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Italian art at Tate Modern: Starting from zero

The Tate and the Walker Art Center collaborate to show Arte Povera 1962 to 1972, from five years before the movement was defined by its impresario, Germano Celant

Tate Modern's 'Century City' receives mixed reviews

A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

Artists of the world united

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern

Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy

July 2000archive

Food review: Tate Modern, London

What on the menu at London's newest gallery

Tate indulges sticky fingers and sabotage: works by Smith and Harwood

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Art Chicago 2000: A full house

Despite the opening of Tate Modern, which lured away many buyers, the fair was generally a success

Tate Modern.An astonishing achievement—but.

Last month, 1,800 journalists came to report on London’s new museum; 4,000 guests vied for tickets to the inaugural party, and 105,000 visitors poured in over the first three days

Putting Matisse and Picasso back in the ring at Tate Modern

Matisse wanted his art to be like a comfortable easy chair, while Picasso preferred to think of art as a weapon. But did these statements correspond with reality?

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Curator interview: Tate Modern's thematic hang

An exclusive interview with The Art Newspaper about the closely guarded secret: the thinking behind how the Tate Modern has arranged its art

Funding the Tate: A £134 million achievement

With £6m a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort

The architecture of Tate Modern. Deceptively simple

Architects Herzog & de Meuron play subtle tricks with lighting and glass boxes

Tate modern brasses off in a multimedia display as the London art scene prepares for the gallery's opening next month

Andrew Mummery powers up in a new gallery, Victoria Miro provides a sneak preview of her new space , and a Volkswagen van invades a front room in Camberwell

Tate Britain's new thematic display revealed in 'RePresenting Britain' as international works move to Bankside

The first stage of splitting the Tate Gallery into a museum of British art and a museum of international modern art takes place this month

Iwona Blazwick on her time with Tate and the future of Whitechapel

The number two position at Tate Modern might satisfy most curators but Blazwick has given it up to direct the Whitechapel Art Gallery

Vast Bourgeois for the new Tate as the first of five commissions

Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall

A whole new neighbourhood of art: Tate Modern invigorates the South Bank

Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at this witty and non-judgemental enterprise, one of many visual art developments already around the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art

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No UK country has poured as much money as England into art commissions since 1995

The £50m art bonanza has funded everything from Gormley's Angel of the North to a 48km sculpture trail

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Large Lottery grant to Tate Gallery to buy contemporary art

£6.2 million goes to the new Tate at Bankside before next years opening.

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Tate Gallery: All for one, and one for all

A radical new organisation has been created by director Nicholas Serota We interview the man he has chosen to lead the future Tate Gallery of British Art

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Tate Modern's first director is Lars Nittve

The Swede comes straight from heading Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Janet de Botton gives Tate free reign with her collection

Inspired by the Tate’s plans for Bankside, she gave the museum one third of her massive collection of modern art

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A Tate for the 21st century: decisions to be made about the collection remaining at Millbank Tate

With modern foreign art to be displayed at Bankside, opinion within the Tate differs as to how the story of British art should be told