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...As well as pieces by fellow Polish trailblazers Ewa Pachucka (1936-2020) and Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) — whose bold woven sculptures were the subject of last year’s Tate Modern exhibition Every Tangle...
...Lastly, Victoria Beckham, another resilient species, often derided, who has proved her critics wrong....
...“Yang has amazing technical and colour knowledge,” says artist Victoria Cantons, Xu’s partner, with whom she also shares a studio....
...Founded in London by Ben Tufnell, previously a curator at Tate Britain, and Matt Watkins, who had been the publisher of the Tate Etc magazine, the pair opened with an enviable “Tate mafia” network and brought...
...Many that had stated they would not remove the Sackler name from their buildings — such as London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate gallery group...
...Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life is at Tate Modern until 3 September...
...The British Library (2014), which I first pored over in Turner Contemporary in Margate in 2016 — three years before it was acquired by Tate — has 6,328 hardbacks, gorgeously covered in Dutch wax fabric,...
...The first Viñateros tasting, with 50 wineries, was at Tate Modern in 2017....
...“For the LGBTQ+ community, it’s a site of pilgrimage,” says Victoria Munro, executive director of the Alice Austen House, the only US museum devoted to a woman photographer....
...Lots such as a 1944 Freud self-portrait (£1.5mn-£2mn) and the 2009 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye painting “Diplomacy I” (£1mn-£1.5mn) — recently shown at Tate Britain — “string together a powerful narrative around...
...Art and Activism in the UK 1970—1990’, Tate Britain A must-see retrospective of feminist art and activism....
...At Tate Modern, sculptor El Anatsui’s undulating Red Moon installation glimmers with thousands of discarded bottle tops....
...When the Frieze Art Fair opened in 2003, Tate Modern was only three years old, its visitor figures having surpassed expectations by millions....
...This has turned Hauser & Wirth into a new phenomenon: a private art gallery that often carries itself like a public institution such as the Guggenheim and Tate museums....
...A student of the Royal College of Art, Lele was touted as “one to watch” when taking part in Fashion East at Tate Modern during London Fashion Week in 2017, and is known for work explored through an ever-evolving...
...London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate gallery group did so in 2022....
...When self-titled “Punjabi Liverpudlian” and “radical feminist” Chila Kumari Singh Burman illuminated the front of Tate Britain with a joyful mish-mash of rainbow-coloured drawings in November 2020, her intricate...
...Visitor numbers at the UK’s most popular attractions, including the British Museum and Tate Modern, have failed to rebound since the onset of the pandemic, as the cost of living crisis and a lack of Chinese...
...Cullinan arrived in 2015, an experienced contemporary curator at the Met and Tate, dreaming whom he would invite “if I could commission any artist to portray any subject”....
...“Custodianship is fundamental, but UK museums are world leaders in interpretation, conservation and exhibitions,” says Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...Meanwhile, Perez Simão’s work is experiencing “passionate demand from private and public collections”, says Rubell, and one of Fadojutimi’s paintings was acquired by the Tate in 2019, making her the then-youngest...
...Kraftwerk are established nightlife icons, and watching the German electronic music pioneers emerge before sunset in Victoria Park felt rather surreal....
...Next, came the Victoria and Albert Museum’s fashion and textile department (which holds one of Moralıoğlu’s designs – a yellow hand-embroidered boned organza gown from autumn/winter 2008), and finally, Tate...
...“With all that is going on with the economy, I thought that people would be more subdued, but from the start it has been incredibly busy and lively,” said the London gallerist Victoria Miro....
...Viewed from the train into Victoria, or while driving along the other side of the river, the building had begun to look like an increasingly sorry ruin....
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