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Tate Modern
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Reviews
Memory Foam (Fischli & Weiss, Flowers & Questions, A Retrospective [6 May 2013]
Last year David Weiss, of the Swiss duo Fischli/Weiss, passed away. I was taken aback, feeling we had lost a great artist and so began searching through notes on exhibitions of theirs I had visited. I found, amongst others, notes and Read on…
Tate Modern, London
11 October 2006 - 14 January 2007
Reviewed by: Ben Lloyd »
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective [2 March 2013]
![Roy Lichtenstein, 'Oh, Jeff... I Love You, Too... But...', Poster [Oil & Magna on Canvas], 2013 [1964]. Photo: JPL. Courtesy: Tate Modern - [Collection Simonyi]. This is a promotional banner for the retrospective as you cannot take photos in the exhibit - but the £25 paperback produced for the show is rather good.](/an_images/3080649-1.jpg)
Lichtenstein was one of the many appropriators of the 60's, appropriation basically was Pop Art. Whether it was taken out of the skip by Rauschenberg, pilfered from the commercial art in the supermarket aisle by Warhol or stripped Read on…
Tate Modern, London
21 February - 27 May 2013
Reviewed by: Jamie Limond »
Light Music. Lis Rhodes [9 November 2012]
I always feel it is somehow churlish to enter Tate Modern by any other way than the big slope. I hope to recreate the initial thrill of first encountering the space of the Turbine Hall. Now the floor traces the ghostly scar of Doris Salcedo’s Read on…
Tate Modern Tanks, London
18 July 2012 - 20 January 2013
Reviewed by: Eleanor MacFarlane »
The Tanks [9 September 2012]
It's only after your commute through the hustling bustling industrial city of London, and on entering the converted factory space that is the Tate Modern that you suddenly become in awe of it all. The Turbine Hall has the same humbling, Read on…
Tate Modern, London
18 July - 28 October 2012
Reviewed by: Milly Phillips »
Damien Hirst [19 August 2012]
As its main attraction throughout the London 2012 games, the Tate Modern chooses the subject of its blockbuster exhibition to be a retrospective of the YBA Damien Hirst. This ever-controversial artist has the critics asking; was this the right Read on…
Tate Modern, London
4 April - 9 September 2012
Reviewed by: Milly Phillips »
Her Noise : feminisms and the sonic [18 May 2012]
We might celebrate, in a few decades from now, the event that ushered in the revolutionary era of the Feminine Sonic Sensibility. Her Noise exhibition at the South London Gallery (2005) dared the ‘dangerous combination’ of Read on…
Tate Modern, London
3 - 5 May 2012
Reviewed by: Viviane Blanchard »
Yayoi Kusama [17 May 2012]
If you are lucky enough to be able to position yourself within Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Wall – Filled with the Brilliance of Life installation where you can neither see reflections of yourself or other visitors and then lose yourself Read on…
Tate Modern, London
9 February - 5 June 2012
Reviewed by: Stephanie Dubois »
Tacita Dean: Film [28 February 2012]
Tacita Dean's Film is the current Unilever installation in Tate Modern's Turbine hall. I'm not usually one for video art, I often find it hit or miss but this one was a a hit for me. It inhabits the space with an almost monolitic quality, making me Read on…
Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London
11 October 2011 - 11 March 2012
Reviewed by: Gemma Cumming »
Tacita Dean [19 December 2011]
Tacita Dean is well known for producing luscious films that capture atmospheric places, thick with the ghosts of narrative. Her richly hued imagery the deeply chromed aesthetic made possible is a product of Dean’s fidelity to the medium of Read on…
Tate Modern, London
11 October 2011 - 11 March 2012
Reviewed by: Rosemary Shirley »
Film [28 October 2011]
(If you would like to read the review of the exhibition only, please skip the first 3 paragraphs, which help to situate the author within this review) I am always cautious when writing a review of what I think of as the big Read on…
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London
11 October 2011 - 11 March 2012
Reviewed by: Maru Rojas Cuahonte »
Gerhard Richter: Panorama [16 October 2011]
The exhibition that is a blur between painting and sculpture, figurative and abstract is more importantly a stimulating and thought-provoking retrospective to one of the world's top living artists and greatest living painter. This year, Tate Modern Read on…
Tate Modern, London
6 October 2011 - 8 January 2012
Reviewed by: Adam Kelly »
Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape [11 August 2011]
When audiences visit Tate Modern's current retrospective, they should feel reminded of such past exhibitions such as Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World in 2010, Futurism and Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Read on…
Tate Modern, London
14 April - 11 September 2011
Reviewed by: Adam Kelly »
Sunflower Seeds [21 April 2011]
The Turbine Hall at Tate Modern was built to house turbines. The dimensions matched this requirement. As an exhibition space, the Turbine Hall steers artists towards the theatrical. A big space sets up the expectation of big impact. The Read on…
Tate Modern, London
12 October 2010 - 2 May 2011
Reviewed by: Lawrence Bradby »
Francis Alys: A Story of Deception [11 November 2010]
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception opens with a 16mm film of the same name, depicting a road gradually becoming solid and visible from the shimmering liquidity of a mirage. The mirage disappears at the same rate at which the camera advances, Read on…
Tate Modern, London
15 June - 5 September 2010
Reviewed by: Holly Slingsby »
Altermodern, [31 March 2010]
I had particularly tired legs when attending Altermodern, the Tate Triennial, at Tate Britain, so on entering the first room I instantly became seduced by the large communal bean bag that was before Spartacus Chetwynd’s TV wall, Read on…
The Tate Triennial, London
3 February - 1 April 2009
Reviewed by: Clare Harris »
