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Monsters, menopause and bold women – what to see, read and visit this week

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has long served as a parable – a warning against the hubris of playing God, the dangers of motherless creation, reckless parenthood and unchecked scientific ambition. It’s a story that continues to resonate, revealing how little human ego and error have changed over time.

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Lee Miller retrospective confirms her as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century

Following on from the success of Kate Winslet’s biopic Lee, released last year, Lee Miller has never been more in vogue. Unsurprisingly perhaps, tickets for the new Lee Miller retrospective at Tate Britain sold out during its first weekend.

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From Vogue model to pioneering photographer, Lee Miller’s fearless photos take over Tate Britain

Tate Britain’s Lee Miller retrospective is an education for all photographers

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Tate Britain to get 'Mediterranean' gardens and outdoor classroom in major redesign

Designers behind the plans said the new layout will offer visitors ‘a sequence of experiences’

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The pre-Raphaelite muse who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John…

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Why Lee Miller’s work is so important in today’s climate

Lee Miller's work continues to be relevant today thanks to its humanity and tenderness, Tate Britain assistant curator Saskia Flower said as the most extensive retrospective of the trailblazing photographer opened at the iconic London gallery this week.

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Tate Britain’s Lee Miller exhibition is hardly ‘overdue’

Letters: The American war and art photographer has been well represented in shows over the past two decades, writes Richard Calvocoressi

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Inside the most extensive Lee Miller retrospective yet

The most extensive retrospective of the trailblazing photographer Lee Miller has just opened at one of London’s most iconic galleries.

The Independent UK

Lee Miller at Tate Britain review: These images will be seared onto your retina

4/5 The largest retrospective of the artist’s work staged in the UK charts her journey from Vogue cover girl to war correspondent

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The Independent announced as first fully-digital exclusive media partner of Tate Britain for Lee Miller retrospective

Partnership will see Independent produce original content on Tate Britain’s exhibition of esteemed photographer’s life and work

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Tate Britain to transform entrance with new gardens and classroom

Plans to transform the gallery’s riverside entance have been submitted to Westminster Council

Evening Standard

2-for-1 ticket offer for the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain

Exhibition is the most extensive retrospective of Miller’s photography yet

The Independent UK

Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate?

The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art

The Guardian - UK

Space, stadiums, poses and prizes: the best art and architecture of autumn 2025

The season’s standouts include mighty Picassos, mesmerising mushrooms, the visions of Kerry James Marshall, the combat photography of Lee Miller – and a return trip to space

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Reframing the debate over Tate attendances and exhibitions

Letters: Tate director, Maria Balshaw, responds to reports of a decline in visitor numbers. Catherine Bliss is unimpressed by recent offerings at the galleries

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Tate launches endowment fund to ensure galleries can ‘thrive’ in future

There are four Tate galleries in the UK and they are funded through different revenue streams, including a foundation of Government funding.

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Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain: an immersive and intelligent double bill

4/5 Two queer British artist’s have their life’s work on display at the Tate Britain — here’s why you should visit

The Guardian - UK

Edward Burra / Ithell Colquhoun review – sex, jazz, war and the occult, all confusingly jumbled

Colquhoun’s surrealism and Burra’s pro-fascist war paintings and Hogarthian scenes of Harlem nightlife are all brilliant. But they have nothing in common – so why handcuff them together?

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Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown

He called art ‘fart’ and hated talking about his work, but a rare retrospective offers the chance to celebrate the radical visions of the 20th-century British painter

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UK’s largest Lee Miller retrospective to be held at Tate Britain

Exhibition will showcase her entire career, from French surrealism to fashion and war photography

Evening Standard

Who is shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025? Check out the four artists

A guide to the artists nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize, with the exhibition taking place in Bradford this year...

Evening Standard

Ed Atkins at Tate Britain review: welcome to a video horror show, with laughs

5/5 Ed Atkins is best known for his video art but as this exhibition shows he is an artist seeking to say the unsayable with heavy - but also very funny - work

The Guardian - UK

Ed Atkins review – a portrait of the artist in turmoil

From digital avatars in limbo or distress to a poignant reliving of his father’s last days, the artist seeks to ‘reimagine life’s chaos’

The Guardian - UK

Ed Atkins review – a harrowing medley of spiders, sinkholes and death

Using CGI-avatars, racks of opera costumes and a film starring Toby Jones, the artist explores the proximity of his own mortality – and ours

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‘My brain reaches for morbidity’: inside the unsettling world (and 700 Post-it notes) of artist Ed Atkins

He was a digital art pioneer, making himself an avatar in disturbing films. Now Ed Atkins has a new medium: the pandemic Post-it note. Ahead of a major Tate show, we meet the shapeshifting artist

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