A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

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

Relaunch in October 2001 intended to bring back the public

Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?

We speak to galleries and artists that have responded to this Tate factor

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall

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

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

On view at St Mary-le-Bow, City of London, until 19 December

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

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

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

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

Who will design the new Tate Gallery?

Tate makes early bid for National Lottery largesse to expand southward

We asked leading figures in the art world whether the Tate should divide into the British Collections and a museum of international modern art: all but one were in favour