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London wants to see tough films for hard times

17.10.11
Six days in and the 55th London Film Festival has already yielded a fine harvest of intriguing movies. But it ain't a barrel of laughs... more

1915 art show blasted into the new century by Tate

13.06.11
The 1915 London art show that introduced the influential Vorticist art movement to the world is being recreated at Tate Britain... more

Tate Britain is thinking in 3D

16.03.11
An exhibition at Tate Britain devoted to James Stirling reveals the extraordinary methods of a controversial architect who has much to teach today's designers... more

Watercolour wonders at Tate Britain and Courtauld Gallery

24.02.11
The bigger of two new exhibitions devoted to watercolour demonstrates the beauty of the art as much as it clouds the picture with naive enthusiasm for the craft... more

Away with the fairies and Susan Hiller

03.02.11
Susan Hiller is the grande dame of the art of ideas - but the meaning of her noisy and whimsical experiments proves frustratingly elusive... more

Google goes off the street for 360-degree gallery tours in stunning detail

01.02.11
Google's Street View technology has been taken indoors for the first time - into some of the world's most famous art galleries... more

The beauties and the beasts

06.01.11
The major galleries promise the earth in their shows this year — but what will they deliver?... more

25 ways to survive the dark months

05.01.11
The festive season may be behind us but there are plenty of winter warmers to keep us entertained... more

Susan Philipsz won the Turner Prize … but you can’t see why

07.12.10
Commentary: Tate Britain setting doesn’t do justice to artist's atmospheric sound sculpture ... more

Folk song favourite to win 2010 Turner Prize

06.12.10
A recording of a traditional folk song is favourite to win the Turner Prize... more

Step back through time at Tate Britain

30.11.10
Visitors to Tate Britain will be able for the first time to walk through a chronological history of 20th-century British art, from Walter Sickert to Damien Hirst... more

Best of Brit art

15.10.10
A new generation of artists and gallerists is snapping at the heels of Hirst, Jopling and co. Hannah Nathanson meets the new YBAs... more

In the frame: the best of London's Frieze week exhibits

14.10.10
Damien Hirst’s poison, a 24-hour-long film about time and Rachel Whiteread drawings head up our list of the capital's top Frieze offerings... more

Turner Prize 2010 — haunting songs, ripped canvases and a death scene

04.10.10
There are canvases ripped and battered to the point of destruction and an empty room filled with a haunting voice singing. It’s the 2010 Turner Prize show... more

Father of 3D photography stars at Tate Britain

06.09.10
Work by a London photographer who experimented with 3D more than 100 years ago is going on display at an exhibition at Tate Britain... more

£45m makeover for Tate Britain is given go-ahead

02.07.10
Westminster planning committee grants permission for a significant refurbishment of the gallery which will remodel areas such as the central rotunda to cope with growing visitor numbers... more

When principles do much more harm than good

29.06.10
The value of principles is being tested to destruction at the moment. For the 171 undersigned who wrote to The Guardian’s letters page yesterday, righteous anger with BP is worth the collapse of Tate Britain.... more

Fighter jets are turned into dramatic works of art in Battle of Tate Britain

28.06.10
Two recently de-commissioned fighter jets have been transformed into giant sculptures in Tate Britain... more

A stick of rock, cock? Tate Britain gets smutty

24.06.10
Tate Britain’s new show is sunk by smutty seaside humour, crude caricatures and pretentious contemporary art, says Brian Sewell... more

Tate Britain to stage first show of artworks made on iPad

18.06.10
Tate Britain has announced its first iPad art installation... more

The new rude: why Brits love getting saucy

07.06.10
Think Donald McGill postcards and Carry On films — now saucy, bawdy culture is getting a 21st-century makeover, says Liz Hoggard.... more

Tate’s Rude Britannia is celebration of comic art

07.06.10
Harry Hill and Gerald Scarfe have helped transform Tate Britain into a naughty wonderland of comedy for a new exhibition... more

A Bite Out In London - City Café in Westminster

12.05.10
It is worth popping into the City Café after a trip to one of the nearby tourist attractions. ... more

‘Tesco singer’ heads shortlist for this year’s Turner Prize

04.05.10
An artist who made her name singing through the PA system at Tesco has been shortlisted for this year's £25,000 Turner Prize... more

Who to watch in 2010

05.01.10
In politics, the arts, sport and beyond, there is a wealth of talent jostling to make a mark this year, says Gideon Spanier... more

The Great Gallery Gallop

17.12.09
The holidays provide a wonderful chance to catch up on exhibitions — from the V&A’s fine new galleries to masterly drawings in Dulwich.... more

Choir mania - the rise of indie choirs

30.11.09
Christmas is heralding a new kind of choral singing — now it’s all scratch choirs and piling into the pub after the gig... more

Ashes to ashes … dust, skulls and cow brains on the Turner Prize shortlist

05.10.09
A huge pile of dust and the skull of a sperm whale are among this year’s shortlisted entries for the Turner Prize... more

Unwell gallery worker was moved to 'cold' Tate Modern

10.08.09
Gallery employee with Crohn's disease broke down today as she described the impact on her health of a work transfer to Tate Modern, which she claims was too cold... more


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