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OPINION - The sorry decline of the Tate offers a brutal lesson to London's galleries

The Tate galleries have lost 2.2 million visitors in the past five years. That’s a drop of more than a fifth since pre-pandemic times. Tate has been in discussions with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport about its financial position, with trustees acknowledging “uncertainty” over its ability to remain…

Evening Standard

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

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

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Tate director urges British art collectors to be more philanthropic as US tycoon gifts masterpiece

Gallery unveiled new multi-million pound painting donated by Miami businessman

The Independent UK

Tate Britain to return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector’s heirs

Looted by the Nazis during World War II and lost for decades, a 17th-century masterpiece is finally returning to its rightful heirs.

Euronews

Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family

Samuel Hartveld’s great-grandchildren to welcome back stolen 17th-century painting that was sold to Tate Britain

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UK Gallery To Return Nazi-looted Painting To Heirs Of Jewish Collector

The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on Saturday.

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17th-century painting looted by Nazis to be returned by Tate Britain

Hartveld, a Belgian art collector, left the painting behind when he and his wife fled Antwerp

The Independent UK

Peter Sedgley obituary

Op artist and friend of Bridget Riley with whom he founded Space artist studios in London

The Guardian - UK

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

Tate cuts 7% of workforce in effort to reduce funding deficit from pandemic

Arts institution says loss of 40 roles achieved through voluntary departures and recruitment freezes

The Guardian - UK

Art, Leigh Bowery and the weaponisation of embarrassment

Open up and let the shame in… It will set you free

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

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‘It’s not a bubble’: Indigenous art comes to London after post-Venice backlash

Curators and artists say this is a time of overdue recognition but others are cautious about the longevity of the moment

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‘He wanted to have a wing of the Tate named after him’: remembering the groundbreaking art of Donald Rodney

A new show celebrates the pioneering, polemical artist who inspired a generation of Black British creatives – and whose works are as relevant today as they’ve ever been

The Independent UK

Grenfell exhibition by Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen promises tragedy will ‘never be forgotten’

Fire claimed 72 lives including the deaths of 18 children

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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

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Evening Standard

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

Reason

State 'Bias Response Hotlines' Encourage People To Snitch on Their Neighbors for 'Hate Speech'

By the end of 2025, as many as 100 million Americans could live in a state where they can be reported for protected expression.

The Guardian - UK

‘A standout figure’: UK to mark JMW Turner’s 250th birthday with year of events

Museums and galleries announce festival of events and exhibitions to celebrate influential British artist

The Independent UK

Exhibitions and BBC film will celebrate legacy of Turner on 250th anniversary

JMW Turner has been called ‘one of this country’s greatest artists’.

Wallpaper

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 Independent UK

Hundreds of theatres and museums face closure as crisis in sectors laid bare

Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure

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