Tate Britain, Millbank

Posted on September 8, 2009 at 3:32 PM.

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Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day and is part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It opened in 1897 and houses a substantial collection of the work of J.M.W. Turner.

Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/

Exhibition Description:

The main display spaces show the permanent collection of historic British art, as well as contemporary work subject to rotation and with rooms often dedicated to works by one artist, such as: Tracey Emin, John Latham, Douglas Gordon, Sam Taylor-Wood, Marcus Gheeraerts II.

The gallery organises career retrospectives of British artists, temporary major exhibitions of British Art and every three years the gallery stages a Triennial exhibition in which a guest curator provides an overview of contemporary British Art. The Tate Britain also hosts the annual and usually controversial Turner Prize exhibition, featuring four artists under the age of fifty, selected by a jury chaired by a Tate director.

BP British Art Displays
Image: Mark Rothko
Black on Maroon 1958
© 1998 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Mixed media on canvas
2667 x 3812 mm

Full Contact Details:

Millbank
London SW1P 4RG