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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

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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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 Guardian - UK

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…

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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

Evening Standard

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.

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‘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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Turner Prize-winner Oscar Murillo on taking over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall: 'For an artist it doesn't get better than this'

The Colombian artist on his new display which will turn Tate visitors into artists, the unusual inspiration he took from Monet and why he went undercover as a cleaner in the name of art

The Guardian - UK

Artists should exploit AI’s capabilities, say creators of new Tate Modern show

Exhibition traces long relationship between artists and technology, a symbiosis that is sure to continue

The Independent UK

Two leading ladies of the arts to be made Dames

Artist Tracey Emin and philanthropist and author Hannah Rothschild are set to be awarded damehoods in the King’s Honours List

The Guardian - UK

Tate director Maria Balshaw: ‘I still come into work feeling terrified’

The art gallery boss on the role of museums today, the politics of sponsorship and how Cornelia Parker influenced her decision-making

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Looking at people looking at art: inside the mind of a gallery attendant

Visitor experience workers at London’s Tate Modern, Serpentine, Barbican and V&A share what it’s like to watch people looking at art during a time of changing attention spans and rising vandalism

The Guardian - UK

‘Biggie, Tupac, Ghostface – those guys saved my life’: Alvaro Barrington on hip-hop, carnival and his Tate show

Ahead of his major Tate commission, one of the stars of modern art discusses his diverse cultural influences and why his new work will explore his Caribbean and American roots

Evening Standard

Tate Britain's Now You See Us: 10 firsts of extraordinary women artists in Britain, abandoned by art history

This groundbreaking exhibition re-introduces 110 forgotten female professional artists. Here are 10 of the trailblazing women who paved the way for future generations of artists

Evening Standard

Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 at Tate Britain review: strikingly powerful

This comprehensive show might be wide-ranging, but there are some real gems here

Evening Standard

OPINION - Gucci showing in London is great — I wish British fashion brands Beckham, Westwood and McCartney would too

The South Bank is set for a serious glow-up this evening as the fashion world descends on SE1 for Gucci’s latest show at Tate Modern. Fashion editors are used to being whisked off to glamorous, far-flung locations for May’s round of cruise shows. These have become a spin-off marketing industry…

Evening Standard

Expressionists at Tate Modern: a wonderful exhibition about an extraordinary art movement

This is about The Blue Rider art movement set up by a comsmopolitan group of friends including Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Gabriele Münter

The Guardian - UK

John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger review – exploring the artist’s work in style

Academics, artists and curators delve into the background behind Sargent’s glossy society portraits in this polished documentary

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