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12/06/2026

🤍 David Hockney (1937–2026) 🤍

Today we're revisiting our 2016 film with David Hockney, as we joined him to reflect on over 60 years of painting, drawing, printmaking and photography 🎞️

'We are greatly saddened by the news of David Hockney’s death. Widely regarded as one of the most successful and recogni...
12/06/2026

'We are greatly saddened by the news of David Hockney’s death. Widely regarded as one of the most successful and recognisable artists of our time, he is an immensely important figure to Tate, with his work first entering our collection in 1963.

David was an endlessly inventive artist, with a unique vision of the world. He was always completely and courageously himself, both in his work and in life. He taught us about the joy of looking, seeing things the rest of us failed to notice - his witty and sharp observations a constant presence within his work and in person. The loss to the art world is immense: David's passing brings to a close an extraordinary body of work characterised by reinvention. He touched so many, with his astonishing talent, his love for art and life, and his profound and unconventional insights. His work continues to influence our culture, far beyond the art world.

We will be working closely with David's team to realise the two projects he was preparing for next year - a major exhibition at Tate Britain, spanning seven decades of his work, and a multimedia installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, bringing to life his celebrated designs for opera sets. Following on from Tate Britain’s 2017 Hockney exhibition, the most visited in the institution’s history, it is such an honour to offer so many the chance to experience his incredible artistry.

Hockney's work will live on at Tate for generations to come, and in museums around the world. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.'

Alex Farquharson - Director, Tate Britain

📷 Andrew Dunkley, David Hockney outside Tate Britain, 1998
📷 Robert Mapplethorpe, David Hockney, 1976, printed 2003, © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Presented by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation 2010

11/06/2026

✨ ‘Without you, my art doesn’t exist’ – Julio Le Parc ✨

Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action at Tate Modern is now open! Discover the joyful work of Le Parc in an immersive show featuring the visionary artist’s iconic interactive installations, striking sculptures, and large-scale paintings.

Best known for his pioneering kinetic sculptures that use light, movement and mirrored surfaces to playfully draw in the viewer, explore the depth and diversity of Le Parc’s extraordinary career with works from the 1950s up to the 2010s.

Book your tickets today, Members go free! 🎟️

10/06/2026

Have you spotted Frida? 🌺
 
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Opening soon at Tate Modern.
🎟️ Tickets selling fast, book yours today

'For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It’s a way of touching somebody—it’s a caress, I think that you can ac...
09/06/2026

'For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It’s a way of touching somebody—it’s a caress, I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.' - Nan Goldin 📸

Nan Goldin photographed a group of her friends preparing for the New York City Pride March. This first picture was taken in a cab as Misty and Jimmy Paulette headed uptown to join their float. Since the 1970’s Goldin has photographed many drag queens and transexual friends that she has been close to. She sees the work as an homage to their beauty and courage. Goldin has said that ‘the people in these pictures are truly revolutionary. They are the real winners of the battle of the sexes because they have stepped out of the ring.’

Goldin's intimate works explore the human condition of celebration and sadness, love and violence, life and death. Her photographs are uncensored and uncompromising. For Goldin, this reflects her desire ‘to leave a record of my life that no one can revise’. In the 1980s, Goldin's photography focused on capturing the difficulty of heterosexual relationships for her series 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'. In 1990, she met a group of drag queens and began a new series of images. Goldin said: ‘After years of experiencing and photographing the struggle of the two genders with their codes and definitions and their difficulties in relating to each other, it was liberating to meet people who had crossed these gender boundaries.’

