Tate Modern

The Tate Modern - a large art deco brick building with a chimney The Tate Modern - a large art deco brick building with a chimney
Photo by me, no I am not an artist

Modern art gallery set in a converted power station with a viewing gallery over the Thames.

Free - some paid exhibitions

www.tate.org.uk

Review

If you’re seriously into modern art you already know you’ll like the Tate Modern. It has it all: Stark white rooms, a hushed atmosphere of reverence, tiny explanatory notices to read earnestly.

Still, even if your interest in visiting is perhaps more to do with the café than the pieces themselves I think the Tate Modern is still worth a look.

Modern art may sometimes be baffling but it is always interesting, and I liked that I was never sure what I was going to come across next. I can’t say that I fully understood the miniature television containing an egg, but I’m also not sure that I regret trying.

Exhibitions

Gathering Ground

This exhibition merges art with themes of environmental and social justice, showcasing artists who focus on Indigenous knowledge and ecological issues.

Free

Until

Modern Art Activism

Theatre Picasso

Picasso found real inspiration in people like dancers and bullfighters, using their world to shape his own image, as shown through over 45 of his works.

£14.00

Begins

Modern Art

Nigerian Modernism

A look at how over 50 artists worked before and after Nigeria’s independence, mixing local and European styles in painting, sculpture, textiles and poetry.

£18.00

Begins

Modern Art