18 h. ago Tate Britain to get 'Mediterranean' gardens and outdoor classroom in major redesign

Designers behind the plans said the new layout will offer visitors ‘a sequence of experiences’

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3 d. ago The story behind the character who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia – and what it really tells us

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia (1851-52), one of the most visited paintings at Tate Britain.

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7 d. ago Lee Miller review – a dazzling, daring career from war photographer to surrealist pioneer via Hitler’s bathtub

Tate Britain, LondonAn overdue showcase of Miller’s remarkable work follows its many frenzied twists – from her unrecognised work with Man Ray to unseen gems of the Egyptian desert and unflinching glimpses of DachauUnapologetically ambitious and voraciously inventive, this vast new Lee Miller exhibition is the most comprehensive display of the late American photographer’s work ever held in the UK. It’s an overdue account of a remarkable artist whose dazzling, daring career had more than a few twists: from Vogue cover girl to Vogue photographer; from surrealists’ muse to pioneer of the movement; from commercial portraitist to war photographer.Some of Miller’s fabled work is here, including her famous self-portrait in Hitler’s bathtub, her boots – dirtied with mud from Dachau concentration camp – strewn symbolically on the floor. The exhibition builds a sense of the dizzying, sometimes frenzied energy of Miller, who could photograph fashionable hats as well as Nazis who died by suicid...

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7 d. ago Lee Miller at Tate Britain review: These images will be seared onto your retina

The largest retrospective of the artist’s work staged in the UK charts her journey from Vogue cover girl to war correspondent

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8 d. ago ‘Out on a damn limb’: the daredevil photography of Lee Miller – in pictures

A fearless war photographer, a peerless surrealist, a chronicler of Egypt and Syria a new exhibition at Tate Britain explores how Lee Miller became one of the most urgent voices of 20th-century art Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tate Britain to transform entrance with new gardens and classroom

Plans to transform the gallery’s riverside entance have been submitted to Westminster Council

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