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Tate Enterprises to dismiss more than 300 employees due to “loss of revenue” in era of COVID-19
Protests marked the July 27th reopening of Tate Enterprises museums after they had been shuttered since March 17th, when the UK enforced sweeping lockdown measures in response to the pandemic. […]
Art World Roundup: updates on Stonehenge, the Turner Prize, Christie’s auction of Igbo statues, a Parisian Banksy, and how the new Louvre experience
This week’s Art World Roundup offers updates. Recipients of the 2020 edition of an alternative Turner Prize have been announced, a recovered Banksy stolen from Paris, and the sale of […]
Tate Britain forgoes 2020 Turner Prize to support 10 artists with £10k bursaries
Tate Britain announced today that the 2020 edition of the Turner Prize has been called off, like so many things this year, due to COVID-19. Though the Prize, which offers […]
Rare two-sided painting by Aubrey Beardsley on display in Tate Britain exhibition
Aubrey Beardsley is best-known for his black and white, often erotic, illustrations that shocked the masses in the late 1800s. An upcoming exhibition of his works will include his only […]
‘Aubrey Beardsley’
A draughtsman and an illustrator whose life and career were cut short, Aubrey Beardsley was nothing short of shocking to his late-Victorian counterparts. His black and white prints were provocative […]
Steve McQueen’s Year 3 project takes over Tate and tube
Standing on the Northern Line southbound platform at Mornington Crescent early in the morning, you’re greeted with a familiar sight. Amongst the mundane advertisements, you’ll find a class photo much […]
’William Blake’ at Tate Britain is unique, wonderful, sometimes odd, and a must see
Following William Blake’s rather unsuccessful exhibition in 1809, the Examiner reported his works to be ‘[a] farrago of nonsense, unintelligibleness, and egregious vanity, the wild effusions of a distempered brain.’ […]
