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Tate Modern closes sea of seeds to public amid health fears over dust

15.10.10
EXCLUSIVE: Tate Modern has been forced to close the giant Turbine Hall sunflower seeds commission to public access because the surge of interest has created dangerous levels of dust... more

The light fantastic is now the talk of the town

20.09.10
Digitally-controlled lighting is set to be a highlight of this week’s London Design Festival, says Dominic Lutyens... more

Bird’s Nest artist set for Tate grandstand

05.03.10
Chinese artist who collaborated on the Bird’s Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics is to be the next to create a work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall... more

Visitor injured on first day of Tate 'black hole' exhibit

14.10.09
Visitor was injured at Tate Modern's new pitch-black art installation in the Turbine Hall - when he walked into a wall he could not see... more

Is Miuccia Prada the next Peggy Guggenheim?

14.08.09
Not content with a multimillion-pound luxury empire and the adulation of the fashion cognoscenti, Miuccia Prada has reinvented herself as an art patron... more

BANK HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Adult playground launched at Tate Modern

22.05.09
Tate Modern recreates its 1971 installation, which shut after four days becausevisitors “went bloody mad” and began “jumping and screaming” around the exhibit... more

Kind of adventure at The Double Club

30.03.09
The Double Club is a new restaurant that admirably gives 50 per cent of its profits to abused women in the Congo.... more

Hot pubs for cool kids in London

06.02.09
Want to know where Jaime Winstone sups on Corona and Daisy Lowe gets a round in? Here's where to hang out.... more

New age of the 'ism' in Altermodern

06.02.09
Super-curator Nicolas Bourriaud has chosen some fascinating work for Altermodern, his survey of contemporary art — it's his theory that is flawed.... more

Congo's rumble in our urban jungle

30.01.09
Off to Africa at The Double; the free club where artsy meets afrobeat.... more

Gordon Masiala sings in soaring falsetto

19.01.09
Gordon Masiala is one of London's most prominent sapeurs, a member of the Congolese cult that elevates high fashion to quasi-religious status.... more

Best restaurants-cum-galleries in London

14.01.09
Check out the new breed of London restaurants with proprietors equally as passionate about paintings and sculpture as they are about food.... more

Art of food at The Double Club

10.12.08
The Double Club is a restaurant/installation designed to live for six months, investigating the meeting of art, food and politics.... more

New art installation - a nightclub

18.11.08
The artist whose twisting slides delighted millions at Tate Modern, has come up with a new "art experience" - a nightclub... more

Tricks with Triffids at Tate

14.10.08
There's something missing from Gonzalez-Forster minimalist blue and yellow bunk beds at Tate Modern — comfy mattresses. ... more

Take shelter at the Tate ... but beware of the massive spider

13.10.08
London is under attack and Tate Modern is the place to turn for safety... more

Yoko Ono to shed light on her art at London fair

22.09.08
Yoko Ono is giving the keynote lecture at this year's Frieze Art Fair... more

Seismic cracks in the art world

15.11.07
Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth will be remembered as one of the most important works of the first decade of the 21st century, but not for reasons the art world will be proud of.... more

Artist takes a crack at Tate Modern

08.10.07
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has sent what looks like a bolt of lightning more than 500 feet across the floor of the Turbine Hall.... more

Art to interact with

29.08.07
First it was Jeff Koons filling the Gagosian Gallery with toys and now Carsten Holler provides the cute factor with a pink baby hippo.... more

A head in the clouds in the chamber of secrets

14.05.07
An art show where visitors are told to get lost is set to be the hit of the summer. The giant glass chamber of fog at the Hayward Gallery is predicted to attract huge public interest.... more

From slides to a carousel

27.03.07
Following Carsten Holler's popular slides, Brazilian artist Marepe is to show a carousel at Tate Modern.... more

Woman sues Tate Modern over slide injury

26.02.07
The Tate Modern faces a legal battle after a visitor was injured on one of the gallery's stainless steel slides.... more

Take me out: best weekend events

25.01.07
It's the last chance to get your skates on at Somerset House, scruffy indie types will be gathering for XFM All-Dayer and you can catch our food critic Toby Young at Book Slam.... more

Dull Doors and clever games

09.01.07
An early work by Tate Modern slide-meister Carsten Holler is a bit dull - but the photos of Tim Lee play delightful games, says Fisun Guner.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

04.01.07
A collection of photographs by former Pravda Vostoka photographer Max Penson go on display and the Sliding Door exhibition groups together some of the Tate Modern's latest acquisitions.... more

Tate that! Gallery's giant slides up for sale

13.11.06
The five massive slides on display at Tate Modern are for sale. Potential buyers will need an empty space at least five storeys high and a spare £300,000.... more

It's what they call aaaa-rt!

09.10.06
Valentine Low gives Tate Modern's 30mph helter-skelter the very first whirl. And he discovers why its creator Holler has such an appropriate name.... more

The Tate's 30mph twisters

09.10.06
Tate Modern has unveiled the largest slide in Britain. The Bankside gallery has been turned into a large playground with visitors able to travel down five giant slides.... more

What's coming up at Tate Modern?

26.09.06
The Turbine Hall's new installation will consist of giant chutes for visitors to slide down and will be an absolute blast says creator Carsten Höller.... more


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