📸 Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC, 1991 © Nan Goldin. Purchased 1997
📷 Jimmy Paulette after the parade, NYC, 1991 © Nan Goldin. Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Peter Norton 2012

Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene is a touching image of love between women. The piece is inspired by fragmented...
08/06/2026

Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene is a touching image of love between women. The piece is inspired by fragmented poems written by a woman named Sappho in the 4th century BC, in which she pleads that Aphrodite help her in her same-sex relationship. The term ‘le***an’ derives directly from this poet, as her homeland was the Greek Island of Le**os. Sappho’s story points to a longer history of same-sex desire. ​
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It’s perhaps for this reason that Simeon Solomon, a man who was attracted to men in defiance of the law, painted her. While a depiction of two men kissing would have been completely taboo, this is a passionate depiction of same-sex desire between women. Solomon’s own sexuality eventually lead to his incarceration. When he was released from prison he was rejected by many within the artist community, struggled to find work and soon became homeless.
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🎨 Simeon Solomon (1840–1905), Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864. Tate Collection. Purchased 1980

‘On three counts I am an outsider: in terms of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the ...
07/06/2026

‘On three counts I am an outsider: in terms of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the sense of not having become the sort of respectably married professional my parents might have hoped for.’ - Rotimi Fani-Kayode 📷

Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) was a Nigerian photographer who at the age of 11 moved with his family to England, fleeing from the Biafran War. He studied in the US, then returned to work in London, becoming a key figure in British contemporary art. Fani-Kayode described his work as ‘Black, African, homosexual photography’. It explores the tensions created by sexuality, race and culture through stylised portraits and compositions. For him the position of ‘outsider’ produced ‘a sense of freedom’ that he felt opened up ‘areas of creative enquiry which might otherwise have remained forbidden’. He created the bulk of his work between 1982 and 1989, the year he died from AIDS-related complications.

Fani-Kayode’s work often draws on Yoruba iconography and spirituality. These photographs are part of series titled Abiku, a Yoruba word meaning ‘born to die’. It is used to describe the spirit of a child who dies young. Fani-Kayode’s first name, Rotimi, means ‘stay with me’. Fani-Kayode used double exposure to create dramatic, and sometimes ambiguous, compositions. He said: ‘My reality is not the same as that which is often presented to us in Western photographs. As an African working in a Western medium, I try to bring out the spiritual dimensions in my pictures so that concepts of reality become ambiguous and are open to re-interpretation.’

🖤 Abiku (Born to Die), 1988, printed c.1988 © Rotimi Fani-Kayode, courtesy of Autograph ABP. Purchased with funds provided by the Africa Acquisitions Committee and Tate Members 2020

Who will you be spending time with this weekend? 🐈 📷 ​​This is a portrait of Roger, Steve (and their cat Rocky) taken in...
05/06/2026

Who will you be spending time with this weekend? 🐈 📷
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​This is a portrait of Roger, Steve (and their cat Rocky) taken in London in 1984. The photograph is part of Sunil Gupta’s pioneering ‘Lovers: Ten Years On’, a series of over thirty black and white portraits of gay and le***an couples taken in the UK between 1984 and 1986.​​ The series was made after Gupta’s own ten-year relationship ended and, as a form of social analysis, he decided to document the long-term gay relationships he encountered and the changing sensibilities of the social environment he found himself a part of.​​

Taken over a period of two years, the portraits all follow the same format – they are shot in domestic interiors, with their poses and arrangements reminiscent of traditional family photographs. The series was accompanied by an artist’s statement, in which Gupta observed that while there had been a shift in gay self-consciousness since the 1970s, the arrival of HIV and Aids had once again turned public opinion against the acceptance of homosexuality, and that its popular and commercial representations were dominated by a stereotype of deviance.​​

Discover Gupta's photography in our free Tate Britain display, No Such Thing As Society 1980 - 1990 🏛️ https://bit.ly/4nkmr2c

📷 Sunil Gupta, Roger & Steve, London, 1984, printed 2018 © Sunil Gupta. Partial gift of Rudolph Leuthold and partial purchase 2018

04/06/2026

Did you catch Anicka Yi’s enchanting aerobes in the Turbine Hall? ❤️ 🌏

Today we’re throwing back to the artist’s 2021 Hyundai Commission ‘In Love With The World’. Yi’s practice explores the merging of technology and biology, breaking down distinctions between plants, animals, micro-organisms and machines.

Based on ocean life forms and mushrooms, Yi’s machines – called aerobes – prompt us to think, what would it feel like to share the world with machines that could live in the wild and evolve on their own? 🌱

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