Tag: Tate Britain

  • Chris Ofili at Tate Britain

    Chris Ofili’s mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is a crowd pleaser, and this is no bad thing. What comes across most strongly in the exhibition is Ofili’s tactile approach to painting and his joy of colour, leading to the exciting…

  • Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain

    Classified, a new collection display at Tate Britain, draws on the Tate’s own collection of contemporary work to disrupt and delight in a similar manner to Borges’s encyclopaedia

  • Rewinding personalities: Van Dyck at Tate Britain

    The short journey from the British Museum down to Tate Britain is currently a rewarding trip. The British Museum gives us, with the exhibition dedicated to Shah Abbas, the early 17th century unifier of Iran, a clear comparison as to…

  • Francis Bacon at Tate Britain

    Francis Bacon (1909-1992) at Tate Britain heralds the artist’s centenary in 2009. It is the first retrospective since 1985, enabling a re-assessment of his work, although the exhibitions in Edinburgh, Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads (2005) and Norwich, Francis Bacon…

  • Millais

    Tate Britain, London 26 September 2007-13 January 2008 The autumn grand exhibition at Tate Britain is on the work of John Everett Millais (1829-1896), promoted as the greatest painter of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Millais is most notable to Pre-Raphaelite enthusiasts…

  • Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition

    Gilbert and George has arrived at Tate Modern (and not at Tate Britain, at their own insistence). They claim that they are, for the period of this exhibition only, a part of the art ‘establishment’: after which the duet will…

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…

  • Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination

    Tate Britain, London 15 February-1 May 2006 What fascinates us in an artwork? One answer to this question is content that conveys a sense of harmony and rightness: summer landscapes bathed in sunshine; human beauty, strength and agility; stories that…

  • Bridget Riley at Tate Britain

    Tate Britain, 26 June-28 September 2003

  • Monuments for destruction

    Image and Idol: Medieval Sculpture Tate Britain, to 3 March 2002