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Don’t blame Maria Balshaw for Tate’s failings. Its lack of ambition goes much deeper

Tate stresses its departing director has ‘diversified’ the collection, but it has hidden its treasures and let its galleries slide into insulting incoherence – and visitors have voted with their absence

The Guardian - UK

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’

The Guardian - UK

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

Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc in 'Wake Up Dead Man', ghoulish art haunts Switzerland's Kunstmuseum Basel, and Irish singer-songwriter Dove Ellis releases their mesmerising debut album.

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From Suffolk to Margate: Exploring the lands of Turner’s fire and Constable’s rain

INSPIRING TRAVEL: With a new exhibition celebrating the rival artists at the Tate Britain this winter, Michael Hodges explores the parts of England that inspired some of their greatest works

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways

Editorial: Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work

The Guardian - UK

Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?

The Guardian - UK

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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‘I can frustrate you, hypnotise you, bore you’: the Jarman prize winners making archives fly

Onyeka Igwe and Morgan Quaintance have jointly scooped the £10,000 prize for artists working with moving images. They talk about manipulating their audience – and correcting history

The Guardian - UK

Turner & Constable at the Tate: Who is the greater artist?

5/5 This blockbuster at Tate Britain pits the two rivals against each other and sheds new light on their reputations

Evening Standard

Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog

JMW Turner is beaten by John Constable in this mighty show. But who cares when the work is so sublime you can hear the squelching and smell the river?

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Colour, courage and cigarettes: David Hockney’s art of never slowing down

At 88, David Hockney is still reinventing the way we see. His new Mayfair show bursts with colour, wit and restless imagination – proof that age has done nothing to dim the artist’s curiosity or his joy in the world, writes Geordie Greig

The Independent UK

I found the most beautiful walking route in England while searching for Constable’s Suffolk

As a landmark exhibition opens at the Tate Britain, Christopher Dorrell finds the real Hay Wain in the heart of Dedham Vale

The Independent UK

Monsters, menopause and bold women – what to see, read and visit this week

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has long served as a parable – a warning against the hubris of playing God, the dangers of motherless creation, reckless parenthood and unchecked scientific ambition. It’s a story that continues to resonate, revealing how little human ego and error have changed over time.

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Lee Miller retrospective confirms her as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century

Following on from the success of Kate Winslet’s biopic Lee, released last year, Lee Miller has never been more in vogue. Unsurprisingly perhaps, tickets for the new Lee Miller retrospective at Tate Britain sold out during its first weekend.

Digital Camera World

From Vogue model to pioneering photographer, Lee Miller’s fearless photos take over Tate Britain

Tate Britain’s Lee Miller retrospective is an education for all photographers

Evening Standard

Tate Britain to get 'Mediterranean' gardens and outdoor classroom in major redesign

Designers behind the plans said the new layout will offer visitors ‘a sequence of experiences’

The Conversation

The pre-Raphaelite muse who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John…

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The Independent UK

Why Lee Miller’s work is so important in today’s climate

Lee Miller's work continues to be relevant today thanks to its humanity and tenderness, Tate Britain assistant curator Saskia Flower said as the most extensive retrospective of the trailblazing photographer opened at the iconic London gallery this week.

The Guardian - UK

Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition is hardly ‘overdue’

Letters: The American war and art photographer has been well represented in shows over the past two decades, writes Richard Calvocoressi

The Independent UK

Inside the most extensive Lee Miller retrospective yet

The most extensive retrospective of the trailblazing photographer Lee Miller has just opened at one of London’s most iconic galleries.

Evening Standard

Lee Miller at Tate Britain review: These images will be seared onto your retina

4/5 The largest retrospective of the artist’s work staged in the UK charts her journey from Vogue cover girl to war correspondent

The Independent UK

The Independent announced as first fully-digital exclusive media partner of Tate Britain for Lee Miller retrospective

Partnership will see Independent produce original content on Tate Britain’s exhibition of esteemed photographer’s life and work

Evening Standard

Tate Britain to transform entrance with new gardens and classroom

Plans to transform the gallery’s riverside entance have been submitted to Westminster Council

The Independent UK

2-for-1 ticket offer for the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain

Exhibition is the most extensive retrospective of Miller’s photography yet

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