32 h. ago Tate Modern given Joan Mitchell work in biggest donation since 1969

Miami billionaire couple part with triptych by late abstract expressionist that previously hung in their bedroomTate Modern has announced its most significant single donation in more than 50 years, a monumental triptych by the American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell that she named after her German shepherd dog, Iva.The huge 6-metre work, painted by Mitchell in 1973, was given to Britain’s national art collection by the billionaire Miami real estate magnate Jorge M Pérez and his wife, Darlene. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Miami philanthropists donate an American masterpiece to Britain's Tate Modern

Britain’s Tate Modern art museum has unveiled one of the most significant gifts it has received in years

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35 h. ago Tate director urges British art collectors to be more philanthropic as US tycoon gifts masterpiece

Gallery unveiled new multi-million pound painting donated by Miami businessman

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5 d. ago Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse? | Barbara Ellen

Ono was blamed for splitting the Beatles and taking John Lennon from his true calling. Let’s hope things are getting easier for women who date famous musiciansMore than 50 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in, protesting against war, Ono finally gets her love-in. David Sheff’s biography Yoko, published last week, seeks to put the record straight about her stellar achievements as an internationally renowned conceptual artist.In recent years there have been retrospectives, including one at London’s Tate Modern. Kevin Macdonald’s docufilm, One To One: John And Yoko, is released in the UK next month. Ono, 92, is seeing reputational rehabilitation on a global scale, and all a long time coming. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Russell Tovey's My London: the Tate Modern, hidden streets and Hatchards

Russell Tovey's My London: the Tate Modern, hidden streets and Hatchards  Evening Standard

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7 d. ago Russell Tovey's My London: the Tate Modern, hidden streets and the London Eye

The actor shops at Stone Island, dines at 45 Jermyn Street and strolls the Thames beaches

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2 w. ago Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other review – compelling portrait of a passionate marriage

From serious injury and coping with different levels of fame to resentment and ping-pong – a powerful insight into a life shared by two charismatic creativesIt’s hard not to wonder why this excellent documentary about an older married couple – writer and artist Maggie Barrett and photographer Joel Meyerowitz – is getting released just as Meyerowitz’s Tate Modern show is coming to end; you’d think there would be an overlap, if only to enhance traffic to both. Certainly, having got to know affable, driven, sweet-tempered Joel personally in this intimate portrait, it’s a natural desire to want to see even more of his extraordinary work: 60 years of photographs encompassing street photography, official documentation of the 9/11 disaster site in New York, still lifes and more.At the same time, it’s also entirely apt that this feature isn’t just an adjunct to Meyerowitz’s career, given it is so profoundly about Joel and Maggie’s marriage, a kind of passionate truce (as its title suggests)...

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