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism [17 May 2009]
The working populous uniting in outrage at the greed of the ruling few, who are exploiting the system to maximise their own gain. Does this all sound a bit familiar? Tate Modern’s show Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism Read on…
Tate Modern, London
12 February - 17 May 2009
Reviewed by: Jenny King »
Cildo Meireles 'Volatile' [26 February 2009]
Cildo MeirelesVolitile”For me the art object must be, despite everything else, instantly seductive.”There is nothing more compelling than physically walking into a piece and conversing with it. Adrenalin surging inside as you weigh up Read on…
Tate Modern, London
14 October 2008 - 11 January 2009
Reviewed by: Sam Minton »
Cildo Meireles - 'Eureka/Blindhotland' and 'Volatile' [12 November 2008]
For a Brazilian artist growing up in a time of oppression and social turmoil following a military coup of 1964, Cildo Meireles rejected the notion of an intellectually telling art object of Neo-concretism, in search of a more sensual, participant Read on…
Tate Modern, London
14 October 2008 - 11 January 2009
Reviewed by: James Huyton »
TH:2058 [15 October 2008]
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is the latest artist to frolic in the largest playground in contemporary art, the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.TH:2058 explores distopia and invites us to absorb our rotten future at leisure. Lie down, read one Read on…
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
14 October 2008 - 13 April 2009
Reviewed by: Daniel Booth »
Juan Munoz: a Retrospective [28 February 2008]
Playing with scale, using the minute and the immensely big to experiment with the possibility of perceiving the world in a different way. "You have to come, to look, to smile and despair." The words of Juan Muñoz, to whom Tate Read on…
Tate Modern, London
24 January - 27 April 2008
Reviewed by: federica bueti »
TAKE A DEEP BREATH SYMPOSIUM [29 November 2007]
The continuous recurrence of the theme of air reveals a perpetual interest with concepts of the immaterial and the invisible. The Take a Deep Breath symposium was held at Tate Modern during 15-17 November in order to explore air, the nothing and Read on…
TATE MODERN, LONDON
15-17 November 2007
Reviewed by: Eva Pryce »
Doris and Louise [27 November 2007]
Two Artists with very different concerns and approaches to art are currently presented at Tate Modern. The art of Louise Bourgeois is highly subjective and emerges from a life–long struggle originating from her childhood Read on…
Tate Modern, London
10 October 2007 - 20 January 2008
Reviewed by: Andrea Kim Valdez »
Louise Bourgeois [20 November 2007]
Louise Bourgeois A retrospectiveWhen you leave the Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Tate Modern in London you are left feeling alone, confused and slightly disturbed. You seem to have questions which cannot be named nor Read on…
Tate Modern London, London
10 October 2007 - 20 January 2008
Reviewed by: Nottingham Trent University »
Shibboleth [18 November 2007]
The intriguing thing about Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the question of why it doesn’t work. That is, why an artist experienced in producing arresting installations in large architectural spaces has failed to turn an exciting idea into Read on…
Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London
9 October 2007 - 6 April 2008
Reviewed by: Tom Robinson »
Martha Rosler: Talking Art [10 October 2007]
Starting at the end of the talk; ‘the questions and discussion section’ created a strange atmosphere that rippled through the past two hours and shifted all that had been discussed. The paraphrased question: “An Read on…
Tate Modern, London
29 September 2007
Reviewed by: Alexandria Clark »
Carsten Höller's Test Site [18 February 2007]
Carsten Höller's Test Site, the seventh commission in Tate Modern's Unilever Series, links floors five, four, three and one with the Turbine Hall via coiling metal slides. There are two viewpoints for the work, one as participant, and Read on…
Tate Modern - Turbine Hall
10 October 2006 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Hugh Dichmont »
Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park [25 January 2007]
What is the artist's role in society today? To take a stance anywhere outside of current sociological concerns and make an objective commentary from the insular, safe haven of the contemporary art world is ostensibly no longer enough. Artistic Read on…
Tate Modern
7 July 2006 to 12 December 2006
Reviewed by: Aaron Juneau »
Fischli and Weiss Flowers and Questions A Retrospective (Room 3: Suddenly This Overview) [28 November 2006]
Fischli and Weiss are like the Batman and Robin of the art world, fighting the conventions of art to open our eyes and make us see the world in a new light. Through a variety of media they create very different artworks, photographic imagery, Read on…
Tate Modern
10 October 2006 to 1 January 2007
Reviewed by: Naomi Terry »
Destricted: Art and Sex [26 October 2006]
Tickets for ‘Destricted: Art and Sex’ were sold out to an eager over 18’s audience weeks ago. Its popularity was no doubt due to the warnings of ‘real sex’ and ‘highly explicit’ pornographic content. The Read on…
Tate modern
9 September 2005 to 9 September 2006
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham »
Rachel Whiteread’s ‘Embankment’ [27 December 2005]
"…..another example of meritless gigantism …..". Brian Sewell, London Evening Standard, 10 October 2005 Predictably, the poisoned pens were put to paper once again. If art reviewers aren't capable of Read on…
Tate Modern, London
11 November 2005 to 4 April 2006
Reviewed by: Ann Isik »
Rachel Whiteread ‘Embankment’ [21 December 2005]
Rachel Whiteread has described her artistic motivation as being to communicate through the language of sculpture, her vocabulary becoming more sophisticated as her work evolves. Whiteread tends to cast the space around or within domestic objects, Read on…
Tate Modern
10 October 2005 to 4 April 2006
Reviewed by: Dr Helen Pheby »
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