LONDON.- Tate Modern is ten on 12 May 2010. Over 45 million visitors have passed through the gallery’s doors since it first opened to the public ten years ago. Tate Modern is the world’s most visited gallery of modern art and is one of the UK’s top three free tourist attractions. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Tate Modern will stage a major free {...}

LONDON.- Tate today announced its Tate App is now available from the App Store. The release of the app coincides with the 10th Unilever Series Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and was inspired by the latest large-scale installation to take over the space. The app will offer iPhone and iPod touch users an interactive, {...}

Jitish Kallat, Anger at the Speed of Fright, acrylic and resin hand-painted figures. © Jitish Kallat, courtesy of Haunch of Venison.

LONDON.- In February 2009, Haunch of Venison London will present an {...}

Hauser & Wirth represents over 40 established and emerging contemporary artists. Photo: Felix Clay, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

LONDON.- Leading international gallery Hauser & Wirth has announced plans to open a new space in autumn 2010 at 23 Savile Row, London. The gallery will occupy the entire ground floor of a newly developed {...}

Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition in the UK devoted to the Dutch artist and pivotal figure of the European avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931). This is a unique and exciting chance for van Doesburg’s work to be seen for the first time in the UK. This follows in the footsteps of a series of exhibitions looking {...}

Cyprien Gaillard Desniansky Raion 2007 courtesy Laura Bartlett Gallery, London and Cosmic Gallery, Paris © The artist

Rival gangs battle on a housing estate, a tower block is illuminated by a light show before it is razed to the ground, and a housing estate in a Russian suburb, Desniansky Raion, stands desolate and empty - these are all part of artist Cyprien Gaillard’s triptych {...}

1 Destroy the cult of the past, the obsession with the ancients, pedantry and academic formalism.
2 Totally invalidate all kinds of imitation.
3 Elevate all attempts at originality, however daring,however violent.
4 Bear bravely and proudly the smear of ‘madness’ with which they try to gag all innovators.
5 Regard art critics as useless and dangerous.
6 Rebel against the tyranny of {...}

1 We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness.
2 Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry.
3 Up to now literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstacy, and sleep. we intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap.
4 We affirm that the world’s magnificence {...}

Mikhail Karikis esimorP, part of Oreet Ashery’s Saints of Whitstable, Whitstable Biennale 2008 Photo: © Marcus Kern

As part of the Futurism show at The Tate Modern Mikhail Karikis will be running a workshop called The Voice and Everything Else this Saturday. You might have heard of his recent rough trade album, his website is {...}