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Tate to stage major exhibitions by Matisse, Turner and Mondrian
Friday 19 April 2013
Major exhibitions by Matisse, Turner and Mondrian will be among the highlights of next year's shows at the Tate galleries.
Saloua Raouda Choucair: Age cannot wither the Tate's new sensation
Tuesday 16 April 2013
At 97, the artist Saloua Raouda Choucair has a major show at last
Tate's Alex Beard gets top job at Royal Opera House
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Deputy director of the Tate Alex Beard has been appointed to the top role at the Royal Opera House.
British visitor attractions swerved 'Olympic drag' but cold weather has taken its toll
Tuesday 12 March 2013
UK’s leading attractions managed to shrug off the feared “Olympic drag” on visitor numbers last year, but for those with outdoor spaces it was the freezing weather conditions that took their toll.
So Tate Modern's had 5.3m visitors, but do gallery visitor numbers really add up to all that much?
Saturday 12 January 2013
Plus: My nomination for best non-snub and the people of Les Misérables are revolting
Tate apologises for Kraftwerk ticket debacle
Friday 14 December 2012
Tate bosses have apologised "unreservedly" for a ticketing disaster this week which left many fans of German electronic group Kraftwerk unable to see the band after the gallery's website could not cope with demand.
Man jailed for defacing £9m Rothko painting
Thursday 13 December 2012
A self-proclaimed artist has been jailed for two years for defacing a painting by Mark Rothko worth up to £9m in the name of his yellowist movement.
Riots spark £5m Tate arts project for the young
Thursday 13 December 2012
Tate is to spearhead a £5m national arts programme developed in response to last year’s riots, to help young people develop their lives “in a more meaningful way”.
Kraftwerk fans crash Tate Modern website
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Fans flocked in droves to Tate's website this morning to purchase tickets for the hotly anticipated Kraftwerk gigs at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.
Wales demonstrate that, like Halfpenny, they are not as damaged as had been feared
Monday 03 December 2012
Wales 12 Australia 14
Model by Antony Gormley, White Cube Bermondsey, London
Tuesday 27 November 2012
A strew of very spare and rather robotic looking body forms, constructed from iron blocks, make their presences felt, tentatively, up the main corridor of White Cube, Bermondsey, and in a gallery off to the right.
Cultural Life: Sebastian Faulks, Novelist
Saturday 03 November 2012
Books
In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland, is an account of the growth of the Arab empire in and around the 7th century AD. The most fascinating aspect was how monotheism became an imperial tool – indispensable to Roman, Persian, Arab and Jew. If the Arabs had had to wait much longer for a voice-hearing prophet all their own, would they eventually have thrown in their lot with their fellow-Semites or with the fashionable new Christians? What a different world it would be.
In The Studio: Olafur Eliasson, sculptor
Saturday 03 November 2012
'I use my obsession with weather in everything that I do'
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