BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : CAMDEN TOWN GROUP DRAWINGS
to Mar 18, 2012
Admission Free.
The Camden Town Group was a London-based society of sixteen artists who exhibited together three times in 1911 and 1912. The group encompassed a diverse array of styles and objectives, and ultimately disbanded due to artistic differences. Despite the brief nature of their alliance, their association heralded the absorption of European Post-Impressionism into contemporary British art, and witnessed a new desire for art to feature subjects taken from modern life. To mark the centenary of the group’s formation, this display focuses on one of their shared concerns, the important role in artistic practice of drawing.
This display has been devised by curator, Nicola Moorby, and coincides with the completion of the Camden Town Group Online Research Project, a major new online resource, supported by the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation and the Getty Foundation.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : SKYING: LOOKING AT CLOUDS
to Sep 02, 2012
Admission Free.
John Constable, best known for his preoccupation with recording clouds at different times of the day and year, once wrote "I have done a good deal of skying." Featuring the work of six Romantic artists, this display examines a range of approaches to representing atmospheric effects in landscape, from the diagrammatic exemplars of Alexander Cozens, to the Sublime, dramatic sunsets and storms of Turner.
Supported by BP

BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN EKOW ESHUN ON CHRIS OFILI
Apr 15, 2010 1:00pm talk/event
In 2005 Ekow Eshun, Artistic Director of the ICA, wrote Black Gold of the Sun, a book relating his experiences of growing up in London as a black African, and his journey to discover home and identity. At this talk, he discusses his relationship to Chris Ofili’s work, and the connection between Ofili and this book.
Tate Britain Auditorium
£5, booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/britain
or call 020 7887 8888.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS: HAS THE FILM ALREADY STARTED?
Jun 27, 2011 - Feb 26, 2012
Admission Free.

Presented in a newly re-hung suite of contemporary galleries, works by artists including Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Enrico David, Cathy Wilkes and David Musgrave will form part of an atmospheric installation.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : DON MCCULLIN
Aug 15, 2011 - Mar 4, 2012
Admission Free.
Don McCullin is internationally known as one of the greatest war photographers. His display at Tate Britain will show a broader and more diverse aspect of his documentary photography, including his depictions of the homeless in East London, a divided post-war Berlin in the 1960s and his landscapes, ranging from urban to rural scenes.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : THIN BLACK LINE(S)
Aug 22, 2011 - Mar 18, 2012
Admission Free. 

This display focuses on the contribution of Black and Asian women artists to British art in the 1980s. Taking as its starting point three seminal exhibitions curated by artist Lubaina Himid in London from 1983 to 1985, the display charts the coming to voice of a radical generation of British artists who challenged their collective invisibility in the art world and engaged in their art with the wider social and political issues of 1980s Britain and the world.

NEW VISION CENTRE, SIGNALS AND INDICA
Oct 24, 2011 - Mar 18, 2012
BP British Art Displays: Gallery One.
A look at the work of four avant garde London galleries in the 1950s and 60s, including work by Yves Klein and Hélio Oiticica.

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : RUBENS AND BRITAIN
Nov 21, 2011 - May 6, 2012
A draftsman of extraordinary imagination, energy and skill, Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was the leading Flemish exponent of baroque painting and the most successful international artist of the seventeenth century, producing works for several of Europe’s crowned heads. A new display at Tate Britain explores this artist’s connections with Britain’s monarchy and court through a group of key works including significant loans.
Supported by BP

BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS : ATLANTIC BRITAIN
Dec 5, 2011 - Nov 4, 2012
The history of British art has often been told as an ‘island story’, as if the visual arts were directly shaped by the immediate social and physical environment. The modesty and naturalism of British art has been explained with reference to a mythic ‘national character’. However, all the paintings displayed here illuminate a different history – that of the ‘Atlantic world’ which connected Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Supported by BP

MIGRATIONS
Jan 31 - Aug 12, 2012
Tate Britain, Upper Floor
£6.60 (£5.50)
Free for Members and Patrons
For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888
This exhibition will explore British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in search of new patrons, through moments of political and religious unrest, to Britain’s current position within the global landscape, the exhibition will reveal how British art has been fundamentally shaped by successive waves of migration.

PICASSO AND MODERN BRITISH ART
Feb 15 - Jul 15, 2012
Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 every Friday
For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888
In February 2012 Tate Britain will stage the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain. Picasso & Modern British Art will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. The exhibition will explore Picasso’s rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy and celebrity, tracing the ways in which his work was exhibited and collected here during his lifetime, and demonstrating that the British engagement with Picasso and his art was much deeper and more varied than generally has been appreciated.