What’s on: Exhibitions
Tate Modern : Exhibition
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
11 November 2015 – 3 April 2016
This exhibition will reveal how motion, performance and theatricality underpinned his practice
Tate Britain : Exhibition
Artist and Empire
25 November 2015 – 10 April 2016
Tate Britain presents a major exhibition of art associated with the British Empire from the 16th century to the present day. The show raises questions about ownership, authorship and how the value and meanings of these diverse objects have changed through history
Tate Modern : Exhibition
Coming soon: Performing for the Camera
18 February 2016 – 12 June 2016
Serious performance art, portraiture, or just simply posing for the camera? What does is it mean to perform for the camera?
Tate Britain : Exhibition
Frank Auerbach
9 October 2015 –13 March 2016
Join us for a retrospective of the work of Frank Auerbach, the maker of some of the most resonant and inventive paintings in recent times, both of people and of the urban landscapes near his studio in Camden Town
Tate Liverpool : Exhibition
Works to Know by Heart: An Imagined Museum
20 November 2015 – 14 February 2016
You’ve arrived at Tate Liverpool in the future. All of the works of art on display are about to disappear, forever. Which works of art do you want to know by heart, committing them to memory so that your favourite piece lives on?
Tate St Ives
Coming soon: The Studio and The Sea
21 May – 2 October 2016
A season of two exhibitions about the ceramics studio, the ocean and the landscape
What's on: Events
Tate Modern : Performance and music
Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculptures
Monday 22 February 2016, 19.00–20.15Artist Erwin Wurm invites you to make a One Minute Sculpture. Through his work Erwin Wurm questions and reflects on sculpture itself, seeking to overcome its restrictions, limiting its life time to one minute only
Tate Britain : Talks and lectures, Conversation
On Auerbach: Painting, process, landscape
Wednesday 24 February 2016, 18.30–20.00How can painting capture place through time? This conversation focuses on Auerbach’s urban landscapes, discussing his process in relation to contemporary painterly and personal engagements with the concepts of place and time
Tate Modern : Conference
Art is…
Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30–20.00Art Is… a day devoted to dialogue, discussions and ideas. This event is focused on thinking about the relationship between art and education and the social function of art
Tate Britain : Talks and lectures
Anwar Shemza
Friday 11 March 2016, 18.30–20.00An intimate evening of conversation and reflection on the work of pioneering painter Anwar Shemza, who moved from Lahore to Britain in 1956
Tate Modern : Courses and workshops
8-14’s Winter Club
Wednesday 17 February – Friday 19 February, 10.00–14.00, Saturday 20 February 2016, 12.00–17.00Are you interested in creating alongside an artist? Are you curious about what happens inside an artist studio? For this Winter Club, artist Matt Shaw brings his studio to Tate and invites you to join him in improvising with a range of materials to see how together you can manipulate and transform to discover the unknown
Tate Modern : Talks and lectures
Alexander S.C. Rower in conversation with Achim Borchardt-Hume
Friday 12 February 2016, 18.30–20.00Alexander S. C. Rower, Calder’s grandson, joins Achim Borchardt-Hume, Director of Exhibitions in conversation to discuss the pioneering artist’s life and work
Tate recommends
Tate Kids
How to be an artist: Tate Kids films
Watch art and artists come to life in these Tate Kids videos and clips
Digital innovation
Call for entries to IK Prize 2016!
The Prize is open to creative practitioners around the world with expertise in some form of digital technology, whether animation, gaming, digital product and experience design or otherwise, and involving anything from coding and software development to computer science and robotics
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Tate online shop
Valentine's Day gifts at Tate online shop
From romantic Pre-raphaelite prints to beautiful print portfolios, treat your loved one this Valentine’s Day
New Tate Modern
The new Tate Modern opens 17 June 2016
Our new ten-storey building will help us present an increasingly international view of modern and contemporary art, as well as be a space to meet, learn and create. Art changes. So do we.
Research resource
Art & artists
Explore Tate’s collection of British, international, modern and contemporary art from 1500 to the present day. Learn about over 70,000 artworks from Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain to Roy Lichenstein’s Whaam!
Tate Etc : Apps
Tate Etc. for iPad
Our iPad version of Tate Etc. includes the best content from the magazine plus extras including exhibition tours and visits to artists’ studios
Tate Worlds
Tate Worlds: Art Reimagined for Minecraft
Tate meets Minecraft. Enter a virtual world inspired by art
Learning resource
Try our free online courses
Through a series of learning tutorials, let artists and curators take you on a journey through art histories and practices from around the world
#ArtWords
Glossary term of the month: Sound art
Welcome to our glossary term of the month! Tate’s online glossary is designed to explain and illuminate some of the art terminology you will find on our website, from abstract art to Zero
Exhibitions and displays
ARTIST ROOMS
Find out more about ARTIST ROOMS, a touring collection of international contemporary art jointly owned by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate on behalf of the nation
- Listen to mixes inspired by Tate works
MixTate is a series of commissioned mixes inspired by works in Tate’s collection by up-and-coming musical figures
