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All Tate Reports Tate Report 07/08

A Year at Tate

April 07

30 April

Conservation work begins on Two Forms (Divided Circle) 1969 in Barbara Hepworth's Garden studios in St Ives.

May

4 May

A rehang of several galleries at Tate Modern features rooms of work by Francesca Woodman, Cristina Iglesias, Steve McQueen and Dieter Roth.

8 May

At a fundraising dinner in New York we announce a group of major works has been donated in addition to a sum of $1.6 million raised to acquire works by contemporary artists from North and South America.

22 May

How We Are, a survey of British photography from 1840 to the present, opens at Tate Britain.

25–28 May

UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, four days of performance, film and installations at Tate Modern attracts over 100,000 people and culminates in a giant sleepover for young people.

26 May

If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, An Art Exhibition opens at Tate St Ives, looking at a wide range of work shaped by the creative force behind The Beach Boys.

June

1 June

Dalí & Film opens at Tate Modern exploring the interplay between painting and film in the surrealist artist's work.

6 June

An exhibition of the colourful work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica opens at Tate Modern.

11 June

David Hockney's selection of works by JMW Turner goes on display at Tate Britain, and five new paintings by the artist of the East Yorkshire landscape are also hung in the gallery.

20 June

The Turbine Hall at Tate Modern becomes home to Global Cities, a spectacular installation examining recent changes in ten global cities and featuring the work of many leading international artists and architects.

29 June

Peter Blake is the subject of a retrospective which opens at Tate Liverpool.

July

6 July

Inspired by William Blake, young people create outfits for a unique fashion show at Tate Britain.

7 July

Social Systems, part of a series of commissions in Cornwall by ProjectBase, opens at Tate St Ives and includes the work of Superflex and Regina Möller.

20 July

Launch of the BT Tate Player enabling more new and archive audio and film content to be shown online.

21 July

The Fight, a performance involving 100 boxers, musicians and dancers from Southwark takes place on Tate Modern's Turbine Hall bridge.

September

14 September

UBS Openings: Saturday Live presents the UK premiere of Alvin Curran's Maritime Rites, a major performance on the banks of the river Thames opposite Tate Modern. It involves the London Symphony Orchestra, volunteer musicians and the bells of St Paul's Cathedral.

17 September

Kotki Dwa, a three-piece indie band, win the Your Tate Track challenge, launched to inspire young unsigned bands and musicians to create musical responses to works on display at Tate Modern.

26 September

A major retrospective of the work of John Everett Millais opens at Tate Britain.

29 September

DLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century: How it looked & how it felt, which includes many of the most famous works from the Tate Collection, opens at Tate Liverpool.

October

1 October

The largest retrospective of the work of JMW Turner to be held in the USA, curated with 89 loans from Tate's Turner Bequest, opens at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

2 October

While the Turner Prize heads to Tate Liverpool, an exhibition of work by the 22 winners of the Prize opens at Tate Britain and reflects upon some of the most significant moments in recent British art.

3 October

A giant spider arrives on the north landscape of Tate Modern to welcome visitors to the Louise Bourgeois exhibition.

6 October

An exhibition of the work of Tate St Ives' artist in residence Jonty Lees opens at the gallery.

9 October

We unveil the 2007 commission for The Unilever Series at Tate Modern: this year by Doris Salcedo.

10 October

Tate acquires works by four artists from the 2007 Frieze contemporary art fair.

18–19 October

A conservation workshop, Inherent Vice: The Replica and its Implications in Modern Sculpture, is held at Tate Modern and pioneers new research and collaboration among institutions on the controversial issue of replicas.

19 October

The annual Turner Prize opens outside London for the first time ever. The exhibition, at Tate Liverpool, includes the work of Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger and goes on to become the gallery's most popular exhibition ever.

24 October

The World as a Stage opens at Tate Modern, bringing together sixteen international artists to explore the link between theatre, spectacle and visitor experience.

29 October

The announcement of the remarkable bequest to Tate and the National Gallery of eighteen paintings by the late Simon Sainsbury.

November

3 November

A display celebrating the 250th anniversary of William Blake's birth opens at Tate Britain and includes a group of important colour-printed designs.

30 November

Fiona Banner's Christmas Tree is unveiled at Tate Britain and features handmade kit models of all the world's fighter planes.

December

3 December

Amid camera flashes and television crews and on the eve of the Capital of Culture, Tate Liverpool announces that Mark Wallinger has won the 2007 Turner Prize.

5 December

Tate secures a £50 million capital investment from the Government towards the new development of Tate Modern and launches The Great Tate Mod Blog inviting the public to upload images of their favourite interior spaces and shape the future development.

13 December

Damien Hirst presents Tate with four works saying, ‘It means a lot to me to have works in the Tate. I would have never thought it possible when I was a student.'

January 08

8 January

Alt Bridge Secondary Support Centre is announced the winner of the Tate Liverpool's Schools' Turner Prize.

24 January

A cast of dwarfs and storytellers take over a wing of Tate Modern as the quietly enigmatic sculptures by the late Juan Muñoz are shown in a dedicated retrospective.

26 January

Exhibitions devoted to Rose Hilton, Hugh Stoneman and Margo Maeckelberghe open at Tate St Ives.

28 January

Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries are transformed by an exhibition of neoclassical sculpture including Antonio Canova's The Three Graces c1817–19.

February

1 February

Tate Liverpool presents the first UK exhibition of Niki de Saint Phalle's work since her death in 2002.

5 February

The lush and evocative paintings of Peter Doig are the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain.

6 February

The Art of Giving conference at Tate Britain brings together artists, politicians and directors to discuss philanthropy and public funding from an artist's perspective.

13 February

Tate Britain takes a look at the work of the Camden Town Group in an exhibition that explores how these artists responded to and captured the shared experience of modern life.

21 February

Lifelong friends and collaborators Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia are brought together again for an exhibition at Tate Modern exploring the various parallels between their work.

27 February

Tate announces the creation of ARTIST ROOMS, a new national collection of contemporary art given to Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland on a part-gift, part-sale basis by Anthony d'Offay.

March

14 March

A major series devoted to French avant-garde cinema launches at Tate Modern. Paradise Now! marks the 40th anniversary of the student protests which rocked Paris in 1968.