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09/09/2024

‘They react as we react. My machines are not washing machines or cars. They have a human quality, and they must change. They get nervous and must stop sometimes. If a machine stops, it doesn’t mean it’s broken. It’s just tired. The tragic or melancholic aspect of machines is very important to me. I don’t want them to run forever. It’s part of their life that they stop and faint.’ – Rebecca Horn

We are deeply saddened to hear that Rebecca Horn has died. The pioneering German artist’s iconic films and sculptures turn familiar materials, gestures and settings into emotionally charged scenes, with objects often taking on a life of their own.

In the late 1960s, Horn began to create wearable sculptures. She later used these ‘body extensions’ in staged actions performed for the camera. The isolation and restraint she felt while confined to bed due to illness inspired these works. She designed them to experiment with how the body moves, senses its surroundings and relates to other people. Her interest in out-of-the-ordinary movements led Horn to develop mechanical sculptures. With them she could explore actions beyond the limits of the human body and mimic animal behaviours.

🪭 Mechanical Body Fan, 1973–4 © Rebecca Horn (Images 1-5)
📷 Installation photography of Rebecca Horn 2009 display at The Tanks, Tate Modern showing: ✏️ Performances II, 1973 and 🎹 Concert for Anarchy, 1990 (Images 6-7)

09/09/2024

‘I have constructed, not destroyed.’ - Lucio Fontana 💭 ✨

In 1959, Fontana began to cut the canvas, with dramatic perfection. These cuts (or tagli) were carefully pre-meditated but executed in an instant. Like the holes in some of his other canvases, they have the effect of drawing the viewer into space.

In some, however, the punctures erupt from the surface carrying the force of the gesture towards the viewer in a way that is at once energetic and threatening. Discover Fontana’s artwork up-close in our free Tate Modern display, Artist and Society: A view from São Paulo. https://bit.ly/3Xq5Ptw

✂️ Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept ‘Waiting’, 1960 © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan

08/09/2024

‘I think of myself as a woman, an Igbo woman, a Nigerian, an African, a person of colour, an artist. The fascinating thing is that the layers I add to how I identify myself change over time. It just keeps broadening as I move farther out into the world’ - Njideka Akunyili Crosby 🎨

Akunyili Crosby was born in Nigeria, where she lived until the age of sixteen. In 1999 she moved to the United States, where she has remained since that time. Her cultural identity combines strong attachments to the country of her birth and to her adopted home, a hybrid identity that is reflected in her work.

'Predecessors' is a diptych by the artist, completed in 2013. Made in acrylic, charcoal and pencil, two separate sheets of paper are displayed unframed and unmounted. The left-hand sheet features a single figure wearing a pink dress, seated in a domestic living-room environment. The subject is the artist’s alter ego, a modern African woman who embodies the nature of the African cosmopolitan lifestyle through her costume, style and mannerisms. She appears consistently in Akunyili Crosby’s works. On the right we see a kitchen with several utensils and kitchen tools which belong to different periods of Nigeria’s history. Completing the imagery in both parts of the work are family photographs and personal memorabilia, mixed with cut-outs from popular magazines and newspapers.

🎨 Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Predecessors, 2013. © Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Photo credit: Sylvain Deleu. Currently on loan Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) in Capturing The Moment https://bit.ly/3XcZDot

07/09/2024

From laden apple trees to yellowing leaves, autumn is often described as ‘the painter's season’ for its inspiration to generations of artists and writers.

Hope you feel inspired this week.

Ford Madox Brown, Carrying Corn 1854–5
Ivon Hitchens, Damp Autumn, 1941
Dame Ethel Walker, Seascape: Autumn Morning, c.1935
Thomas Gainsborough, Wooded Landscape c.1747
William Holman Hunt, Our English Coasts (‘Strayed Sheep’) 1852
Winifred Nicholson, The Hunter’s Moon 1955
Adrian Stokes, Autumn in the Mountains, 1903
Sir Alfred East, Golden Autumn c.1900

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06/09/2024

Some colourful details for a grey day 🌈 🎨

The experimented with bold colours in their works. They were interested in colour theory, which drew links between physics, chemistry, psychology, philosophy and aesthetics. They believed that different colours could influence mood and emotion.

