Curator, writer, co-editor Picpus magazine
Joined December 2009
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13 May 2024
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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17 Jun 2023
EXCLUSIVE: First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules
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24 May 2023
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
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28 Apr 2023
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
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5 Jul 2022
Sunak & Javid resign. Come on Boris, your turn next. For the good of the nation #rishisunak #sajidjavid #borisresign #borismustgo
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1 Jul 2022
Ground Force – @simoncgrant on the artists who have tried to outdo nature apollo-magazine.com/botanica…
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24 Jun 2022
Great by-election news in Wakefield & Tiverton. And Boris hiding in Rwanda. #byelection2022
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6 Jun 2022
BREAKING: Boris Johnson to face vote of no confidence - Tory MPs have just been sent this 👇🏼
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30 May 2022
Britta Marakatt-Labba’s @ikongallery show explores how the Sámi people, indigenous to Scandinavia, have experienced & resisted colonialism & climate change. ‘Garjját/The Crows’ (1981/2021, details) documents protests against the expansion of a Norwegian hydropower plant in Áltá.
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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
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7 May 2021
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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