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Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day, from the Tudors to the Turner Prize.
Venue Type:
Gallery
Tate holds the greatest collection of British art in the world, including works by Blake, Constable, Epstein, Gainsborough, Gilbert & George, Hatoum, Hirst, Hockney, Hodgkin, Hogarth, Moore, Rossetti, Sickert, Spencer, Stubbs and Turner. The gallery is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art, and helps promote interest in British art internationally.
Collection details
Photography, Performing Arts, Fine Art, Film and Media, Archives
Key artists and exhibits
- Blake
- Constable
- Epstein
- Gainsborough
- Gilbert & George
- Hatoum
- Hirst
- Hockney
- Hodgkin
- Hogarth
- Moore
- Rossetti
- Sickert
- Spencer
- Stubbs
- Turner
ARTIST ROOMS: Douglas Gordon
In Play Dead
Real Time 2003 the artist presents a silent video installation featuring an Indian elephant called Minnie. Brought in from the Connecticut circus, she is depicted carrying out a series of tricks on the command of her off-screen trainer.
Suitable for
Admission
Free
BP British Art Displays: Looking at the View
Artists across the centuries have depicted the landscape around them in a multitude of ways, from detailed close ups of nature to distant views framed by trees or soaring bird’s-eye perspectives.
In early 2013 Tate Britain presents Looking at the View, a new BP British Art display display exploring the ways British artists have framed the view in their work from JMW Turner and William Hodges to Tracey Emin and Julian Opie.
The display will reveal apparently unconnected artists have looked at the landscape in surprisingly similar ways, and raise questions about how much art influences the way we all see our surroundings.
Suitable for
- Any age
Where
Tate Britain, Level 2 Galleries, Supported by BP
Admission
Free.
Website
Gary Hume and Patrick Caulfield
At Tate Britain see a focused selection of work by Gary Hume (born 1962), one of Britain’s most renowned contemporary painters, shown at Tate Britain in parallel with a survey of the celebrated British painter Patrick Caulfield (1935–2005), illuminating the comparable work of these two artists from different generations.
Admission
Ticket prices to be announced shortly
Website
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/gary-hume-and-patrick-caulfield
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life results from an invitation extended to the distinguished art historians T.J. Clark and Anne M. Wagner to reappraise Lowry for a new, extended audience. Including works by Lowry from Tate collection and significant loans, the exhibition re-assesses his contribution as part of a wider art history, showing how he engaged fruitfully with the French tradition, and argues for his achievement as Britain’s pre-eminent painter of the industrial city.
Admission
Ticket prices to be announced shortly
Website
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/lowry-and-painting-modern-life
BP Spotlight: Basic Design
Basic Design was a new and radical approach to training in art schools and this display will explore the role that it played in revolutionising art education across Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Suitable for
Admission
Free
BP Spotlight: Constable’s Cornfield
This display will look in detail at A Cornfield 1817 by John Constable, an important painting in Tate’s collection. It will offer fresh insights by juxtaposing Tate’s picture with Constable’s version of the same composition from the National Gallery.
Suitable for
Admission
Free
Focus: Rose Wylie
In May 2013 Tate Britain will present an exhibition of new and recent work by painter Rose Wylie. Wylie makes large scale energetic and compelling images drawn from memory and inspired by her veracious appetite for visual culture, whether ancient wall paintings, work by other artists, films, news stories or her observation of daily events.
Admission
Free
Website
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/focus-rose-wylie
The Tate Britain Commission: Simon Starling
Leading British artist and Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, will create a major new project for the Tate Britain Commission 2013, supported by Sotheby's. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate's collection of British and international art. Through his work, Starling reveals hidden histories, processes and economies that bring objects, images or events into being
Suitable for
- Any age
BP Spotlight: Keith Arnatt
Keith Arnatt was a British conceptual artist who used photography as a way of documenting perfromative acts that question the status of art and the role of the artist. Using recent acquisitions, this display will show the range of Arnatt’s work and his singular use of photography, focusing on his work of the 1970s and 1980s.
Suitable for
Admission
Free
David Tremlett Drawing for Free Thinking
Drawing for Free Thinking is a new wall drawing for Tate Britain, designed to wrap around the Manton stairwell. Inspired by the long tradition of twentieth-century constructivism and by David Tremlett’s involvement in conceptual art in the 1970s, Drawing for Free Thinking consists of broad blocks of strong colour, straight lines, squares and rectangles. It explores floor plans and architectural features the artist has encountered at the gallery such as doorways or windows abstracted into geometric shapes. Tremlett and his team of assistants work with pastel crayons which they rub directly onto the wall with the palms of their hands.
Admission
Free
Website
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-tremlett-drawing-free-thinking
Simon Starling in conversation with Janet Harbord
Simon Starling discusses his work for the Duveens Commission with Janet Harbord, Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary University
Suitable for
When
6:30-8:30pm
Admission
Adult £9
Artists’ talk: Framing the View
Join us for a tour of Looking at the View with Fiona Crisp and Lisa Milroy, two artists participating in the display. They will explore interchanges between photography and painting with reference to the act of framing the view in both literal and metaphorical terms.
Suitable for
When
6:30-8pm
Admission
Adult £9
Art in Focus: May 2013
A free 15-minute talk by a Tate Guide on a work from the Tate collection. This month, find out about Joseph Wright of Derby’s An Iron Forge 1772, one of his famous depictions of new inventions and technology.Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
Suitable for
Admission
Free
Late at Tate: Chronology
Taking inspiration from the re-hang of the Tate Collection and current exhibitions, young Londoners will curate a Late at Tate which looks at time, influence, history and transition with a contemporary perspective. A collaboration between University of the Arts London and Tate Britain.
Suitable for
When
6-9:30pm
Admission
Free, no booking required
Late at Tate: Fashion Performance
Tate Britain and University of the Arts London have worked with over 35 young Londoners, using print, jewellery and costume design, to examine the theme of Time and Influence through performance and interventions across the gallery. This fashion show is the culmination of work produced over a period of 4 months inspired by the re-hang of the Tate Collection.
Suitable for
When
6-9pm
Admission
Free, no booking required
Wanderlust: Imagining the Landscape
Look again at the British landscape through the lens of contemporary psychogeographers and new nature writers. Journey through some of the 18th to 21st century works in Tate’s collection with writer and artist Justin Hopper and explore how societal changes are reflected through the artist’s imagination of our environment. Develop your own language of landscape through writing and discussion in the galleries.
Suitable for
Admission
Adult £120
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