Don't miss your last chance to catch these vibrant works, on display in the exhibition at Tate Modern until 20 October. Book now: https://bit.ly/3I2N9J1

🐴 Wassily Kandinsky, Riding Couple, 1906-1907
🌷 Maria Franck-Marc, Girl with Toddler, circa 1913
🌺Marianne Werefkin, The Dancer Alexander Sacharoff, 1909
☂️ Auguste Macke, Promenade, 1913

05/09/2024

Enter the magical world of Pipilotti Rist. Rist’s environments blur the boundaries between the real and the virtual world. Drawn in by her dream-like spaces and larger-than-life images, we might feel transported to another universe.

This display is part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift of 110 artworks, many of which are now on display at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, and Tate St Ives! This extraordinary donation is one of the most important in Tate’s history, and is rich with thought-provoking works that delve into the essence of what it means to be human.

See Pipilotti Rist’s ‘Lungenflügel’ 2009 on free display at Tate Modern. Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023. https://bit.ly/3ATlF8a

05/09/2024

Do you have a favourite thing to photograph? 📷 ⛰️

Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky’s mountain shots have us feeling inspired. ✨

📷 A mist covered mountain range in Lower Austria, July 1987
⛰️ A cloudy mountain range and field in Altaussee, Austria, 1988
⛰️ A rocky mountain face Altaussee, Austria, 1988
🏡 A mountain range in Majorca, 1988
⛰️ A mountain range at dusk in Altaussee, Austria, 1988
📷 A rocky mountain in Cascais, Portugal, 1994
📷 A mountain range in Austria, 1980
🏡 A field and mountain in Hagengut, Austria, 1984

🎞️ © Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust https://bit.ly/3TfZM9v

04/09/2024

American-born artist Rita Keegan moved to England in the late 1970s. Drawing from her family archive dating back to the 1880s, Keegan creates striking monoprint collages, tearing up old photos and documents to form new imaginative compositions.

Here, Keegan employs images and fragments from this archive to create monoprint collages. The artist describes her practice as a response to ‘a feminist perspective' of 'putting yourself in the picture’.

In talking about her process, Keegan explains ‘I’ve always felt that to tear somebody’s face can be quite violent, but if you’re doing that to your own face, you’ve given yourself permission, so it’s no longer a violent act. It’s a deconstructive act. It’s a way of looking.’ https://bit.ly/3XaUIVa

Rita Keegan, Love, S*x and Romance 1984

04/09/2024

How's your day sounding? 🎵

🎹 William Chase, The Keynote, 1915 https://t.co/tQRXdGoULn

03/09/2024

Have you seen his artwork before? 👀

Joseph Wright, born on this day 1734, was a painter of portraits and subject-pictures who spent most of his life in his birth-place, Derby. From the mid 1760s he began to paint scenes of contemporary scientific and industrial life, of which 'An Iron Forge' (seen here) is one of the most striking.

The central figure of the picture is the iron-founder, presented in a commanding pose as he pauses in his work to cast a proud eye towards his wife and children. The workman, or 'finer', with his back to the viewer, holds the glowing metal over the anvil with a pair of tongs, ready to be hammered. The iron-founder's role as overseer and his relaxed attitude - even his faintly dandyish striped waistcoat - suggest that the introduction of new machinery in his forge has brought about a lightening of his workload.

Discover the painting up-close on free display at Tate Britain. 🏛️ https://bit.ly/47ecNGv

02/09/2024

‘Improvisation is one of the most raw, honest ways of expressing how we feel.’ - Emma Rawicz 🎶 🎷 🎨

In this film, Jazz musician and saxophonist Emma Rawicz, who experiences synesthesia, gives us her personal, improvised musical response to the art of the Blue Rider found in our Tate Modern exhibition, Expressionists.

