerian modernism at London's Tate Modern, and the neon-dipped dystopia of 'Tron: Ares' hits big screens. Here are this week's cultural highlights.

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Have the Tate galleries lost their way? There’s no accounting for taste

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Jones’s view that the chain of galleries is losing its identity as more dynamic rivals flourish

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Theatre Picasso review – Pablo tears reality apart in a riotous celebration of his raging genius

From filthy kissing to bullfights, fascists and drag acts, the artist who shattered visual conventions is thrillingly, forcefully alive in this illuminating show

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Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate?

The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art

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The dotty genius of Seurat and a song and dance about Picasso – the week in art

Tate Modern reframes its Picassos in a theatrical light, there’s a hands-on utopia in Gateshead, and the Cerne chalk giant gets a colourful new neighbour

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Tate Modern to host Tracey Emin’s biggest ever exhibition next spring

Exclusive: A Second Life will feature My Bed and never seen before pieces that reflect on artist’s experience of cancer

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Bullfights, ballet and hot jazz: inside Picasso’s scandalous theatre of sex and death

Famed for his cubist portraits, the Spanish genius also created costumes for the Ballet Russes and loved the intensity of bullfights. A new exhibition explores the dramatic side of an uncompromising artist

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Space, stadiums, poses and prizes: the best art and architecture of autumn 2025

The season’s standouts include mighty Picassos, mesmerising mushrooms, the visions of Kerry James Marshall, the combat photography of Lee Miller – and a return trip to space

Evening Standard

Hidden London: Kirkaldy’s Testing Works, the temple of destruction

Worship at this cathedral of power, says John Darlington

The Guardian - UK

Reframing the debate over Tate attendances and exhibitions

Letters: Tate director, Maria Balshaw, responds to reports of a decline in visitor numbers. Catherine Bliss is unimpressed by recent offerings at the galleries

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Tate director blames Brexit and Covid for slump in visitors

Maria Balshaw says upheaval has kept young Europeans away from London sites, contributing to a 27% attendance drop since 2019

Evening Standard

Tate Modern to open until 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays in bid to reclaim lost visitors

Later opening will build on the success of monthly ‘Tate Lates’ events

Evening Standard

Have the Tate to yourself: the best art exhibitions in London for summer 2025

The must-see London art shows this summer - with some minus the crowds

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