📢 JUST ANNOUNCED: 2024's #TurnerPrize nominees!

💎 Pio Abad
📝 Claudette Johnson
🚗 Jasleen Kaur
🎨 Delaine Le Bas

To mark its 40th year anniversary, the Turner Prize exhibition will be held at Tate Britain for the first time in six years! 🏛️ ➡️ bit.ly/44c6HEK

#JMWTurner was born #OnThisDay in 1775. ❤️

In his lifetime he painted some of the most celebrated works in the history of British art, while keeping his Cockney accent his whole life. 🎨

🌇 The Scarlet Sunset, c.1830–40
☀️ Lausanne: Sunset, 1841–2

'Turner never shirked the dark side of his times: the lust to rule, the poverty and oppression. But he responded intensely to its possibilities.' - Historian Jenny Uglow
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🖼️ ​ #JMWTurner born #OnThisDay 1775, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, exhibited 1842.

Happy #EarthDay ! 🌍

Here's 4 tree-mendous artworks from the collection, do you have a fave? Leaf yours in the comments below. ⬇️ bit.ly/3xFnXWQ

Today is #EarthDay and a gentle reminder to ourselves to express love for our planet. #YokoOno ’s 'I Love You Earth' is a love song for our beautiful and much-loved home.

YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND is at Tate Modern until 1 September 2024. ️🌱 🕊️ 🌎 bit.ly/3SINWni

'Talking Music' by #PaulDash shows the interior of a home in vibrant shades of blue, purple and green. 💜

Dash has painted the scene so that the viewer shares the intimacy of the space, lit by the warm glow of the fire and fading natural light. ✨ bit.ly/3JqwhMP

American figurative artist #AlexKatz has been painting flowers since the 1960s, often during summer residencies in Maine. 💐

His expressionist style, and loose brushwork elegantly captures the daisy flowers. Are you planning on making daisy chains in the sunshine? ☀️

🗓️ 28 April: Join us at Tate Modern for a panel discussion on Indigenous contemporary practice with #OutiPieski and #MareeClarke , as we focus on regenerative knowledge and the restoration of land and culture.

🎟️ Book your free tickets here ➡️ bit.ly/3UpDkeY

#TheExpressionists are coming to #TateModern ! 🎨

Discover the story of the friends that made modern art in #Expressionists : Kandinsky, Münter & the Blue Rider. ✨ Show opens next week: bit.ly/442R8z9

#WassilyKandinsky , Study for Composition 7 1913, Lenbachhaus Munich.

How do artists create work within their communities, to inspire solidarity across borders? 🌍

In this film, we looked at five artists to find out. 🎞️

Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor. bit.ly/4d04oZE

The moment's almost gone! 🕖

#CapturingTheMoment ends 28 April at #TateModern . Spend time with some of the most iconic photographs and paintings of our time, from Cecily Brown's swirls of colour to David Hockney's summer splashes. 📷🖌️

Tickets ➡️➡️ bit.ly/4aDd2M0

#VanessaBell was an English painter who was a central figure of the Bloomsbury group - a renowned collective of artists, writers, and intellectuals that was formed in 1905.

See her vibrant 'Still Life' on free display at Tate Modern's #Lates on 26 April: bit.ly/49ETSUO

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These drawings are part of Denzil Forrester’s nightclub series from the 1980s. He often captured Reggae & Dub club nights, near his East London home, setting up his drawing materials near the dancefloor.

Forerster is now located in Cornwall, see his work at Tate St Ives 💛

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms closes at Tate Modern on 28 April. Kusama describes the experience of her immersive installations of endless reflection as 'becoming one with eternity.'

Head to the Tate website for the latest ticketing info: tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-…

Was this painting made using magic? There’s only one way to find out. 🎨 🌍

We joined Tate Kids as they asked some of our youngest visitors to describe what they saw when in front of #OscarMurillo ’s giant painting ‘Manifestation’ at Tate Britain. 🏛️

✨ bit.ly/3U08Hv7

April showers bring May flowers... ☔

#DavidCox is famous for his landscapes but his portraits are just as eye-catching. In this delicate watercolour, he captures a fleeting moment in time: a woman in the centre of an impending rainstorm, the dark clouds circling around her. ☁️

📷 Discover the ideas and inspiration behind #FrancescaWoodman ’s hauntingly beautiful photographic self-portraits ➡️ bit.ly/3xGovM2
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☂️ Untitled c.1980
📷 Space², Providence, Rhode Island 1976
​🍂 Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island 1975–8

'The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.' - William Blake

Where will you be exploring this weekend? 🍃

🌸 David Gentleman, The Flower Market, Covent Garden 1972

As a landmark John Singer Sargent exhibition opens at Tate Britain, Tatler reviews how the grand master painter wove fashion into his portraits trib.al/BKTzRtG