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The challenge of rehangs: galleries wrestle with changing politics of art

A reshuffle of Tate Britain’s collections has led to it being accused of reducing art to social history

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2023

Scandalous ‘bonkbuster’ book by ex-Boris advisor causes a fuss in Westminster

And Theresa May is a fan

Evening Standard · May 25, 2023

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Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep

Tate Britain, LondonOnce the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2023

How Tate Britain overhauled 500 years of art history with its first rehang in a decade

The most comprehensive collection of British art in the world is having a reshuffle. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson tells Eloise Hendy about how the gallery’s ‘interventions’ will expand and diversify the canon

The Independent UK · May 22, 2023

First look at how Tate Liverpool could be transformed after almost £30m makeover

The gallery is set to close in October to undergo a major reimagining of its spaces

Liverpool Echo · May 18, 2023

Kettle’s Yard: how Britain’s avant garde found a cosy home in Cambridge

A new book celebrates Jim Ede, the patron whose museum-home is a chapel to 20th-century British art – in particular that generation who were driven to search for meaning after the first world war

The Guardian - UK · May 16, 2023

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New Tate Modern Director announced as Karin Hindsbo, Director of the National Museum in Oslo

Hindsbo oversaw a major consolidation of five national organisations in Norway, so knows a thing or two about big venues

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2023

‘Beyond excited’: Head of Norway’s National Museum named new Tate Modern director

Karin Hindsbo vows to ‘continue the magnificent work being done’ at the landmark London venue as she prepares to replace Frances Morris in September

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2023

Turner Prize 2023: Who is on shortlist for the biggest accolade in UK art?

This year’s prize is part of the Towner 100 — the gallery’s year-long centenary celebration of the arts in Eastbourne

Evening Standard · Apr 27, 2023

Grenfell: Steve McQueen's film is a silent, unflinching reminder of lives devastated by fire

Oscar-winning artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s new work, Grenfell, is on show at London’s Serpentine Gallery. The 24-minute film – which the artist captured by helicopter in December 2017, six months after the fire – rotates around the Grenfell Tower in silence.

The Conversation · Apr 13, 2023

Steve McQueen: Grenfell; The Rossettis – review

Steve McQueen’s dizzying film of the ruin of Grenfell Tower is a rite of pure observation. Elsewhere, the star of the Tate’s pre-Raphaelite sibling show isn’t a painter…

The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023

The Rossettis at Tate Britain review: a hothouse of sensuousness and big hair

There’s poetry on the walls in this fascinating examination of these mainstays of the Pre-Raphaelite movement

Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2023

Ophelia resurfaces: pre-Raphaelite muse is recognised as a skilled artist

Elizabeth Siddal, immortalised in the painting by John Everett Millais, is finally being judged for her art at a new Tate exhibition

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2023

Radically romantic Rossettis, female impressionists and whisky – the week in art

Preraphaelite sensuality gets complex at the Tate, the great Berthe Morisot wins her due and Northumberland distils Anglo-Saxon history – all in your weekly dispatch

Wallpaper · Mar 30, 2023

London Original Print Fair 2023: 10 prints on our radar, from Brian Eno to Tracey Emin

As London Original Print Fair 2023 kicks off (until 2 April 2023), explore the 10 prints on our wish list this year, from Brian Eno to Tracey Emin; Mona Hatoum to Harland Miller

The Independent UK · Mar 27, 2023

Picasso 50 years on: Greatest artist of the 20th century, or cancel-worthy misogynist?

Half a century since Picasso’s death, does the great artist’s misogyny now endanger his legacy? Alastair Smart explores why this is no straightforward set of anniversary celebrations

Liverpool Echo · Mar 26, 2023

New chapter dawns for major city attraction once 'hanging in the balance'

The Albert Dock was once bombed, abandoned and left behind, but its rebirth as a cultural hotspot is set to move on to a new chapter with the temporary closure of two attractions

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The Conversation · Mar 22, 2023

Van Gogh Museum at 50: how galleries are challenging the 'tortured genius' narrative

At the time that Vincent van Gogh was creating his acclaimed work, The Starry Night, he was hospitalised at Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum. He painted the vivid night sky from his room without the bars of his window, editing out the institution. Yet, in the case of museums, it is…

The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2023

Tate Liverpool to undergo £29.7 million refurbishment

The gallery described its plans as a ‘major reimagining’ of the space.

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Museums should take their art on the road

Letters: The whole country should have access to prestigious collections based in London, says David Kennedy, while Pete James and Peter and Christine Nias remember mobile museums in South Yorkshire and Namibia respectively

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2023

First Sackler, now Bet365. The art world can’t keep taking money from companies that do us harm

Gambling firms shouldn’t be patronising the arts any more than fossil fuel companies, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

Financial Times · Feb 23, 2023

Joshua Reynolds’ ‘Portrait of Omai’ is a national treasure. Why is Britain struggling to keep it?

The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state

The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2023

Fostering curiosity: the Tate brings great art to the people of Merseyside

Works from the museum’s collection begin a 10-week tour of the Liverpool city region

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023

First Tate Britain rehang in 10 years will put female artists at centre

Half the contemporary artists will be women, with works by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Bridget Riley and Tracey Emin

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