Discover the bold and vibrant works of Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider artists, together in the UK for the first time in over half a century. Until 20 October 2024. https://bit.ly/3I2N9J1

01/09/2024

☀️ Good morning, September! ☀️

In 1976-7, British artist and Yorkshireman Peter Brook created a lithograph of each month of the year. Brought up in a farming family, the artist had a strong connection to the Yorkshire landscape. The resulting series shares Brook's muted and serene vision of the changing seasons, and the beauty within each. As well as being a celebrated artist in his lifetime, Brook was also an art teacher. He told his students: 'if you want a subject, look around you'. Nicknamed 'The Pennine Landscape Painter', Brook passed away in 2009, his life's work living on as a tribute to the British countryside he called home.

🐑 SEPTEMBER Cornfield - Sheep on the Wrong Side of the Gate
🛣️ OCTOBER Pennine Road
🍃 NOVEMBER Late Afternoon
❄️ DECEMBER Sheep Coming In
🏔️ JANUARY Pennine Valley
🐕‍🦺 FEBRUARY Fill-Dyke in Wigan
🌾 APRIL Showers
🛶 JUNE Canal
🎪 JULY After the Gala
🏠 AUGUST Cottage in Anglesey

31/08/2024

Majesty 👑 🍃 One of the largest and oldest complete oak trees in England, which features in this 2006 artwork by Tacita Dean.

Dean created a series of 'Deformed Trees' by painting over old black and white postcards depicting trees, from a collection she had been acquiring from fleamarkets all over the world since the mid 1990s. The artist's methodology is a combination of idea-driven research with an openness to chance, accident, coincidence and poetic associations, which she allows to direct her processes.
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🖼️ Tacita Dean, Majesty 2006. https://bit.ly/42vTdTH

29/08/2024

Ready for the beach?

Swiss photographer René Burri (1933–2014) made numerous trips to Brazil during his lifetime, capturing Rio de Janeiro's iconic coastline and famous beaches. He loved to capture photographs from rooftops and balconies, finding symmetry and pattern in people and architecture. In this colourful beach scene, the different designs of the sun umbrellas give the image rich colouration against the light beige of the sand, peppered with eye-popping patterns.

Burri’s use of both bird’s eye views and his attention to the effects of light and shadow are reminiscent of techniques used by modernist photographers in the early 20th century.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 1967, printed 2014 © Estate of René Burri © DACS 2022.

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28/08/2024

‘My context has been surrounded by forests, mountains and coastal experiences; the development of a ‘tropical’ way of thinking. In St Ives it is very special for me to experience the same ocean as Rio de Janeiro. Same water, different cultures, but in the end it is all about life.’ – Beatriz Milhazes 🌊

Last chance to catch Beatriz Milhazes: Maresias at Tate St Ives, an exhibition tracing the last four decades of Brazilian artist Milhazes's career. The artist's intensely colourful, large-scale abstract canvases adapt the concept of collage to painting.

🖼️ On display until 29 September. https://bit.ly/4bHpMkO

27/08/2024

J.M.W. Turner painted the sea and the sky more than anything else in his lifetime. He travelled regularly with his sketchbook in hand, making sketches of ships, coasts and clouds. He was always looking up, so much so that in his paintings it sometimes seems that our planet is but a platform from which to see the sky.

Turner would not have intended his late, loose watercolour studies to have been exhibited publicly. Nevertheless, these (once) private, informal paintings reveal how he thought of landscapes in terms of pure colour. 💙

☁️ Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sea and Sky, English Coast c.1832, Tate Collection https://bit.ly/4dwzqHO

27/08/2024

🖤 Man Ray, producer of some of the most celebrated photographs of the modern era, was born on this day in 1890.

Man Ray was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all.

Man Ray was best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs".

📷 Eileen Agar snapped this portrait of her friend and fellow Surrealist Man Ray at the beach in Juan-les-pins, France, in September 1937.

