tate modern Archives

Uzo Egonu, Stateless People an artist with beret, 1981

Whither Nigerian Modernism?

09/07/2025

Tate Modern to host massive exhibition of Nigerian Modernism...

Steve McQueen Year 3 at Tate Britain © Steve McQueen. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo © Tate_main

Money, Fame and the Future: Tate Modern’s 25th

26/06/2025

£43 million secured to launch Tate's endowment fund, but why? ...

Tate Modern screens Shirin Neshat’s 1999 film ‘Soliloquy’

06/01/2021

A rarely seen video work by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is revived from the Tate's collection, and will be free to view (when the museum reopens) until the beginning of February...

Pioneering Kinetic Artist Takis Has Died at 93

09/08/2019

Greece’s culture minister Lina Mendoni said: “For more than 70 years, Takis was a pioneer, an artist whose childish curiosity of the forces of the universe never ended.”...

Kara Walker To Take Over Turbine Hall This Autumn

12/03/2019

The African-American artist, known for examining issues around race relations in the US, will create the next Hyundai Commission....

Tate Outsourcing Artist Biographies to Wikipedia

11/09/2018

A spokeswoman states the gallery does “not have the resources to create biographies for every individual” in its collection, or to update biographies for living artists....