A new art installation opens today at the Tate Modern. There’s just one snag – you can’t actually see it. Walk in to the Turbine Hall and you’ll find a plain black floor. The portrait hidden underneath can only be revealed using body heat. In other words, by getting a very large number people to … Read more
has unveiled two immersive and highly political artworks about forced migration and sexual brutality in its subterranean Tanks space. The large installations by the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh and India’s Amar Kanwar were opened to the public on Monday and both will enter Tate’s collection. In the East Tank is a multichannel sound installation by … Read more
Twinkling like rows of cut-glass decanters in a well-stocked drinks cabinet, the faceted windows atop Cape Town’s new contemporary art museum rise as a crystal beacon above a motley jumble of wharves, warehouses and shopping malls. The windows shine out from the crown of a majestic concrete grain silo that has stood here since the … Read more
I recently found myself staring into a stranger’s living room, waiting for something beautiful to happen. I was standing on the 10th-floor viewing terrace of the Tate Modern’s new wing, a twisting ziggurat of perforated brick and mortar that rises above the museum’s home in the old Bankside Power Station. The terrace allows for 360-degree views of … Read more
I recently found myself staring into a stranger’s living room, waiting for something beautiful to happen. I was standing on the 10th-floor viewing terrace of the Tate Modern’s new wing, a twisting ziggurat of perforated brick and mortar that rises above the museum’s home in the old Bankside Power Station. The terrace allows for 360-degree views of … Read more
You hear the exhibition before you see it – the booming voice of Dr Martin Luther King resonating through the Tate Modern galleries. King’s rousing words in Washington in 1963 inspired the black communities of America to protest, march and sing for their rights Now for the first time, the show at the Tate Modern shows how they also … Read more