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Hard parties, cheap rents and horrible flats: how 90s art and fashion redefined British culture

An evocative new Tate Britain show captures an era when the UK’s newly flush creative industries teamed up with a generation of skint dreamers to bring the decade into vivid colour

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on a new director at Tate: an old institution must tackle fresh issues

Editorial: A decline in visitor numbers, staff strikes and budget cuts – Jessica Morgan faces many challenges as she takes on the biggest job in the British arts scene

The Guardian - UK

My advice to new Tate director – show us more art

Brief letters: Empty galleries | Cooking real food | Enigma of Alan Turing | DIY desperation | Futility rooms

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Jessica Morgan named as new director of the Tate

The 57-year-old will succeed Maria Balshaw in the role.

Evening Standard

Tate desperately needs a radical overhaul – but will its new director really be an agent of change?

From over-hyped shows to the woeful Turner prize, this huge institution has been beset by problems – yet new boss Jessica Morgan seems too much like a safe pair of hands to shake things up

The Guardian - UK

Jessica Morgan named new Tate director – with ‘big pay cut’ to take job

Clear frontrunner leaves lucrative role at New York’s Dia Art Foundation to join UK arts organisation at critical juncture

The Guardian - UK

Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern: A triumphant tribute to a neglected visionary

5/5 This retrospective of the Cuban-American artist is a revelation

Evening Standard

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Yvonne Rainer, Trio A review: watching this thrilling performance for free feels like an enormous privilege

With this work, the choreographer changed the course of dance – and on its 60th anniversary, viewed by babies, tourists and passers-by, it’s as beguiling and hypnotic as ever

The Guardian - UK

We’re always trying to save Frida Kahlo from commodification – just ask Salma Hayek

ART: Battles have long raged over how the Mexican artist should be represented in the public sphere. As Tate Modern unveils a new exhibition showcasing (some of) her work and the many products that have made her ‘a global brand’, Adam White looks back at the disturbing making of the…

The Independent UK

Frida: The Making of an Icon review: Where is Kahlo among all this Fridamania?

3/5 With so few of Frida Kahlo’s paintings on show at the blockbuster Tate Modern exhibition, visitors might feel short-changed, writes Anny Shaw

Evening Standard

‘Rude, heavy-drinking and a committed communist’: the Frida Kahlo you can’t buy in the gift shop

The artist’s likeness has become a symbol of resistance and heroism – but the truth is more complicated. As a major exhibition opens in London, has brand Frida obscured the real Kahlo?

The Guardian - UK

Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern: how a radical artist became a global icon

Frida: The Making of an Icon at Tate Modern is the first major interrogation of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s legacy in London for 25 years. It already has more advance sales than any exhibition in Tate history.

The Conversation

The reason why Tate’s blockbuster Frida Kahlo show has so few works by the Mexican artist

ART: The major summer show looks at how Kahlo has become an icon, writes Annabel Nugent, and it’s something that a leading feminist art historian says the painter actually initiated herself

The Independent UK

The Making of an Icon: How did Frida Kahlo’s face - and monobrow - suddenly end up everywhere?

Stylised and simplified, Kahlo’s likeness can now be found on t-shirts, tote bags, eye masks, phone cases, oven mitts and plant pots.

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New Tate Modern exhibition examines ‘extreme commodification’ of Frida Kahlo

Frida: The Making of an Icon will feature more than 200 commercial objects that encompass Kahlo’s art, image, style and persona

The Guardian - UK

Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art

Frida Kahlo took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation and her work takes you deep into her mystery. So why is this show padded out with responses by lesser artists?

The Guardian - UK

Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record

Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux tapestry

The Guardian - UK

Fabulous Frida, classic Constable and a Cornish welcome for Kasuba – the week in art

Tate Modern celebrates everything Kahlo, the British Museum marks John Constable’s 250th birthday, while Claydon prepares for an invasion

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‘Is it true she bombed her school?’ My thrilling week in the footsteps of Frida Kahlo

The bar she drank at, the bed she recuperated in, the canals she daytripped to, the studio she stormed out of, the easel she painted her final masterpiece at … ahead of a major Tate show, our writer finds Kahlo’s spirit alive in Mexico City

Evening Standard

David Hockney hailed for ‘reshaping the course of modern art’ after death at 88

He was one of the most significant British artists of modern times.

The Guardian - UK

Win a Tate membership, Tracey Emin merch and more

Enter our competition to snag lunch for two, an arty blanket and a year of free Tate entry as part of our partnership with Tate for Emin’s A Second Life exhibition

Evening Standard

Tate & Lyle: Why are so many UK firms being taken over?

The board of Tate & Lyle have backed the move by a US competitor to take it into private hands.

Evening Standard

Tate & Lyle agrees £2.7bn US takeover in latest blow to London market

The deal comes after a recent spate of swoops for UK companies by foreign firms.

The Independent UK

Ingredion buys Tate & Lyle in £2.7 billion takeover deal

Illinois-based Ingredion Incorporated will pay up to 615p per share for the London-listed company

Evening Standard

Tate & Lyle agrees £2.7bn takeover by US rival

Illinois-based Ingredion Incorporated will pay up to 615p per share for London-listed Tate & Lyle.

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