Drop-in
Music: DJ Sets Programmed by Global Roots
Location: Turbine Hall, Level 0
Time: 18.00–21.30
Catch DJ sets from Anu and Anja Ngozi, programmed by Global Roots, in the iconic Turbine Hall.
Music and Drinks: For Philip Guston
Location: Corner Cafe, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Time: Performances between 18.00–21.30
Catch a special improvised performance inspired by For Philip Guston, composed by Guston’s friend, the visionary composer Morton Feldman. This is a rare chance to hear music inspired by one of Feldman’s final pieces, originally written in 1984 to honour Guston’s memory. Performed by Alyson Frazier, Angela Wai-Nok Hui and James Young.
Workshop: Tate Draw
Location: Starr Foyer, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1 and Blavatnik Building, Level 3
Time: 18.00–21.30
Head to our drawing desks and bring your work to life using digital sketch pads. Tate Draw is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Music and Drinks: DJ Sets Programmed by Global Roots
Location: Terrace Bar, Blavatnik Building, Level 1
Time: 18.00–21.30
Catch DJ sets from Di-Vincent, Esk and ElMari alongside Tate’s own brews, cocktails, and craft beers on tap.
Social Space: Common Ground – Designed by Ronan Mckenzie
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 2
Time: 18.00–21.30
Designed by multidisciplinary artist Ronan Mckenzie, Common Ground is a place to gather, reflect and relax. Inspired by A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Mckenzie hopes Common Ground will ignite ideas and offer a comfortable space to spend time. Choose from a selection of reference books selected by the exhibition’s curator Osei Bonsu, and Ronan Mckenzie, and experience a rich soundscape curated by Alex Rita of Touching Bass, the South London-based musical movement and record label.
Film: Conversations with Philip Guston
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 4
Time: Played on a loop between 18.00–21.30
Drop in to watch Conversations with Philip Guston (45 mins). Directed by Michael Blackwood, the documentary offers an intimate study of Guston’s thoughts, featuring art historians and critics as they speal to Guston about his ideas and late figurative work of the 1970s.
Workshop: Illustrating Poetry Monoprints with U:Studio
Location: Natalie Bell Building, Level 4
Time: 18.00–21.30
Guston was influenced by poetry and regularly collaborated with poets including his wife, Musa McKim. Inspired by the artist’s poem-pictures, join U:Studio to create your own poetic monoprint illustrations.
Talks: 10 Minute Talks
Various times, throughout the building
Staff and volunteers from across Tate share their personal insights into works from the collection.
Free tickets - book online
Film: Science, Body, Anatomy
Location: Starr Cinema, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Time: 19.00–20.30
Co-curated with Sonia Epstein (Museum of the Moving Image), and drawing inspiration from Guston’s depictions of body parts in his Roma series, join us for a selection of short films that question the merging of film and medical technology. Jeamin Cha’s film Ellie’s Eye looks at dog ophthalmology to examine how medical technologies relate to the human desire to see through. Barbara Hammer’s technicolor Sanctus discusses the beauty and danger of images made by radiation, while Leslie Thornton & Ron Vawter's Strange Space and Caroline Key’s Khôra explore the differences between medical views and personal experiences of our bodies.
*Free tickets are required for this event, tickets are bookable here from 14.00 today
Free tickets - collect on the night
Talks: Art Chats
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 5 or stream online
Hear from artists working across painting, photography and sculpture as they give a quick but deep dive into their practice.
19.00–19.30 Graphic Novels Now Join artist and broadcaster Anu Ambasna to delve into the social impact of graphic novels, with artists Stella Murphy and Clio Isadora.
20.00–20.30 Artists Respond Hear from artist Blk Moody Boi, poet Andra Simons and curator and DJ Anja Ngozi as they respond to Guston's work, hosted by Michael Raymond, co-curator of the Philip Guston exhibition.
21.00–21.30 Art and Identity Artists explore Guston’s Jewish heritage and identity through his work, with artist Miriam Elia and Andrew Renton, Professor of Curating, hosted by Alex Eisenberg.
All talks will be BSL interpreted
*Requires a free ticket, available to collect from the Tanks Studio Blavatnik Building Level 0, on a first-come, first-served basis from 17.30
Workshop: Cartoon Workshop with Kazvare Made It
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 6
Time: 18.50–19.30, 19.50–20.30 and 20.50–21.30
Inspired by political cartoons, satire and the subversive nature of Guston’s work, join illustrator Kazvare Made It to produce your own illustrations and cartoons to make bold statements.
*Requires a free ticket, available to collect from the Tanks Studio Blavatnik Building Level 0, on a first-come, first-served basis from 17.30
