Vivian Suter: the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs...
She was ignored for decades, but now Suter has been rediscovered as a pioneering eco-artist. We meet her, and her 97-year-old collagist mum, in the wilds of GuatemalaA large dog romps across a blue and...
View ArticleTate galleries to make half of commercial workforce redundant
313 jobs to go in publishing and shops, cafes and restaurants in London, Liverpool and St IvesTate has announced 313 redundancies across its commercial enterprises, which include staff who work in...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on access to art: drifting away | Editorial
As redundancies loom and opportunities for cultural experiences narrow, the arts risk regressing into a pastime for the eliteThe grim news in the arts continues apace. Tate wrote to staff this week...
View ArticleTate to cut 120 gallery jobs in £4.8m cost-cutting drive
Arts organisation says it is aiming for voluntary redundancies as it struggles with impact of pandemicTate is cutting 120 roles among its gallery staff as part of a £4.8m cost-cutting exercise that it...
View ArticleBagpipes v Covid: Aliza Nisenbaum's glowing tributes to the pandemic frontline
The revered painter of vibrant portraits has celebrated the courage of Merseyside health staff – without leaving LA. She reveals how she captured her sitters in scrubs, asleep and even blowing the...
View ArticleSir Alan Bowness obituary
Accomplished director of the Tate in the 1980s who updated the gallery’s approach and expanded its reachSir Alan Bowness, who has died aged 93, was born to be director of the Tate Gallery. When he was...
View ArticleFrom brutal Dubuffet to nice guy Nero: what to see as art exhibitions open
As galleries reopen their doors, we preview a visual feast that includes Rodin, Eileen Agar, Paula Rego, Matthew Barney – and an out-of-body experience in LiverpoolMore events to enjoy: Classical | Pop...
View ArticleFrom Cézanne to surrealism: Tate unveils 2022 programme
Other exhibitions include Cornelia Parker, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth and the Turner prize A globe-spanning surrealism survey, a Cornelia Parker retrospective and a blockbuster Cézanne exhibition...
View ArticleTate galleries cut ties with sanctioned billionaires after Ukraine invasion
Group severs relations with donors and supporters who were sanctioned by US and EURussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesThe Tate has severed relations with Viktor Vekselberg and Petr Aven after the Russian...
View ArticleTurner prize: Trafalgar Square whipped cream and fly sculpture among shortlist
Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin in running as prize returns to LiverpoolAdrian Searle: this is a lip-smacking shortlistThe artist who installed the fourth plinth...
View ArticleBreadfruit, cherries and drag: this is a lip-smacking Turner prize shortlist
Made up of artists from different generations, this all women/non-binary shortlist shows up the preoccupations they have in common: identity, migration and a sense of placeWhat a good Turner prize...
View ArticleNukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art
From a cruise missile Constable to a rampaging neon giant, artists have always used rural settings to confront the uses and abuses of land. We go behind the scenes at a riveting new Liverpool show that...
View ArticleRadical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’
Tate LiverpoolIt has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate...
View ArticleRadical Landscapes review – consciousness-raising from the ground up
Tate LiverpoolGainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews sit pretty alongside Greenham Common barbed wire in this instructive if not quite groundbreaking roam around the contested land and landscapes of...
View ArticleThrifty summer: free films, folk and standup – 25 cost-free ways to enjoy...
You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnivalMusicContinue reading...
View ArticleTate regrets way in which relationship with artists ended | Letter
Roland Rudd, the chair of Tate, on resolving a dispute with three artistsIt was disappointing to read the article which describes allegations that Tate denies (‘They moved to silence and erase’:...
View ArticleJMW Turner: Dark Waters review – death and despair in a prison of Arctic ice
Tate LiverpoolTurner’s masterful paintings of whalers and explorers, partly inspired by an Arctic expedition that went missing, are given a sombre undertow by composer Lamin Fofana’s haunting...
View ArticleTurner prize 2022 review – as baffling as ever
Tate LiverpoolIngrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Heather Phillipson and Sin Wai Kin go head to head in a jumble of boyband promos, apocalyptic raves and the ghosts of racismThere was a time when the...
View ArticleVeronica Ryan is a sensational choice as Turner prize-winner
The Montserrat-born sculptor’s mature, meditative works are the opposite of the brash art that usually impresses the judges – and cap the first Turner worth caring about in yearsVeronica Ryan is much...
View ArticleFostering curiosity: the Tate brings great art to the people of Merseyside
Works from the museum’s collection begin a 10-week tour of the Liverpool city region In a Merseyside car park eight-year-old children are cheerfully debating surrealism in front of works from a...
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