Observingart: Tate Modern

ew Tate Modern Opening Weekend

17–19 June, 10:00–22:00

Enjoy  Tate Time Machine

Observingart: exhibitions

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection 

At Tate Modern, opening on 10 November 2016

Man Ray Glass Tears (Les Larmes) 1932 

Collection Elton John 
© Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, 
London 2016

Bouchra Khalili
The Opposite of Voice-Over
2 apr – 19 jun 2016

Speeches-Chapter 1: Mother Tongue, From The Speeches Series (2012-2013), video trilogy. 
Digital Film, HD video, 4/3. 23'. 2012. 
Video still. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Polaris, Paris.

Read more at Färgfabriken

Observingart: Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern

Francesca Woodman
Eel Series, Roma, May 1977 - August 1978 1977-8
Black and white silver gelatin print on paper
image: 219 x 218 mm

With over 50 seminal photographers on display, Performing for the Camera explores the relationship between photography and performance – from the stars of the Victorian stage to the art happenings of the 1960s, and today’s trend for selfies.

Performing for the Camera 

Observingarts: Frank Auerbach at Tate

Frank Auerbach Reclining Head of Julia 1997, The Lewis Collection
© Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art, 

Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

British painter Frank Auerbach has made some of the most resonant and inventive paintings of recent times. The depth, text and sense of space in a painting by Auerbach makes standing in front of one a unique and unforgettable experience.  Read more at Tate

Observingarts: Tate 2016

Georgia O’Keeffe

Abstraction White Rose ,1927, Oil on canvas

36 x 30 (91.4 x 76.2)

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation and Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation 

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Tate  2016 exhibition programme will features major exhibitions devoted to some of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century: Francis Bacon at Tate Liverpool, Georgia O’Keeffe and Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern, and Paul Nash at Tate Britain. Paul Gauguin’s voyage to Tahiti will be the subject of work by two contemporary artists in an exhibition at Tate St Ives. 

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Observingarts: Who is Frank Auerbach?

Head of J.Y.M II 1984-85

Private collection

© Frank Auerbach

"What I am trying to make is an image that has never been seen before…that stalks into the world like a new monster." More at Tate Blog

Observingarts: last chance to take a look at Jackson Pollock, "Blind spots"

Jackson Pollock, 

Yellow Islands 1952 

© The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, 

NY and DACS, London 2015.

Last change to see, echibiton ending 18th. of October. 

See program and details at Tate

Observingarts: Tate announce the new Tate Modern

Tate announce the new Tate Modern, set to open on Friday 17 June 2016. 

When Tate Modern opened in 2000, it transformed Britain’s relationship with modern and contemporary art. Now a second transformation is underway. 

The new Tate Modern will challenge the traditional story of modern art and offer a fresh perspective on artists working around the world in a re-hang of the whole building. It will also be a communal place where people can meet to share, debate and create. 

Observingarts: Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World at Tate ends 25th of October

Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World

24 June – 25 October 2015

Major retrospective exhibition. Charting Hepworth’s progress from her earliest surviving carvings to the large-scale bronzes of the 1960s. Among the highlights are four large sculptures in sumptuous African hardwood – the high point of her post-war carving career – reunited in one room. More at Tate.

Barbara Hepworth in the Palais de la Danse studio, St Ives, 

at work on the wood carving Hollow Form with White Interior 1963
Photograph: Val Wilmer, © Bowness

For a walk along British sculptures,  take a look at:  

Sotheby's

Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015

14 SEPTEMBER 2015 - 25 OCTOBER 2015 | DERBYSHIRE, UK