In Brief
Tate Will No Longer Accept Donations from the Sackler Family, Setting New Precedent
The major decision comes just days after London's National Portrait Gallery decided to not accept a $1.3 million donation from the Sackler Trust.
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Tate Will Give Five Women Major Solo Exhibitions in the Next Two Years
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Paula Rego, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Maria Bartuszová, and Haegue Yang will take center stage at the museum in 2020 and 2021.
In Brief
Tate Acquires Portrait by One of Europe's First Female Professional Painters
When a rare portrait by one of Britain's first professional female artists went up for sale two years ago, auctioneers assumed it was the work of a man.
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Tate Uses AI to Match Old British Art to New Photojournalism
Art history repeats itself in contemporary photojournalism.
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Liberate Tate Activists Look Back on Six Years of Fighting BP Sponsorship
Last month, BP announced that it will end its 26-year-long sponsorship of Tate.
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BP Will Cease Controversial Tate Sponsorship
Energy giant BP will cease its sponsorship of Tate in 2017.
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I Visited the Tate (in Minecraft)
The widely beloved open world video game of Minecraft will now offer a new activity for its players to explore: interactive artworks presented by the Tate, the third installment of which was just released last week.
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Performers Shower Tate Britain with Fake Pounds Over Oil Money Ties
LONDON — It’s 10am on the last Saturday of January, and Tate Britain is predictably sleepy. The museum has just opened its doors for the day, and a modest coterie of visitors treads lightly to preserve the morning hush.
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Tate Reveals Surprisingly Low Sum of BP Sponsorship Deal [UPDATED]
After years of legal wrangling, the Tate museums group has finally disclosed the details of its sponsorship agreement with oil company BP.
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Tate Digitizes 52,000 Artifacts from the Lives of British Artists
Around 52,000 letters, sketchbooks, photographs, and other ephemera of 20th-century British artists will be accessible online by next summer. The first 6,000 items were revealed this month as part of the Tate Archive.
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Tate Doesn't Want to Disclose Details of BP Sponsorship
The Tate yesterday filed an appeal to a court order that would have required the museum to release internal documents relating to its controversial sponsorship deal with British Petroleum (BP), Hyperallergic has learned.
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Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits
Few people may know the names of Shunk-Kender, but the pair of photographers behind that hyphenated moniker have captured many of the most famous images of post-war modern and contemporary art in Paris and New York and together they documented many ephemeral events that would've been lost to history