26/08/2024

Bank Holiday Monday + International Dog Day = A selection of sleepy dogs. 💤

🐕‍🦺 Edwin Henry Landseer, Sleeping Bloodhound, exhibited 1835
📷 Eileen Agar, Photograph of Joseph Bard sitting with Dandy the dog, 1930s
🐩 John Singer Sargent, The Misses Hunter, 1902
🛋️ Lucian Freud, Girl with a White Dog, 1951–1952
🐶 David Wojnarowicz, Untitled, 1988
🪑 Meraud Guevara, Seated Woman with Small Dog, c.1939
🐕 Vanessa Bell, Black and white negative of Angelica Bell smiling and holding Clinker the dog in front of a brick wall at Charleston, Firle, Sussex, c1927–8
🎶 Ithell Colquhoun, Painting showing a woman and man (playing a flute) sitting in the countryside with a dog, c.1927–30

25/08/2024

Giddy up! Today marks 300 years since the birth of one of Britain's most beloved horse painters, George Stubbs. 🐎🖌️🎨

Stubbs’ paintings of horses marked a milestone in animal painting. Rather than appearing as supporting characters in his paintings, Stubbs brought these majestic creatures to the forefront—making horses the mane event. 👀

The self-taught artist was devoted to understanding horses, from the hide to the muscles, arteries, tendons, and down to the bone. By studying horses in detail, Stubbs achieved unbridled realism in his images.

🐴 Otho, with John Larkin up 1768
🐴 Mares and Foals in a River Landscape c.1763–8
🐴 Grey Hunter with a Groom and a Greyhound at Creswell Crags c.1762–4
🐴 Bay Hunter by a Lake 1787

📍 See Stubbs' four-legged beauties up close in our free Tate Britain display 'Stubbs and Wallinger: The Horse in Art'. https://bit.ly/3yFWFRg

24/08/2024

It’s Notting Hill Carnival weekend! 🎉

These photos are by Horace Ové, a Trinidadian-born British photographer, filmmaker and founding member of the Notting Hill Carnival. He documented the birth of the celebration and its growth through the 70s and 80s.

As his son Zak Ové remembers: ‘His peer group brought this tradition with them when they migrated from the Caribbean… They were attracted to one another because they wanted a better world, and the world they imagined was nothing like the one they inherited.’

🎶 Generations, Notting Hill Carnival c.1969
🖤 First Generation Children, Ladbroke Grove, 1969
☀️ Walking Proud, Notting Hill Carnival c. 1972
🔊 Sound System Boys, Notting Hill Carnival c. 1980
🎨 Clowns, Trinidad, 1969

23/08/2024

Closing soon! Don’t miss Oscar Murillo’s ‘flooded garden’ at Tate Modern.

Murillo invites everyone to join him in creating a vibrant work of epic proportions. Pick up a paintbrush and make your mark using wave-like strokes to flood a giant canvas.

Oscar Murillo’s UNIQLO Tate Play: 'The flooded garden' will be on at Tate Modern until 26 August 2024. Entry is free, with no ticket required. Open daily from 10.30am to 6:.00pm – don’t miss out! https://bit.ly/3YUgYVC

22/08/2024

🎞️ The 80s: Photographing Britain 🎞️
📆 Opens 21 November
📍Tate Britain

Explore photography from one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s.

This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years, set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification. Explore powerful photography that gave voice and visibility to underrepresented groups in society in a decade of social and political change.

🔗 Tickets now on sale: https://bit.ly/3YW6epM

📸 Ting A Ling, from Handsworth Self Portrait, 1979. Derek Bishton, Brian Homer & John Reardon.

21/08/2024

Photograms by György Kepes 🖐️ 🎞️ ☀️

The photographic prints are created without using a camera by layering objects onto photographic paper and exposing it to light. The technique is as old as photography itself, but emerged again in the early 1920s. They are also known as ‘rayographs’ because of artist Man Ray’s personalisation of the technique. https://bit.ly/3WHyn0Y

🖐️ György Kepes, Hand on Black Ground, c.1939-40
🥚 György Kepes, Lily and Egg, c.1939-40
📐 György Kepes, Compass and Strainer Photogram, c.1939-40

20/08/2024

‘In my world, every human is beautiful’ - Zanele Muholi

In the 1990s, South Africa went through big changes. The 1996 constitution was the first in the world to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, but the LGBTQIA+ community still faces violence and prejudice today.

