‘Focus on the blurriness between fiction and reality’ - Lynn Hershman Leeson 🌀

Roberta Breitmore was a fictional alter ego created by Lynn Hershman Leeson in 1973. Here, this artwork shows detailed instructions on how to create Roberta’s look.

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Happy birthday to the one and only #GraceJones . 📸

For this photograph, taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, the iconic Jamaican-born singer, model and actress has been painted by the New York graffiti artist, Keith Haring, with his characteristic pictograms and decorations.

‘My work is a synthesis of these two things, a modern consciousness that incorporates our Maya past and also considers our human future’ - #AubreyWilliams 🌀

Discover Williams's artworks in our free Tate Britain display, Cosmological Abstractions ➡️ bit.ly/4aoRvpl

British artist #DonaldRodney was born #OnThisDay in 1961.

A leading figure in Britain's BLK Art Group in the 1980s, Rodney became recognised as 'one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation'.

🏠 In the House of My Father, 1996–7 bit.ly/3UNNQMh

This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek , our Managing Curator Katy Wan takes us through Pipilotti Rist's wondrous installation, where humans, animals and plants interact in mesmerising ways.

On free display at Tate Modern. 🍄 🌸 🌱 bit.ly/3UJfBW1

How do you plan to unwind this weekend? 📚 💐 🛋️

🎨 Henry Lamb, The Artist’s Wife, 1933

📚 Kicking off tomorrow Offprint London is back in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

Check out indie publishers of art, photography and graphic design, along with a series of free Tate-led talks set over the weekend!

🗓️ 17 to 19 May
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#NowYouSeeUs is open now at Tate Britain! 🎨

Discover the story of how women artists in Britain championed access to art training and broke boundaries, forging a path for generations to come.

🎟️ Book your tickets today. Until 13 October ➡️ bit.ly/3It10IG

Join us at #TateModern on 24 and 25 May, for a two-day programme exploring futures of archives that are community owned or community made. 📁

🎟️ Book here: bit.ly/3UIIF03

‘To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith.’ - Edouard Vuillard ☀️

In Vuillard's ‘Sunlit Interior’ we see the artist's mother in her bedroom at Vaucresson near Paris. Painted 1920, it is where she spent the summers with her son.

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‘What a seismic reckoning’ - The Guardian

Coming very soon to Tate Britain. Discover boundary-breaking artists in #NowYouSeeUs : Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920, opening this Thursday 16 May. 🎨

Book your tickets today 🎟️ bit.ly/3It10IG

In partnership with Lockton

Yoko Ono is renowned for her versatile artistic practice including conceptual and performance art, experimental film and music.

A new display at Tate Modern explores some of her most well-known works.

Until 1 September: tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-…

#ThomasGainsborough was a dog dad. 🐶
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​Born #OnThisDay 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, Gainsborough had a deep love of dogs, including them in many of his commissioned paintings. This 1775 painting though, shows the artist's own pets, Tristram and Fox.

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This week, we'll find out if The Wild Escape has won Sustainable Project of the Year award at Museums + Heritage Show & Awards! To celebrate being shortlisted, we wanted to share some of the project's incredible highlights. 🌿👇

#MandHAwards2024

📷: Hydar Dewachi/Art Fund

Another year, another successful tour of the Art Explora Mobile Museum! 🚌✅

Following its tour of the Liverpool City Region, the Mobile Museum (Art Explora, MuMo, Musée mobile) has taken masterpieces from Tate’s national collection to communities in... 1/3

It's #PoetryPrompts time, and this week Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho is laureating! is getting inspiration from the amazing Story Space at Tate Britain!

He's written a mini story poem - and now it's your turn 👇

booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/chi… Tate Kids

Good morning Monday 🌞 Here's a sun-filled black and white collection to start the week. ◼◽

📷 Dorothy Bohm, Paris 1970
📷 René Burri, Brasilia, Brazil, 1960
📷 Lisette Model, French gambler, 1934
📷 Wolfgang Suschitzky, Charing Cross Road c.1936

🔵 🟨 🔺 🔶 🟣 🟩 A celebration of colour for the weekend! Which is your favourite? ❤️

🔶 Jack Bush, Colour Column on Suede 1965
​🎨 Gillian Ayres OBE, Distillation 1957
​🟩 Frank Bowling, Sacha Jason Guyana Dreams 1989
❤️ Sylvia Edwards, Blue Violet Flight 1987

Joseph Beuys was born on this day in 1921!

You can view Beuys's installation, Lightning with Stag in its Glare, 1958–85 at Tate Modern, as part of a unique pairing with Jenny Holzer's Blue Purple Tilt, in the free display: ARTIST AND SOCIETY.

tate.org.uk/visit/tate-mod…

For #TateModern ’s birthday today, we’re taking a stroll down memory lane! 🎈

What works have really stayed with you over the years? ❤️ bit.ly/3wyFD6n