Tag: Tate Britain
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Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas
Raucous, bawdy, sweary and crude, this major survey comprises works that are not always easy to stomach, but which make an important comment on our experiences of sex, class and gender
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Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me
Charting 40 years of the film-maker’s career, this exhibition immerses its audience in slavery, immigration and homophobia. This is cultural activism at its best
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Cornelia Parker
From the shed blown up by the British army to drone-shot footage of the Commons Chamber to a new work referencing Brexit, from the vast to the intimate, this major survey takes us through 30 years of Parker’s work
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Danielle Dean: Amazon
With her playful but disturbing critique of exploitative working practices, Danielle Dean takes the spotlight at Tate’s Art Now commission showcasing emerging artists
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Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1: Blowtorching the Bitten Peach
This show is a fully sensate experience, a meditation of sorts on the state of the world that turns the Duveen Galleries into a space to get lost in, physically and psychologically
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British Baroque: Power and Illusion
The Tate’s first survey of Britain’s late-17th-century art is a misshapen pearl, often glimmering but curiously uneven
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France-Lise McGurn – interview: ‘I think I’ve got a certain aesthetic that’s rooted in 1990s Glasgow’
McGurn talks about motherhood, sleeplessness and strangeness in Glasgow, Berlin and Ibiza, and how they have fed into the work for her new exhibition at Tate Britain
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Frank Bowling
This exhibition of Bowling’s work is colourful, joyous and long overdue. Covering the entire span of his artistic career, it reveals for the first time the importance of this overlooked artist
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Van Gogh and Britain
In its first Van Gogh exhibition since 1947, the Tate considers how British culture informed the artist’s work, and gives a fascinating insight into the influence the social realists had on him and his influence on young British artists
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Don McCullin
McCullin is widely known as a war photographer, but this comprehensive and unflinching exhibition, covering 60 years of his photojournalism and more, shows the full scope of his work









