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OPINION - It is so wrong to describe the organisation I chair as a bastion of Philistines

London is a global cultural powerhouse and it must stay that way. It is home to some of the world’s most renowned theatres, galleries, museums and music venues and it has been a crucible for art and culture throughout the ages. When I was director of Tate, I sought to…

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Ilya Kabakov obituary

Artist whose installations drew on the everyday aesthetics of his first 50 years in the Soviet Union

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‘It’s Shakespeare – as important as any modern piece of work’: Derek Jarman’s Blue comes to the stage

Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero

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New Tate Modern Director announced as Karin Hindsbo, Director of the National Museum in Oslo

Hindsbo oversaw a major consolidation of five national organisations in Norway, so knows a thing or two about big venues

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‘Beyond excited’: Head of Norway’s National Museum named new Tate Modern director

Karin Hindsbo vows to ‘continue the magnificent work being done’ at the landmark London venue as she prepares to replace Frances Morris in September

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Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life at Tate Modern review - fascinating and ambitious

You can feel the tectonic plates of art history shifting under your feet

Evening Standard

Ouija board wonder: how Hilma af Klint’s occult dabblings made her an outcast

She was a Swedish mystic who believed angels guided her work. Why has this overlooked pioneer now been paired with Piet Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad’s religion? The answer lies in the spirit world

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Britain's dirtiest radio put on display outside Tate Modern - and passes for art

The Makita DAB radio won a competition to find Britain's dirtiest radio - but Londoners got to see it in a different light

Daily Mirror

Picasso 50 years on: Greatest artist of the 20th century, or cancel-worthy misogynist?

Half a century since Picasso’s death, does the great artist’s misogyny now endanger his legacy? Alastair Smart explores why this is no straightforward set of anniversary celebrations

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Recycling sculptor chosen for next Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

An African artist who recycles old bottle tops to make large shimmering sculptures has been chosen to take on the monumental Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

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Best free half-term activities in the UK for families

Family fun doesn’t have to break the bank

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Un-macho abstraction, a Venice Lion and questions of queerness – the week in art

The female heroes of abstract expressionism, Sonia Boyce in Margate and an unsettling ruling at Tate Modern – all in your weekly dispatch

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Prying eyes: Neighbors win privacy feud with UK Tate gallery

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern art gallery breached the privacy of residents of luxury apartments next door

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Flat owners win battle to stop Tate Modern visitors peering into their homes

Owners in the Neo Bankside development on the capital’s South Bank took legal action against the gallery

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Supreme Court to rule on Tate Modern flats privacy battle

The owners of four flats in the Neo Bankside development on London’s South Bank took legal action against the gallery’s board of trustees.

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Nearly half of parents say their fondest childhood memories include school trips

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Artist asks British Museum to return Assyrian treasure to Iraq in swap

Sculptor Michael Rakowitz says he will give his fourth-plinth bull to Tate Modern if Iraq can share custody

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Tate Modern: Boy thrown from balcony ‘practicising gentle judo and making progress with breathing and swallowing’

‘He’s able to blow out candles again’, says his family, three-and-a-half years on from the horrific attack

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Tate Modern director on CBE: Real honour is the extraordinary place I work in

She is the fourth director of the London art gallery and the first to be on the New Year’s Honours List, according to Tate Modern.

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The best art and architecture of 2022

From brutiful Birmingham to Tracey Emin’s Margate rebirth, from a mind-boggling array of Cézannes to an immaculate seaside skatepark, our critics rank the year’s highlights

Daily Mirror

Free family days out near you this Christmas from The Gruffalo to little donkeys

Keeping the kids entertained can be a costly challenge at the best of times, never mind when inflation is raging and there are presents to pay for - but we've rounded up festive free family events

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72 Upper Ground: the latest development selling the Thames down the river

The riverside was once lauded as ‘London’s greatest opportunity’. But a lack of strategy has left it crowded with unsightly towers that put developers before communities

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‘They said I’m a badass and Hollywood needs me’: how Florence’s Machine took Tinseltown

As the other half of Florence + the Machine, Isabella Summers has worked with the likes of Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson. Now the film world can’t get enough of the musical sensation

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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope review – a wonder weaver

The radical, grand-scale textile sculptures of the late Polish artist are a sensory delight in this sensitively curated show

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You see aspects of his paintings wherever you look: on Cézanne’s trail in Aix-en-Provence, France

It’s easy to see why the chic town in the south of France made such an impression on the famous artist

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