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In photos: people looking at art, doors, films and workmen, Tate Modern, London
I visited the Tate Modern recently. Here’s what I saw.
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A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles’ Babel at the Tate Modern, London
I loved this installation at the Tate Modern by Brazilian conceptual artist, Cildo Meireles. The work takes the form of a tower constructed from 800 radios, each one tuned to a different …
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Phyllida Barlow’s mad furniture factory explosion and British Folk Art at the Tate Britain, Millbank, London
This year’s Tate Britain Commission is a real feast for the eyes, with Phyllida Barlow’s massive ramshackle wooden constructions almost filling every inch of the gallery’s voluminous Duveen Sculpture Court.
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Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern. Meh
Over the years, I’ve enjoyed many of the exhibitions in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern – particularly the fantastic Weather Project in 2003 – but Ai Weiwei’s work, called …
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London’s meanest slice of cake? (Tate Modern)
I’ve had some parsimonious pastries, stingy sticky buns, frugal fruitcakes and economical Eccles cakes, but I don’t think anything has ever come close to this miserly, paltry slither of carrot cake …
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Tate Modern: Miroslaw Balka’s ‘How It Is’ sculpture
Polish artist Miroslaw Balka’s sculpture – entitled ‘How It Is’ – dominates the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, standing 13 metres high by 30 metres long, and balanced on …
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