Muholi’s work challenges harmful stereotypes by showing their subjects as brave, resilient people who continue to live with dignity despite discrimination and threats. By enhancing the contrast in the photographs, Muholi also emphasises the darkness of their skin tone, reclaiming their Blackness with pride and re-asserting its beauty.

With over 260 photographs on show, our Tate Modern exhibition charts Muholi’s work from their emergence as an activist in the early 2000s to the present day. Book your ticket today: https://bit.ly/4dwBekwd

19/08/2024

'The photograph fulfils my deep need to stop things from disappearing... I have tried to create order out of chaos, to find stability in flux and beauty in the most unlikely places.' - Dorothy Bohm

Born in 1924 in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Dorothy Bohm fled to Lithuania in 1932 to escape Na**sm. In 1939, she was gifted a Leica camera by her father before being sent to safety in Britain.

Bohm's journey led her to become a celebrated British photographer, known for her poignant portraiture, captivating street scenes, pioneering use of colour, and iconic images of London and Paris. She died in London on 15 March 2023, at the age of 98.

Today is World Photography Day! What is your favourite subject to photograph?

Petticoat Lane Market, East End, London, c.1960–9
Earlham Street, Covent Garden, London, c.1960–9
Notting Hill, London, c.1960
Market stall, Islington, London, c.1960–9
Petticoat Lane Market, East End, London, c.1960–9
Paris, 1970

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18/08/2024

Sunday night has arrived. We hope you had a lovely weekend. 💚💤

🏠 Ian Hamilton Finlay's 'The End (Collaboration with Ian Gardner)' 1975–6 is on free display at Tate Modern 🏭 https://bit.ly/4diySFO

17/08/2024

Summer with Seurat ☀️ 🎨

Georges Seurat painted this work while on holiday on the Normandy coast in the summer of 1885. He made a study on the spot but refined and developed the image in his studio.

Seurat aimed to place painting on a scientific basis in its treatment of light and colour and, using a style known as Divisionism, combined small brushstrokes of complementary colours to create a luminous effect in his works.

🖼️ Georges Seurat, Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp, 1885 https://bit.ly/4fEQ5uF

15/08/2024

‘My work is about opening up a conversation and opening up other ways of seeing’ - New Delhi-based artist, photographer, writer and activist Sheba Chhachhi. 📷

Chhachhi captures her worldview through the camera lens. Her work focuses on issues surrounding women and ecology, and she was actively involved in the women’s rights movement in 1980s. The above image, captured in 1982, is from a series of work that records the artist's long-term engagement with the feminist movement in India. Her images, both staged and documentary, were used in posters, pamphlets and street theatre campaigns to end violence against women. ‘I was literally shouting slogans one moment and pointing the camera the next’, she says.

Sheba Chhachhi, Urvashi - Anti Dowry sit-in, 1982, from Seven Lives and a Dream, Tate Collection https://bit.ly/4dm2mTl

14/08/2024

Taking a closer look at Cossacks by Wassily Kandinsky 🔍

Kandinsky believed paintings did not need to represent the real world. If you look closely at this artwork, there are some recognisable shapes - the cossacks (Russian cavalrymen) in their orange hats on the right of the painting, the castle on a hill and birds filling the sky on the top right. But there are also abstract shapes. 🏰 🦅

The artist felt emotions could be expressed through the way colours and lines were arranged in a painting. He linked musical tones to particular colours, and considered colour to have a powerful spiritual impact, saying ‘The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ochre. These memories go back to the third year of my life.’

Along with other artists in the Blue Rider group, Kandinsky experimented with the relationship between sound and colour, developing a bold, dramatic and distinctive style. 🔷

🌈 Wassily Kandinsky, Cossacks, 1910–1. On display in Expressionists at Tate Modern until 20 October. Book now. Members go free. 🎟️ https://bit.ly/3I2N9J1

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Enter the magical world of Pipilotti Rist. Rist’s environments blur the boundaries between the real and the virtual world. Drawn in by her dream-like spaces and larger-than-life images, we might feel transported to another universe. This display is part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift of 110 artworks, many of which are now on display at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, and Tate St Ives! This extraordinary donation is one of the most important in Tate’s history, and is rich with thought-provoking works that delve into the essence of what it means to be human. See Pipilotti Rist’s ‘Lungenflügel’ 2009 on free display at Tate Modern. Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023. https://bit.ly/3ATlF8a

