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Tate Britain

May 2026

  • Grayson Perry at the Tate Britain garden at Chelsea Flower Show.

    The Guardian view on gallery and museum gardens: a blooming triumph

    Editorial: The award-winning Tate design at the Chelsea flower show reveals how urban spaces can be transformed by bringing art and nature together
  • Whistler's Mother shows a woman in a black dress and white headcovering sitting in profile against a grey wall

    ‘America’s Mona Lisa’: how chance, genius and cheap paint made Whistler’s Mother a masterpiece

    When his 15-year-old model did a runner, Whistler’s mother stepped in. As the triumphant result arrives in Britain, the work’s restorer writes about its creator’s brilliance – while wishing he’d used better paint

    • James McNeill Whistler review – a luscious, seductive blockbuster for the painter who scandalised Britain

    • Most famous image of JMW Turner not a self-portrait, says expert

    • Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets

April 2026

  • Two women in a nightclub.

    Back to the 90s: Tate exhibition to explore decade’s art and fashion

    Show curated by Edward Enninful will highlight era’s ‘do it yourself’ attitude and shift focus away from Cool Britannia
  • A crowd of people holding signs and placards.

    Tate at a turning point: new director must confront unwieldy ‘beast’ of an art institution

    As Maria Balshaw steps down after nine years, her successor at the gallery needs to forge a fresh financial and cultural path
  • Turner Prize 2026NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE. CAN ONLY BE USED IN CONTEXT ON THE TURNER PRIZE 2026 Undated handout photo issued by Tate Britain of Kira Freije, who uses metal, fabric and found materials to create sculptures, who has been shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize. The winner will be announced on December 10, 2026 at an award ceremony at MIMA. Issue date: Thursday April 23, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Robin Bernstein/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Turner prize shortlist for 2026 announced by Tate Britain

    Simeon Barclay, Tanoa Sasraku, Kira Freije and Marguerite Humeau nominated for ‘rich and diverse range of work’

March 2026

  • Karin Hindsbo

    double quotation markThe UK’s free-to-access museums are the envy of the world. Charging for entry would be a big mistake

    Karin Hindsbo
  • Hurvin Anderson. Shear Cut, 2024.

    Hurvin Anderson review – this haunted, hazy, beautiful show is like stumbling through someone’s memories

  • Two opera singers on stage against a stylised backdrop of wooded hillsides

    Tate Modern Turbine Hall to showcase David Hockney opera sets

  • Lachlan Goudie paints in Turner & Constable.

    Turner & Constable review – excellent survey of two great rivals in English painting

December 2025

  • Edward Enninful

    Edward Enninful: ‘Britain feels less tolerant now than we were in the 90s’

  • Maria Balshaw

    Maria Balshaw to step down as director of Tate after nine years

November 2025

  • Dolbadern Castle, North Wales, by Turner, and A Boat Passing a Lock, by Constable, on display at Tate Britain.

    The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways

  • Susete Almeida, the PCS union branch chair, joins Tate colleagues on the picket line in London.

    Tate staff hold week-long strike over pay amid reports of workers using food banks

  • a still from Repetitions (2022) by Morgan Quaintance.

    ‘I can frustrate you, hypnotise you, bore you’: the Jarman prize winners making archives fly

  • John Constable, The White Horse, 1819, detail © The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr

    Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog

  • Personal details of Tate galleries job applicants leaked online

  • Why I can’t judge art gallery visitors for getting snap-happy

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