Tate Liverpool ‘flings open windows’ to first phase of £30m revamp Gallery, whose success its director says others have learned from, is now expected to reopen in spring 2027 The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2025
How the capital's art world went broke on woke Lectures on social issues instead of just amazing art: no wonder London’s major galleries are in crisis, says JJ Charlesworth Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2025
State 'Bias Response Hotlines' Encourage People To Snitch on Their Neighbors for 'Hate Speech' By the end of 2025, as many as 100 million Americans could live in a state where they can be reported for protected expression. Reason · Jan 24, 2025
‘A standout figure’: UK to mark JMW Turner’s 250th birthday with year of events Museums and galleries announce festival of events and exhibitions to celebrate influential British artist The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2025
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 · Jan 21, 2025
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 · Jan 13, 2025
‘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 · Jan 11, 2025
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 · Dec 26, 2024
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 · Dec 26, 2024
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 · Dec 24, 2024
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 · Dec 17, 2024
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 · Dec 13, 2024
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 · Dec 10, 2024
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 · Dec 10, 2024
The Conversation · Dec 5, 2024 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.
Digital Camera World · Nov 24, 2024 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
The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2024 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
Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2024 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
The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2024 Frank Auerbach obituary One of the great postwar figurative painters who was a leading light of the School of London
Wallpaper · Oct 16, 2024 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 · Oct 16, 2024 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 · Oct 12, 2024 ‘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
The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2024 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 · Sep 26, 2024 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 · Sep 26, 2024 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