Curator, writer, co-editor Picpus magazine
Joined December 2009
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Please join us at Worcester College Oxford tomorrow for a talk about the resurgence of magazines in the digital era #picpuspress #visualartsworcester
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EXCLUSIVE: First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules
According to PEN America, 565 books were banned in Florida schools in the 2021-22 school year. A sick state of affairs.
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📢 We're excited to announce that Karin Hindsbo will be the next Director of #TateModern! Karin is currently the Director of @NasjonalMuseet and will join us in September 2023. 🏭
Welcome to Tate, @KarinHindsbo!
ALT Portrait of a woman smiling inside a gallery
Karin Hindsbo a great appointment as new director of @tate Modern. She comes from overseeing the consolidation of four Norwegian art institutions into the National Museum in Oslo. #tate #karenhindsbo @KarinHindsbo
Sunak & Javid resign. Come on Boris, your turn next. For the good of the nation #rishisunak #sajidjavid #borisresign #borismustgo
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Ground Force – @simoncgrant on the artists who have tried to outdo nature apollo-magazine.com/botanica…
Great by-election news in Wakefield & Tiverton. And Boris hiding in Rwanda. #byelection2022
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson to face vote of no confidence - Tory MPs have just been sent this 👇🏼
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📢 JUST ANNOUNCED: Our 2022 exhibitions!
💥Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain
👁️#SurrealismBeyondBorders at Tate Modern
🍃Thao Nguyen Phan @Tate_StIves
🏆#TurnerPrize @TateLiverpool
🖌️Walter Sickert at Tate Britain
🟡Ad Minoliti @Tate_StIves
Full line-up: bit.ly/2Whgk6e
ALT An installation of an exploded shed by Cornelia Parker
ALT A surrealist self-portrait by Leonora Carrington
ALT A video still featuring a girl sitting in a hammock by Thao Nguyen Phan
ALT A rainbow coloured sculpture outside Tate Liverpool
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We're taking a #MuseumStaycation! Stay-cay with us as we step into some of the sunny scenes you can see for free in our favourite UK museums this summer...
⛱️ Build sandcastles with Philip Wilson Steer’s 'Boulogne Sands' at Tate Britain! bit.ly/3kOblo4 #LetsDoLondon
ALT women building a sandcastle
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🔥 Watch @TateCollective's latest 'Reframed' session. 🔥 Inspired by Samuel Fosso's 'African Spirits' photo series, @steamdown performed a live version of their track ‘Empower’ at Tate Modern. See the full performance & behind-the-scenes interview here: bit.ly/364H77I
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🔥 Hot, hot! 🔥 @TateCollective recently launched 'Reframed', a project that combines art & music in powerful outcomes. Channeling Linder's subversive collages, @BreeRunway performs 'Hot Hot' at Tate Modern. 🔥 Watch the full performance here: bit.ly/2S2gJrD
Tate Britain announced the shortlist for Turner Prize 2021: Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works. Exhibition at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry from 29 September. #turnerprize #tate @Tate
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There's a leafy sculpture outside Tate Modern! Inspired by artist & environmental activist Joseph Beuys (1921-86), artists Ackroyd & Harvey have installed a living sculpture of 100 oak trees—a place for gathering & rethinking our connections with nature.🌱 bit.ly/2PSCMQw
ALT A close view of trees growing outside Tate Modern
ALT A man and a woman, artists Ackroyd and Harvey, looking at a tree, wearing green coats
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#WorkOfTheWeek, by Barkley L. Hendricks, is a portrait of his good friend George Jules Taylor, or 'Jules' as he was known to Hendricks. Their friendship lasted until Jules’ death in 1984, ten years after this painting was made.
See Jules @TateLiverpool, when the gallery reopens.
ALT A painting of a nude man reclining on a white sofa