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On sale now, Monet: Painting Time 🪷 🎨In what will be Tate Modern’s first ever exhibition focusing exclusively on Claude ...
16/09/2026

On sale now, Monet: Painting Time 🪷 🎨

In what will be Tate Modern’s first ever exhibition focusing exclusively on Claude Monet, discover the exquisite works of one of history’s best-loved artists as we bring together breathtaking paintings from lenders across the globe, including rarely seen works from private collections.

Based mainly in France, Monet lived through an era which saw the rise of railways, industrialisation, the modern city, and the adoption of standardised timekeeping. Drawing on new research, the show explores how Monet responded to these seismic changes through his work, centring on his profound and evolving relationship with time.

Monet: Painting Time opens at Tate Modern on 25 February until 27 June 2027. Book your tickets today. Members go free 🎟️ https://bit.ly/3PcYbSH

Supported by Lead Supporter Morgan Stanley

🎨 Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond, 1899. © The National Gallery, London
📷 Claude Monet in his Giverny Garden by the water lily pond in 1921. The Corvid Compendium, Alamy

14/09/2026

The Mona Lisa of the Victorian era...

In a time of great change and great beauty emerged the character of James McNeill Whistler. Considered by some to be one of the great innovators of 19th century art, he was a contemporary of the Impressionists, much admired by Van Gogh and Manet. Here, Art Critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston shares the story behind Whistler’s Mother, one of the artist’s most famous works currently on display in Tate Britain’s Whistler exhibition.

Discover more about Whistler in an unmissable new documentary by Exhibition on Screen, with scenes filmed inside our Tate Britain show. Out in cinemas from Tuesday 15 September 2026. Find a screening near you 🎬

https://bit.ly/4dCTCu6

A reminder that sometimes, all you need is a little green, some sky and nowhere else to be. 🌳 Philip Wilson Steer, Strou...
13/09/2026

A reminder that sometimes, all you need is a little green, some sky and nowhere else to be. 🌳

Philip Wilson Steer, Stroud: An Upland Landscape 1902, bequeathed by H.B. Harris 1929.

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'I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I'v...
12/09/2026

'I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.' - Nan Goldin, born on this day 📸

Nan 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. She 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.’

She first encountered drag queens in 1972 and quickly became obsessed. Goldin explained: 'I was eighteen and felt like I was a queen too... they became my whole world.' 👑

📷 Jimmy Paulette after the parade, NYC, 1991 © Nan Goldin. Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Peter Norton 2012

11/09/2026

How much do you know about Whistler?

We recently joined at Tate Britain to chat all things captivating within the world of the rule-breaking artist. 
 
A pioneer of new and innovative techniques, discover Whistler’s astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life before the exhibition closes on 27 September 2026

10/09/2026

‘My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the Universe’ – Ana Mendieta

Throughout her work, Mendieta posed profound questions around displacement and identity, embracing a deep relationship with the natural world. Discover Mendieta’s iconic works alongside newly remastered films, early paintings, and late sculptural pieces, many of which have never been seen in the UK before. At Tate Modern until 17 Jan 2027. Members go free.

🎟️ https://bit.ly/4bkMosY

🗓️ Upcoming dates for the diary 🗓️

✨ 11 and 12 Sept: Join us for ‘Like Spores, We Spread’ a two-day outdoor gathering exploring ecological and relational practices. This two-day event expands on Tate Modern’s Ana Mendieta exhibition, considering notions of reciprocity and responsibility for what surrounds us and that we are a part of. Book your free tickets today 🔗 https://bit.ly/4xlFAUF

🏭 25 Sept: For September’s Tate Modern Lates, we’re celebrating the powerful work of Ana Mendieta with a free programme of exciting talks, workshops, and music. See you there 🔗 https://bit.ly/3aPlFtf

All Artworks © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, 2026 / Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery and Alison Jacques, London

Brassaï, born 1899, would often photograph Parisian nightlife. 🗼🥂The Hungarian–French photographer would walk around t...
09/09/2026

Brassaï, born 1899, would often photograph Parisian nightlife. 🗼🥂

The Hungarian–French photographer would walk around the city, ready with his camera, tripod, magnesium flash powder and a box of 24 glass plate negatives. He believed that ‘this underground world represented Paris… at its most alive, it’s most authentic.’

This photograph was taken on a visit to Le Monocle, a le***an night club in Montmartre. Brassaï befriended a regular club visitor called Claude and accompanied her there one night in 1932. He approached several people, asking their permission to photograph them and setting up his camera, then taking a small number of photographs of them. The sitter is anonymous, wearing a suit, cravat and large gold ring with her hair waxed down.

Brassaï took 'Young Le***an at Monocle' as part of his project Paris by Night, but the image was first printed and published in 1976 in his book The Secret Paris of the 30s. One of a number of images of gay and le***an nightlife that Brassaï published for the first time that year, the portrait offers us a rare (and well-dressed) glimpse of early 20th century q***r history.

📸 Brassaï, Young Le***an at Monocle, 1932 © Brassai Estate / DACS, All rights reserved 2026. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax from the Estate of Barbara Lloyd and allocated to Tate 2009

Candyfloss by the seaside. Cricket in the summer sun. A pint at the local. In 1980, Chris Steele-Perkins began a decade-...
09/09/2026

Candyfloss by the seaside. Cricket in the summer sun. A pint at the local.

In 1980, Chris Steele-Perkins began a decade-long project photographing England through the lens of pleasure. Travelling across the country, he captured the customs, traditions and everyday moments that reveal something about how we see ourselves.

In his own words: ‘I found myself returning to the public rituals that we employ in the pursuit of happiness. For there we display our identity; as we would like it to be. There we make signals to each other about who we are, and about what we believe in.'

Find a selection of Chris Steele-Perkins' photographs on free display at Tate Britain

Cambridge University Spring Ball 1980–9
Cumbria 1980–9
Rose Ball, London 1980–9
Blackpool Beach 1980–9
Night Club, London 1990
Buddist Retreat, Hemel Hempstead
Crufts Dog Show 1980–9

© Chris Steele-Perkins. Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Acquisitions Committee 2016 https://bit.ly/46Nj0tm

'As a painter, you're always pushing, but you never push into chaos. What looks chaotic at first resolves into harmony.'...
07/09/2026

'As a painter, you're always pushing, but you never push into chaos. What looks chaotic at first resolves into harmony.' - Patrick Heron 🎨

This vibrant oil painting by Heron was produced in May 1956, and is one of a series of artworks inspired by his garden in Zennor, Cornwall. It was painted at a crucial time in the artist's career, as he moved from figurative imagery to pure abstraction. This painting combines elements of both: the forms and textures of abstract art with 'the extraordinary effervescence of flowering azaleas'.

Discover Heron's painting in our free Tate Britain display, Living Gardens. As Tate Britain’s own garden undergoes a transformation, this display reflects on the ways gardens have served as sites of inspiration, experimentation and refuge for artists throughout the 20th century.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4hes8NG

💐 Patrick Heron, Azalea Garden : May 1956, 1956 © Patrick Heron Trust. All rights reserved, DACS 2026

What's in your fruit bowl? 🍐🍎🍏🍈🍇🍒🍓 🎨 Margaret Fisher Prout, Home Grown, 1952 © Tate. Presented by the Trustees of the Ch...
06/09/2026

What's in your fruit bowl? 🍐🍎🍏🍈🍇🍒🍓

🎨 Margaret Fisher Prout, Home Grown, 1952 © Tate. Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1953

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