Expressionists at Tate Modern

‘Improvisation is one of the most raw, honest ways of expressing how we feel.’ - Emma Rawicz 🎶 🎷 🎨 In this film, Jazz musician and saxophonist Emma Rawicz, who experiences synesthesia, gives us her personal, improvised musical response to the art of the Blue Rider found in our Tate Modern exhibition, Expressionists. Discover the bold and vibrant works of Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider artists, together in the UK for the first time in over half a century. Until 20 October 2024. https://bit.ly/3I2N9J1

Closing soon! Don’t miss Oscar Murillo’s ‘flooded garden’ at Tate Modern. Murillo invites everyone to join him in creating a vibrant work of epic proportions. Pick up a paintbrush and make your mark using wave-like strokes to flood a giant canvas. Oscar Murillo’s UNIQLO Tate Play: 'The flooded garden' will be on at Tate Modern until 26 August 2024. Entry is free, with no ticket required. Open daily from 10.30am to 6:.00pm – don’t miss out! https://bit.ly/3YUgYVC

‘In my world, every human is beautiful’ - Zanele Muholi In the 1990s, South Africa went through big changes. The 1996 constitution was the first in the world to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, but the LGBTQIA+ community still faces violence and prejudice today. Muholi’s work challenges harmful stereotypes by showing their subjects as brave, resilient people who continue to live with dignity despite discrimination and threats. By enhancing the contrast in the photographs, Muholi also emphasises the darkness of their skin tone, reclaiming their Blackness with pride and re-asserting its beauty. With over 260 photographs on show, our Tate Modern exhibition charts Muholi’s work from their emergence as an activist in the early 2000s to the present day. Book your ticket today: https://bit.ly/4dwBekwd

Verity Babbs, art critic and comedian, delves into the works of Florence Claxton and Rosa Bonheur, both artists currently on display in our Now You See Us exhibition at Tate Britain. Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 dismantles stereotypes surrounding women artists in history, who were often thought of as amateurs. On display until 13 October 2024. As always, Members go free and tickets are £5 for Tate Collective. https://bit.ly/3yxodIr

Mildred the Gallery Cat

Introducing… 🥁 Mildred the Gallery Cat 🎨 😺 Inspired by a real-life cat who lived in Tate Modern, Mildred the Gallery Cat was created by author and illustrator, Jono Ganz. Discover Mildred’s after-hours adventures in her book in all Tate Shops. https://bit.ly/3P4L2pd 🎥 12 - 16 August, 1pm to 3pm: Join us at Tate Modern's Starr Cinema for our cinematic summer screening drop-in as we show a selection of Tate Kids short films, including our new film starring Mildred. https://bit.ly/3YG1hS1

‘I want the audiences to take away peace, liberation and joy and to know that magic and creativity is within them’ - Bishi For this year’s Glastonbury Festival, we joined musician Bishi and DJ and journalist Kate Hutchinson on their journey to performing Yoko Ono’s powerful ‘Voice Piece for Soprano’. Delve into Yoko Ono's groundbreaking, influential and multidisciplinary career in our Tate Modern exhibition YOKO ONO Music Of The Mind. Open until 1 September 2024. Members go free. https://bit.ly/3YCUlF0

Happy birthday Andy Warhol

Happy birthday Andy Warhol, born on this day 1928! In August 1962, the same month that Warhol began experimenting with silkscreen techniques, Marilyn Monroe tragically passed away. Between August and December of that year, Warhol created at least twenty-three paintings of Monroe using his newfound silkscreen method. All of these works were based on the same photograph: a 20th Century Fox publicity still for the 1953 film 'Niagara', taken by Gene Kornman. These pieces varied in their execution, with some rendered in colour and others in black and white. One of the most renowned works from this series, 'Marilyn Diptych', has become a cornerstone of Tate's collection since its acquisition in 1980. Due to its immense popularity, the piece has been on almost continuous display. Over the past two years, our Conservators and Scientists have undertaken a meticulous cleaning process to restore the artwork's vibrant colours whilst preserving all of Warhol's original touches. Tate is pleased to acknowledge that some of the equipment used to support this conservation treatment was generously supported by an UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Capability for Collections (CapCo) Fund award 2020-2022. https://bit.ly/3LTWxQZ

