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NOW OPEN 📢 TRACEY EMIN: A SECOND LIFE

Step into the tender world of Tracey Emin in her landmark exhibition at Tate Modern. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, trace over 40 years of Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before.

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🗓️ Until 31 August 2026
📍 Tate Modern

In partnership with @gucci

Love making, recovery, and intimacy, all combine in a vessel, open and tender.

A rare chance to see all of the elements that make up Tracey Emin’s iconic 1998 work, ‘My Bed’, with @wellerharry (Creative Director @traceyeminstudio). Experience the artwork in our upcoming Tate Modern exhibition, opening next week.

TRACEY EMIN: A SECOND LIFE
🗓️ Opens Friday 27 February
📍 Tate Modern
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Tracey Emin’s iconic neon works have taken over London! From Lambeth and Croydon to Walthamstow and Tower Hamlets, encounter Emin’s poignant and poetic declarations in 22 locations across 11 boroughs until 9 March, thanks to a collaboration with Jack Arts.

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🎟️ Tracey Emin: A Second Life opens at Tate Modern on 27 Feb. Book your tickets today, Members go free

What are your plans for the long weekend? 🏸 🌳

Step into the world of David Inshaw’s 'The Badminton Game', where love, loss, and time converge in a vibrant, tranquil landscape. Inspired by Inshaw’s life in Devizes and the poetry of Thomas Hardy, the painting captures a fleeting instant full of emotion.

In Inshaw’s own words: 'I think my main aim was to produce a picture that held a moment in time, but unlike a photograph, which only records an event. I thought a painting could give a more universal deeper meaning to that moment, by composing one instant from a lot of different unrelated moments... I changed everything I used in the picture in order to increase the mystery and wonder I felt all around me in this magic place.' ✨
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​🖼️ David Inshaw, The Badminton Game 1972–3 Tate Collection. Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980 © David Inshaw. All Rights Reserved 2020 / Bridgeman Images

NOW OPEN 🐚 Aleksandra Kasuba: Shelter for the Senses

Explore the work of visionary Lithuanian-American artist, Aleksandra Kasuba now open at Tate St Ives.

The exhibition spans seven decades of work, exploring Kasuba’s artistic journey, from her early paintings and mosaics to her later sculptures and architectural designs. Her love of the natural world is clear throughout her work, which was often inspired by the shapes and forms of nature, such as shells, rocks, vegetation and marine life.

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📆 2 May – 4 October 2026
📍Tate St Ives

This exhibition is organised by Tate St Ives in collaboration with the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.

Photographs: from Digital Archive of Aleksandra Kasuba, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art

📷 Some of the 21 structures Kasuba and two assistants made during a fellowshop from the National Endowment for the Arts 1983

📷 Shaping the Future, inaugural exhibition at the Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, featuring Kasuba’s Family of Shells 1990

📷 Kasuba’s students from School of Visual Arts building The Cocoon at Whiz Bang Quick City 2, Woodstock, New York 1972

🌈 Aleksandra Kasuba Spectrum, An Afterthought 1975/2014

It is with great sadness that we share that Georg Baselitz has died.

Baselitz was at the forefront of European Neo-Expressionist painting from the 1960s onwards. His vigorous and expressive style had been characteristic of the artist’s practice for over six decades. Talking about his work he said, ‘I always work out of uncertainty, but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.’

In the mid-1960s, Baselitz embarked on a series of paintings depicting male figures that dominate the space of the picture. While they bear some relation to the heroic figures of Social Realist art, they were also portrayed as wounded or dishevelled. According to the artist, this figure holds the pole of a flag in one hand, while the other hand is bandaged. Details such as the burning house appear in other works in the series. 'I was concerned with a very direct, almost illustrative method of representation.'

🎨 Georg Baselitz, Rebel, 1965 © Georg Baselitz. Tate Collection. Purchased 1982

🌅 Opening soon at Tate Britain: James McNeill Whistler 🏞️

Explore the captivating world of Whistler in the first major European exhibition of his work in 30 years – bringing together the artist’s world-famous paintings alongside rarely, or never seen, portraits, drawings, prints, and designs.

Immerse yourself in Whistler’s astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life that would earn him a place as one of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Boldly experimental, he disrupted the conventions of Victorian society in pursuit of truth, beauty, and progress, rewriting the rules of what it meant to be an artist.

🎟️ Whistler opens at Tate Britain on 21 May 2026 until 27 Sept 2026. Book your tickets now, Members go free

🎨 James McNeill Whistler, Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green: Valparaiso, 1866 Tate Collection. Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1940

International Dance Day 🌟 👠

#GetToKnow Belgian surrealist Marcel Mariën (1920-1993). He published the first written study about Rene Magritte in 1943 and became the principal historian of the Belgian surrealist group, as well as an associate of the Situationists.

In his own photographs, collages and assemblages, Mariën continued the surrealist tradition of making unexpected combinations of objects to reveal hidden or poetic meanings. In Star Dancer, the addition of a toy shoe creates a visual rhyme between a starfish and the leg of a dancer.

