Results tagged “Tate Modern”

Celebrated surrealist Joan Miro chose not to be known as Juan as a statement of his Catalonian identity and it is this close identification with his heritage that has influenced much of his art.

A sizable retrospective of the work of the Spanish modernist painter, who died in 1983, opened at the Tate Modern today (Thursday).

A sculptor has given a whole new meaning to the phrase sea legs.

The farrier-turned-artist has created a boat that walks and last Thursday the vessel was intended to be strolling along the shores of the South Bank.

EXHIBITION
Gauguin: Maker Of Myth
Tate Modern
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IN A NUTSHELL
The Tate Modern brings together an impressive collection of Gauguin's work, placing him on the pedestal that he craved.

Middle England has missed a trick. Images that would have caused moral uproar and threatened to close a show appear to have passed under the radar.

Nan Goldin's The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency bears more than a passing resemblance to the work of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Tate Modern turns 10 this month and is celebrating its birthday in style.

More than 45million visitors have passed through the gallery's doors since it first opened to the public 10 years ago, and many of its exhibitions have been huge crowd-pullers such as Matisse, Picasso, Hopper, Warhol and Dali.

If you didn't resolve to get out more in the New Year then maybe you should have.

Whatever your taste in entertainment, there is plenty to look forward to in the coming months. To make it that little bit easier, we have dug out a few of the highlights for you.