Tate Modern – Heraclitean Fire

The South Bank Centre is marking 70 years since the end of WW2 with a collection of events entitled Changing Britain. The Hayward Gallery’s contribution is an exhibition History Is Now: 7 Art...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2015/03/19/exhibition-roundup-history-is-now-marlene-dumas-cotton-to-gold/

I finally got round to visiting the Sigmar Polke retrospective at Tate Modern — it ends on Sunday — and it was enjoyable. Not so much because I absolutely loved the work; I liked quit...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2015/02/04/sigmar-polke-at-tate-modern/

So I went along to see the big Damien Hirst show at Tate Modern. It rather lacked the element of surprise; whatever Hirst’s other qualities, he is a great self-publicist, so anyone living in th...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2012/07/03/damien-hirst-at-the-tate/

Without knowing a lot about Joan Miró, I’ve always liked his work when I’ve seen it. It’s interesting the way that the work of one artist will speak to you and another won’t… so I’v...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2011/05/06/miro-at-tate-modern/

So, I went along to the Tate’s big Gauguin show the other day… which to be honest was slightly disappointing. Not least because nothing seemed very surprising; I wouldn’t have said I knew G...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2010/11/09/gauguin-at-tate-modern/

Two superficially very different exhibitions at Tate Modern at the moment. One is Pop Life: Art in a Material World; to quote the blurb: Andy Warhol claimed “Good business is the best art.” T...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2009/10/16/pop-life-and-john-baldessari-at-tate-modern/

I went along to the Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern. Having sometimes commented on the excellence of past Tate exhibition websites, I have to say they’ve fallen down on this one — nothing ...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2009/06/18/futurism-at-tate-modern/

I went to the Rothko exhibition at Tate Modern today. The show is of his ‘late series’: the centrepiece is the Seagram Murals (i.e. the group of dark Rothkos which have been in the Tate for y...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2008/10/07/rothko-at-tate-modern/

I went to the Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern today. What a fabulous name, btw: I tried climbing the Eiffel Tower but the height made me go all twombly. He’s not someone I knew much about b...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2008/07/03/cy-twombly-at-tate-modern/

The exhibition is subtitled ‘The Moment Art Changed Forever’ and the poster is illustrated with Duchamp’s Fountain, the famous work that just consists of a urinal signed with the name ‘R....

https://heracliteanfire.net/2008/03/07/duchamp-man-ray-picabia-at-tate-modern/

Last week I went to see the crack at Tate Modern, which is the latest big artwork in the Turbine Hall. You can read what the Tate thinks it’s about here. I found it less impressive in reality t...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2007/10/21/visiting-the-crack/

I went yesterday to see the big Gilbert and George retrospective at Tate Modern. The Tate have done their usual thorough job of putting the exhibition online, so that link will give you a fair id...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2007/03/02/gilbert-and-george-at-tate-modern/

‘Wassily Kandinsky’; what a great name. Tate Modern currently has an exhibition Kandinsky: The Path To Abstraction, which traces Kandinsky’s development from a painter of Fauvist/post-Impre...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2006/06/29/kandinsky-at-the-tate/

Back to Rousseau. The painter, not Jean-Jacques. I’m afraid the exhibition, Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris is nearly over, so this won’t be much use to anyone who was trying to decide wheth...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2006/01/24/rousseau-at-the-tate/

I went to see the Rousseau exhibition at Tate Modern today (on which possibly more later) and finally saw one of the resident peregrine falcons. Woohoo! It’s the world’s fastest-falling bird,...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2006/01/23/falco-peregrinus/

I’m feeling a bit pot/kettle for having been rude to Lynne Truss for whinging about things, because this, for the third post in a row, is going to be a whinge. This time: those blurbs in art ga...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2005/10/19/art-gallery-blurbs/

Rachel Whiteread is the latest person to do a big installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Embankment consists of lots of translucent white plastic casts of the internal space of cardboar...

https://heracliteanfire.net/2005/10/12/rachel-whiteread-at-tate-modern/