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Exhibitions and BBC film will celebrate legacy of Turner on 250th anniversary

JMW Turner has been called ‘one of this country’s greatest artists’.

The Independent UK

Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Tate Modern’s cultural shapeshifting takes the art prize

We sing the praises of Tate Modern for celebrating the artists that are drawn to other worlds

Wallpaper

‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor

The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the Turbine Hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remain

The Guardian - UK

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Hundreds of theatres and museums face closure as crisis in sectors laid bare

Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure

The Independent UK

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

The Guardian - UK

Major show to celebrate UK’s forgotten female trailblazer of abstract art

Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and war

The Guardian - UK

Hamad Butt review – the truncated brilliance of the most dangerous YBA

Butt emerged as one of the subtlest of the famous Goldsmiths generation, but he died too soon for his sly, oblique work to fully develop

The Guardian - UK

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Daniel Craig’s turn as queer writer and an ‘unfilmable’ book brought to life – what you should watch, read and see this week

William S. Burroughs was a gay drug addict. A knot of contradictions, he was also deeply homophobic, sexist, racist and a gun-loving conservative, a passion that would eventually lead to him to be convicted of manslaughter. Needless to say, his life was as wild as his fiction – just watch…

The Conversation

Looking forward to Tate Modern’s 25th anniversary party

From 9-12 May 2025, Tate Modern, one of London’s most adored art museums, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a lively weekend of festivities

Wallpaper

Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at the Tate offers a glimpse into the future past

There’s a sense of excitement around Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, now open at the Tate Modern, for a number of reasons. First, it’s one of the first major exhibitions to place the current hype surrounding generative artificial intelligence within a historical context. Second, it addresses the…

The Conversation

The political eclipses the personal in Jasleen Kaur’s Turner Prize win

Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner Prize – the annual British art-world honour bestowed by the Tate Gallery – for her solo exhibition, Alter Altar, which was shown last year at the Tramway in Glasgow, her home city.

The Conversation

Explore the tumultuous 1980s in Britain through photography – from Thatcherism to Black femininity

'The 80s: Photographing Britain' will open the Tate Britain in London from 21 November 2024 to 05 May 2025

Digital Camera World

Who are the shellsuit boys in image that captures the 1980s? New Tate Britain show solves mystery

Friends who posed for celebrated photographer Ingrid Pollard in 1989 are reunited for new picture 35 years later

The Guardian - UK

The 80s: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain review – a lot of good work but ultimately a bewildering experience

2/5 Despite its title this isn’t really a show about Britain, but about photography – and a weirdly patchy, chaotic one at that

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Frank Auerbach obituary

One of the great postwar figurative painters who was a leading light of the School of London

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Tate Modern to host Aphex Twin listening experience

A free listening event for Aphex Twin's reissued album 'Selected Ambient Works II (Expanded Edition)' on the 25th of October

The Guardian - UK

US group Advent International ‘preparing bid for Tate & Lyle’

Shares in food company jump 13% after reports Advent is in early stages of preparing an offer

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m waiting for that eureka moment’: I join a £40,000 hunt for some Frieze masterpieces

One hour before the crowds get into the art fair in London, buyers race around all the gallery booths trying to snap up great works. Our writer joins a group of women with a very specific wishlist – and no time for toilet stops

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Mire Lee’s Turbine Hall review – as kitsch as tatty Halloween decorations

The Korean artist’s hanging sculpture of a turbine oozing brown liquid aims to frighten and disgust – but this hackneyed effort doesn’t even smell

Evening Standard

Soup protest at Van Gogh's Sunflowers was 'work of art', say artists

Judge told the two Just Stop Oil activists they should prepare for a prison sentence

The Guardian - UK

Artists plead for activists who threw soup on a Van Gogh to be spared jail

More than 100 artists, curators and academics said Just Stop Oil action was in keeping with ethos of the arts

The Conversation

Historic racism still negatively affects the way paintings of black people are perceived – as our study shows

There is little doubt that historic racism has influenced the content and composition of several famous figurative paintings. In March 2024, this could be seen in the debate around the exhibition of the Rex Whistler mural, The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats (1927), at the Tate Britain. Critics asked…

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (August 30 – September 1)

From new openings in Canary Wharf to one of the UK’s finest rappers curating a big night in at Tate Modern, Mike Daw has everything to do this weekend

AAP

History-making Australian art gifted to top galleries

Months after winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Archie Moore's kith and kin has been gifted to the Tate and the Queensland Art Gallery.

The Guardian - US

‘The marginal artist par excellence’: the pain, politics and playfulness of David Medalla

LA’s Hammer Museum spotlights the Filipino artist and London art scene fixture whose recognition is overdue

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