Tate Britain
Caribbean-British artists: the long road to recognition
Tate Britain's ambitious show in December comes at a time of widespread interest in the overlooked artists of Caribbean heritage
Tate’s Tahitian Gauguin is suspected fake
Catalogue raisonné rejects unusual part-painting, part-sketch, as expert says the “colonial” nature of the composition is not the artist’s style
Surrealism, Sickert, Cézanne and Cornelia Parker’s exploding shed: what to see at Tate in 2022
British artist Hew Locke has been selected for Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries commission, while Barbara Hepworth gets a survey at Tate St Ives
Paula Rego mixes politics and portraits in major show
Portuguese-British artist’s Tate Britain retrospective—her largest ever in the UK—spans her colourful 60-year career
Visitor figures: how many people are actually returning to London museums post-lockdown?
We asked English institutions to provide figures for the four-week period from 17 May to gauge current demand
Acclaimed Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Zanele Muholi shows end at Tate next week—but both are coming back
After runs punctuated by Covid-related delays, the exhibitions at Tate Modern and Tate Britain will return after their international tours
Alan Bowness, museum director who established the Turner Prize and Tate Liverpool, has died aged 93
Scholar with an international outlook who was director of the Henry Moore Foundation and executor of his mother-in-law, Barbara Hepworth
As 2021 beckons.... I crave new art in the new year more than ever
With talk of vaccines dominating the airwaves, a return to regular contact with the latest works and upcoming artists may be on the horizon
Rex Whistler’s Tate Britain restaurant mural is ‘offensive’, ethics committee says, threatening closure
Tate now faces the dilemma of what to do with a room decorated by a major early 20th-century artist
How Spotify playlists became the new exhibition audio guides
From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Tate show playlist to the MFA Boston’s Basquiat and hip-hop soundtrack, music can have a profound effect on how we view art
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s political—with a small ‘p’—portraits finally go on show at Tate Britain
The British artist's largest exhibition to date will also be shown in Stockholm, Dusseldorf and Luxembourg
Three outdoor shows to see in London this weekend
From Chila Kumari Singh Burman's eye-popping Tate Winter Commission to Lucy McKenzie's tube station takeover
‘Blinged-up but razor-sharp’: Chila Kumari Singh Burman on her Diwali-inspired Tate Britain commission
The key figure in the British Black Arts movement of the 1980s has adorned the London museum’s façade with a colourful work exploring her own background
Divine People: first biography of Ambrose McEvoy reveals how portrait artist became a darling of London and New York society a century ago
The typescript of Eric Chilston's book, based on primary sources and eye-witness accounts, was rediscovered in 2018 after being thought lost for nearly 40 years
Where art fairs still happen: the Shanghai buzz
Plus, Chila Kumari Singh Burman and the art work that inspired that Biden-Harris video
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Turner’s take on the speed and horrors of the modern world to Ann Veronica Janssen’s playful, light-bending sculptures
Has coronavirus helped unmask the real prices of art?
Plus, JMW Turner at the Tate and John Stezaker on Bruegel
An expert’s guide to J.M.W. Turner: four must-read books on the British painter
All you ever wanted to know about Turner, from a “rollicking read” of a biography to a “picture book with a point”—selected by the Romantic period painting specialist David Blayney Brown
Exhibitions need a perfect storm to succeed—but shows opening during Covid-19 are getting a disappointing drizzle
With no group student visits, no art-world private view, and limits on public access, the buzz of new exhibitions has potentially been short-circuited
Bryan Robertson: an engrossing book on a brilliant—but forgotten—maverick curator
This is the first publication about the man who put London's Whitechapel Gallery on the international map, but never gained the recognition he deserved
Women artists to dominate Tate's 2021 solo shows
Exhibitions will focus on Paula Rego, Lubaina Himid, Yayoi Kusama and Sophie Taeuber-Arp as well as a major survey of Philip Guston
Spring into summer: see the major shows almost scuppered by lockdown
From Titian's masterpieces and a major Raphael survey, to the final stop of the Soul of a Nation tour
Turner prize 2020 is cancelled and replaced with £100,000 fund for artists
Ten £10,000 "Turner Bursaries" to be announced late June
As coronavirus shuts down the capital, our survey shows 2019 was the busiest year for London museums this century
Last year also saw record attendances at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the Hayward Gallery's expansive group show about trees to the erotic underbelly of the Victorian era at Tate Britain
Both sides now: Tate Britain to show rare two-faced painting by Aubrey Beardsley
British illustrator’s only known paintings—on front and back of the same canvas—will be displayed for the first time in new exhibition
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From today's finest figurative painters to British Baroque in the post-Brexit age