We’re feeling carnival inspired with Alvaro Barrington ahead of The Big Weekender festival at Tate Britain! Soak up the summer sun this weekend with Tate Britain’s The Big Weekender, a free festival celebrating all things carnival, music, community and home, in partnership with Notting Hill Carnival. Saturday 3 August 11am to 4pm: Calling all families, join us as we paint, hear stories, and dance. Take part in an interactive large-scale game with A Line Art, painting, dress-up and reading activities throughout the day, as well as performances and workshops. Grab some snacks from our food trucks or take a picnic to this outdoor adventure of storytelling, painting and performance. 4pm to 10pm: Time for a block party! We’ve partnered up with Notting Hill Carnival for an evening of music and performance that brings the carnival vibes to Tate Britain to kick off summer. Inside the galleries and out on the front lawn, music and performances will transform Tate Britain. Listen to sounds from Reprezent Radio and Saxon Sound System enjoy a one-off performance from Chisara Agor and friends, with workshops inspired by the people closest to us. Sunday 4 August 11pm to 5pm: Come and unwind with us at our Sunday Social. It’s all about good vibes as legendary steel drum players liven up the scene. Bounce to Saxon Sound System and let our food trucks tempt you. Meander through the galleries and outdoor spaces, soak in the carnival atmosphere and enjoy the perfect blend of art, music, and community. Tate Britain’s The Big Weekender is inspired by Alvaro Barrington’s GRACE commission, and part of our Gather Together event series. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/gather-together/the-big-weekender

Visiting Mari Katayama's Studio

‘Art should be for everyone’ – Mari Katayama 🪡 🧵 Artist Mari Katayama creates hand-sewn sculptures and photographs that prompt conversations and challenge misconceptions about our bodies. Born with the developmental condition congenital tibial hemimelia, Katayama chose to have her legs amputated at the age of nine. Her wearable sculptures, which also feature in her images, often include limbs, hands and embellished hearts. In this film, we visit Katayama at her studio in Japan and hear about how she uses everyday materials that she finds around her – including her own body, clothes and newspaper clippings – to make her sculptures and images. As she says, 'I use materials that anyone can get anywhere. I think that the needle and the thread are the strongest tools.' 🩷 Discover Mari Katayama's artworks on free display at Tate Modern today. ➡️ https://bit.ly/46iU1gw

Tate Britain's 127th Birthday

It’s Tate Britain’s 127th birthday! 🎉 In the 1890s, Sidney Smith was chosen as the architect to build a new gallery for British art. His striking design, with its grand stairway entrance, first opened to the public in 1897 with an exhibition of 245 works in eight rooms from British artists dating back to 1790. Today, Tate Britain is home to over 500 years of British art, displaying much-loved favourites from the Pre-Raphaelites to David Hockney, Bridget Riley and Lubaina Himid, as well as hosting iconic shows of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, Barbara Hepworth and Vincent Van Gogh. What's been your most memorable visit? 🎈 https://bit.ly/3jcpael

UNIQLO Tate Play: Oscar Murillo The Flooded Garden

Dive into the joy of painting this summer with UNIQLO Tate Play: Oscar Murillo, The Flooded Garden, now open at Tate Modern. 💙 🩵 💚 🌿 Artist Oscar Murillo has transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an enormous painting garden. Join us in creating a vibrant artwork of epic proportions, inspired by Claude Monet’s paintings and Murillo’s own series of Surge artworks. Like the artist, use deep hues of blue, bright yellows and pinks to make your mark. Oscar Murillo's UNIQLO Tate Play The Flooded Garden will be on at Tate Modern until 26 August 2024. Entry is free with no ticket needed, though make sure you’re dressed suitably for getting messy! https://bit.ly/3LhKc95 In partnership with UNIQLO Europe 🗓️ As part of The Flooded Garden, there will be free performances every Wednesday at 3pm, filling the Turbine Hall with the folkloric sounds of Mar, Río y Cordillera, a group of 13 musicians from the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia, creating a layered soundscape of voice. https://bit.ly/4faW9Li 🗓️ On Thursday 1 August at 3pm, experience a group of international performers using voice to interpret the artworks in Oscar Murillo’s free South Tank installation. https://bit.ly/4faW9Li

