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A decline in visitor numbers, staff strikes and budget cuts – Jessica Morgan faces many challenges as she takes on the biggest role in the British arts scene
A lack of clear vision, low morale, dwindl…
36 days ago
The artist on his need for order, an embarrassing Christmas costume, and the people he hopes to meet in heaven
Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Frank Bowling, 92, moved to the UK aged 19 and did n…
42 days ago
He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential pres…
67 days ago
A new exhibition at Tate Britain includes canvases titled after symphonies and nocturnes, but the inspiration flows in both directions. Plus, how Felicity Lott led me to an epiphany
Comparisons betwee…
68 days ago
When his 15-year-old model did a runner, Whistler’s mother stepped in. As the triumphant result arrives in Britain, the work’s restorer writes about its creator’s brilliance – while wishing he’d used…
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Painting that inspired depiction on £20 note more likely the work of John Opie, says Romantic artist’s biographer
In 2020, Tate Britain hosted the launch of a new £20 banknote bearing representations …
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Tate Britain, London
The Franco-Algerian artist’s exploration of radical film-making in the 1960s and 70s is so seductive it makes you wish the crowd was livelier and the wine was flowing
‘WHEN WORDS F…
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Tate Britain, London
Anderson creates figurative paintings with a dreamlike intangibility, exploring his black British and Jamaican heritage with a startlingly fragile and unresolved intensity
Us and …
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Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’
Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner
Nnena Kalu…
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Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work
JMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to B…