⭐ Marcel Mariën, Star Dancer 1991 © DACS, 2026. Presented by the artist's estate 2005

Happy Birthday Yves Klein (1928-1962), born #OnThisDay 💙

That vivid blue in the second slide? It was developed by Klein himself. He called it International Klein Blue, or IKB. But why invent a colour?

In 1947, while on holiday in Nice, young Klein and two of his artist friends decided to divide up the world between them. One would take the land, another the air and the last would take the sky. Klein saw the sky as a place where an artist could be free to think their own thoughts without being influenced by what people thought on the ground. He made the first photograph to show us how free we might be if we could leap into space, and IKB was the colour he imagined pure space might be.

📷 Image 1: Yves Klein, Leap into the Void 1960 © Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris, Photo: Shunk–Kender © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

🔵 Image 2: Yves Klein, IKB 79 (1959), Tate Collection, purchased 1972 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2026

📷 Image 3: Harry Shunk, 1924-2006 and János Kender, 1938–2009 Yves Klein, The Dream of Fire c.1961 Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender photographs. Artistic action by Yves Klein © Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris / DACS, London, 2016. Collaboration Harry Shunk and János Kender. Photograph: Shunk-Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.R.20)

Want to learn more? Head to our #TateKids webpage for a closer look at Yves Klein 🔗

Happy Birthday Yves Klein (1928-1962), born #OnThisDay 💙

That vivid blue in the second slide? It was developed by Klein himself. He called it International Klein Blue, or IKB. But why invent a colour?

In 1947, while on holiday in Nice, young Klein and two of his artist friends decided to divide up the world between them. One would take the land, another the air and the last would take the sky. Klein saw the sky as a place where an artist could be free to think their own thoughts without being influenced by what people thought on the ground. He made the first photograph to show us how free we might be if we could leap into space, and IKB was the colour he imagined pure space might be.

📷 Image 1: Yves Klein, Leap into the Void 1960 © Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris, Photo: Shunk–Kender © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

🔵 Image 2: Yves Klein, IKB 79 (1959), Tate Collection, purchased 1972 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2026

📷 Image 3: Harry Shunk, 1924-2006 and János Kender, 1938–2009 Yves Klein, The Dream of Fire c.1961 Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender photographs. Artistic action by Yves Klein © Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris / DACS, London, 2016. Collaboration Harry Shunk and János Kender. Photograph: Shunk-Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.R.20)

Want to learn more? Head to our #TateKids webpage for a closer look at Yves Klein 🔗

Happy Birthday Yves Klein (1928-1962), born #OnThisDay 💙

That vivid blue in the second slide? It was developed by Klein himself. He called it International Klein Blue, or IKB. But why invent a colour?

In 1947, while on holiday in Nice, young Klein and two of his artist friends decided to divide up the world between them. One would take the land, another the air and the last would take the sky. Klein saw the sky as a place where an artist could be free to think their own thoughts without being influenced by what people thought on the ground. He made the first photograph to show us how free we might be if we could leap into space, and IKB was the colour he imagined pure space might be.

📷 Image 1: Yves Klein, Leap into the Void 1960 © Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris, Photo: Shunk–Kender © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

🔵 Image 2: Yves Klein, IKB 79 (1959), Tate Collection, purchased 1972 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2026

📷 Image 3: Harry Shunk, 1924-2006 and János Kender, 1938–2009 Yves Klein, The Dream of Fire c.1961 Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender photographs. Artistic action by Yves Klein © Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris / DACS, London, 2016. Collaboration Harry Shunk and János Kender. Photograph: Shunk-Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.R.20)

Want to learn more? Head to our #TateKids webpage for a closer look at Yves Klein 🔗

Coming at you faster than your old dial-up, tickets are now on sale for our upcoming Tate Britain exhibition, #The90s: Art and Fashion! ✨

Curated by fashion industry game changer Edward Enninful, dive into the audacious and rebellious decade of the 90s as we bring together around 70 artists, photographers and designers, from the Young British Artists (YBAs) to Alexander McQueen. This October, relive a defining period of creativity so iconic, it changed the face of British culture forever. 💅

The 90s: Art and Fashion at Tate Britain opens 8 October 2026. Book your tickets today, Members go free. 🎟️

📸 Juergen Teller, Young Pink Kate, London 1998 © Juergen Teller, All rights Reserved

To everyone taking part in today’s London Marathon, we wish you speed, smiles and lots of luck! 🐦 🏃

📸Unknown artist, Trafalgar Square Take-off, 1974. Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2017

'Painting... It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.' - Cy Twombly, born #OnThisDay in 1928.

In the 1950s, Twombly (1928–2011) wrote that the act of painting could come out of ‘one ecstatic impulse’. The swirls of paint in this work, made 50 years later when the artist was 80, convey a similar intensity. It was made with a brush attached to the end of a pole, enabling Twombly to capture the energy of an unbroken movement across a large canvas (3 x 4.6 meters). The brush was soaked in paint, which dripped down the canvas, its red colour evoking both wine and blood. This work is titled after Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and intoxication, whose rituals involved drunkenness and joyful dancing.
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​🔴 Cy Twombly, Untitled (Bacchus) 2008 © Cy Twombly Foundation. Presented by the Cy Twombly Foundation 2014