Sin Wai Kin

‘Every character that I’m trying to create is a reflection or a site for people to see themselves.’ – Sin Wai Kin Sin Wai Kin’s practice pivots around the use of fiction within performance and moving image to question the idealised image and the collective gaze. Sin uses drag as a means to reimagine our relationships to our bodies and our bodies' relationship to the world. https://bit.ly/45ZUxje

David Hockney

How do you paint memorable pictures? 🎨 💦 In this 2016 film, David Hockney reflects on over 60 years of painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. 🎞️ 🔗 https://bit.ly/4cCbcfl

African Heritage tour - Damel Carayol

‘This space belongs to you, as it does to everybody.’ - Damel Carayol Settle in as we join tour guide and artist Damel for an African Heritage tour through the galleries at Tate Britain. Explore the rich history and influence of people of African and Caribbean Heritage in British Art from the 1500s to the present day by joining one of our free tours today. Check out upcoming dates and times over on our website. Agostino Brunias, Dancing Scene in the Caribbean 1764–96 Thomas Gainsborough, The Baillie Family c.1784 Emily Soyer, Two Children with a Book 1831along Chris Ofili, No Woman, No Cry 1998 https://bit.ly/3XTZmZl.

Expressionists at Tate Modern

Getting lost in the colourful worlds of the Expressionists. 🎨 See these exhilarating paintings up-close in Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider, at Tate Modern until 20 October. Members go free. 🎟️ https://bit.ly/3I2N9J1

Get to know Vlassis Caniaris

Get to know Greek artist Vlassis Caniaris (1928–2011) 🧺 Considered one of the leading artists of Greek modernism, he used everyday objects to explore themes of migration and displacement. Caniaris breathed life into newspapers, suitcases, and even his family's old clothes. These familiar items became windows into the lives of migrant workers in the 1970s, telling stories of hope, struggle and new beginnings, reminding us that art can reflect the human experience, using the simplest of objects to tell the most complex of stories. See his work in our free Tate Modern display, Artist and Society. https://bit.ly/3XMLAbd Vlassis Caniaris, Possible Background, 1971. Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023 https://bit.ly/3W7JFws

Tate Britain LGBTQIA+ Tours

This Pride Month, we took a stroll through Tate Britain to experience a few of the artworks found on our free LGBTQIA+ Tours. Too hot outside? Escape the heat and join one of our free tours at Tate Britain or Tate Modern as we explore the collection through the lens of gender identity and sexuality. Head to our website to find out more! https://bit.ly/4cxLWGC

Sargent and Fashion closes 7 July

Don’t miss the details… Last chance to catch Sargent and Fashion at Tate Britain - this ‘dazzling’ and ‘majestic’ show closes 7 July. John Singer Sargent used fashion as a powerful tool to express identity and personality. With almost 60 paintings, showcased alongside many of the garments worn by the sitters, discover how this remarkable painter created portraits still captivating us today. Book your tickets today or become a Member for unlimited visits to Tate shows. https://bit.ly/3RTc3iA

‘To cross borders, to board dinghies, and to survive perilous journeys, these aren’t only acts of survival but acts of the imagination, and as art shows us, imagination knows no borders.’ - Ismail Einashe We joined writer Ismail Einashe as he examines artworks from Britain’s national collection of art, exploring themes of migration, belonging, and the challenges of finding shelter in a foreign land. In his book ‘Look Again: Strangers’, Einashe suggests that art can uniquely convey the stories of migration in a way that politics cannot. @ismaileinashe @TatePublishing

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