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Giant spider sculpture reinstalled at the Tate Modern

A giant spider sculpture has been reinstalled in the Tate Modern as part of the gallery’s 25th anniversary.

The Independent UK

UK Aids Memorial Quilt to go on display at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

Quilt, made in 1980s to raise awareness, to be shown as US cuts raise fears of Aids resurgence in some countries

The Guardian - UK

Tate Modern given Joan Mitchell work in biggest donation since 1969

Miami billionaire couple part with triptych by late abstract expressionist that previously hung in their bedroom

The Guardian - UK

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Miami philanthropists donate an American masterpiece to Britain's Tate Modern

Britain’s Tate Modern art museum has unveiled one of the most significant gifts it has received in years

The Independent UK

Visitor numbers plunge at London art museums as Tate galleries lose 2.7 million in five years

Visitor numbers at Tate galleries have plunged by over 30 per cent since 2019

Evening Standard

Tate museums to cut 7% of workforce amid financial challenges

Tate has announced that it is cutting 7% of its workforce, as the British arts institution grapples with a post-pandemic financial deficit. The move echoes major budget cuts for many cultural institutions globally, including major European museums.

Euronews

The Guardian view on 1980s counterculture: back to the future

Editorial: The taboo-breaking stunts of Leigh Bowery and the Face magazine were ahead of their time

The Guardian - UK

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Leigh Bowery! review – a colossal display of shapeshifting outrageousness and originality

The late Australian performance artist’s huge retrospective is packed with outlandish costumes, stylish photographs, emotive writing and evocative video footage, but what is most striking is his singular artistic vision

The Guardian - UK

Leigh Bowery! at Tate Modern: Sprays inspiration over viewers like an enema

4/5 This well-earned retrospective relishes the fabulousness and revulsion of a nightlife icon

Evening Standard

Leigh Bowery! review – the sex, scandal and sprayed enemas of the ultimate exhibitionist

This exhaustive account of the iconic diva and dandy covers all the fashion, drugs, clubs and self-obsession of a life that was short, sleazy and sensational

The Guardian - UK

Fashion disruptors, phoney Picassos and St Paul’s goes psychedelic – the week in art

Leigh Bowery and The Face magazine get their eclectic retrospectives while St Paul’s Cathedral becomes an immersive artwork – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Tate Liverpool ‘flings open windows’ to first phase of £30m revamp

Gallery, whose success its director says others have learned from, is now expected to reopen in spring 2027

The Guardian - UK

‘A living, breathing work of art’: Leigh Bowery by those who knew him best

The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, family and friends talk about Bowery’s larger-than-life legacy

The Guardian - UK

How the capital's art world went broke on woke

Lectures on social issues instead of just amazing art: no wonder London’s major galleries are in crisis, says JJ Charlesworth

Evening Standard

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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Tate Modern’s cultural shapeshifting takes the art prize

We sing the praises of Tate Modern for celebrating the artists that are drawn to other worlds

The Guardian - UK

‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor

The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the Turbine Hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remain

The Guardian - UK

From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

The Guardian - UK

Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

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The Conversation

Daniel Craig’s turn as queer writer and an ‘unfilmable’ book brought to life – what you should watch, read and see this week

William S. Burroughs was a gay drug addict. A knot of contradictions, he was also deeply homophobic, sexist, racist and a gun-loving conservative, a passion that would eventually lead to him to be convicted of manslaughter. Needless to say, his life was as wild as his fiction – just watch…

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Looking forward to Tate Modern’s 25th anniversary party

From 9-12 May 2025, Tate Modern, one of London’s most adored art museums, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a lively weekend of festivities

Wallpaper

Discover psychedelic landscapes and mind-bending art at London’s Tate Modern

'Electric Dreams' at the Tate encompasses the period from the 1950s to the beginning of the internet era

Evening Standard

Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern review: thrillingly experimental

4/5 This fusion of art and early technology is all thoroughly engaging, so take your time

The Guardian - UK

Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art

Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York

The Guardian - US

Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino is suturing the past to the present

Centering Black feminism and anti-racism, Paulino’s work is being celebrated from New York’s High Line to the Tate Modern

Evening Standard

From Louis Partridge's sex scenes to Cate Blanchett's script notes: inside the BFI London Film Festival parties

All the pictures and gossip from London’s biggest week in film

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