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The stuff we didn’t get to cover elsewhere. Including an appeal from a potentially homeless museum…
The stuff we didn’t get to cover elsewhere. Including an appeal from a potentially homeless museum…
Too often overshadowed by its younger, brasher brother downriver, Tate Britain is finally getting some pecuniary TLC: the gallery is to benefit from a £45 million upgrade.
It was back in May that the shortlist for this year’s Turner Prize was announced, and from tomorrow the four chosen artists’ work will be on show to the public at Tate Britain. There have been cries that 2010′s shortlist lacks the controversy of previous …
The Turner Prize is as synonymous with Tate Britain as it is with soiled beds, formaldehyde sharks and media sneering. From 2011, however, the annual show will alternate between the Millbank gallery and venues outside London, beginning with the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. The Prize …
Horses. Running. Phryne L. Plate 40, 1879, by Eadward Muybridge Seldom is a major gallery retrospective complete these days without a trite expository subtitle; hence posters around town for the Tate’s major exhibition on 19th century photographer Eadward Muybridge bear the legend: “The man who …
A party celebrating 20 years of BP sponsorship at Tate Britain almost came to a sticky end last night, when protesters hurled buckets of black stuff (thought to be treacle) both inside and outside the building. The black-veiled idealists showered the main entrance with goop …