🎨 If you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, now is the perfect time! The first major museum exhibition in the UK of Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is on display @Tate_StIves til 5 Jan, and it’s an experience you don't want to miss. 🎫 Tickets: tinyurl.com/3akt4e4d

Cats were always a part of John Craxton's life, drawing and painting them from an early age. Discover more 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/j… 'Still Life with Cat and Child' by John Craxton (1922–2009) © estate of John Craxton. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. 📷 @Tate

Now open at Tate Modern! Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet. 🤖 💽 Discover how artists imagined the future using machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s, in one of Tate Modern’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. #ElectricDreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet is open at Tate Modern until 1 June 2025. Members go free. bit.ly/419gJHw In partnership with @gucci Supported by Anthropic

Now open at Tate Modern! Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet. 🤖 💽 Discover how artists imagined the future using machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s, in one of Tate Modern’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. #ElectricDreams: Art and Technology Before The Internet is open at Tate Modern until 1 June 2025. Members go free. bit.ly/419gJHw In partnership with @gucci Supported by Anthropic

Photo dump – Tate Modern Lates 📸 🏭 🎨 🥂 Have you made it to one of this year’s #TateModernLates? This Friday 29 November will be our last one of 2024! Make sure to join us for an evening of free music, artist-led workshops, talks, film and more as we celebrate the opening of #ElectricDreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet. Tate Modern Lates in partnership with Swatch. bit.ly/3B0tCsB

Meet Mikei Hall, our Senior Art Handler at Tate! 📦 We caught up with Mikei and asked him about his work on Alvaro Barrington’s current Tate Britain installation, GRACE. Barrington’s work draws inspiration from personal memories, spanning time and place – from the sound of a thunderstorm pounding on the corrugated tin roof of his grandmother’s Caribbean home, to the vibrant energy of Carnival. See Alvaro Barrington: GRACE at Tate Britain today, open until 26 January 2025. Entry is free, no ticket needed. 🎨 🌈 🎶 bit.ly/4ezPQzA

The 80s: Photographing Britain is now open! 🏛️ 📷 Explore powerful and iconic photography defined by the social and political change of the 1980s. This landmark exhibition is the largest survey of its kind ever presented, featuring over 70 lens-based artists and bringing together nearly 350 images and archive materials from the period. On until 5 May 2025, book your tickets today. 🎟️ bit.ly/3ZiOEvS

Something’s happening, happening to me… 🎶 📷 A little behind-the-scenes from our upcoming Tate Britain exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain, opening this Thursday. Explore powerful photography in a decade of social and political change, and journey through the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and activism. 📸 The 80s: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain, 21 November 2024 – 5 May 2025. Members go free 🎟️ bit.ly/3YW6epM

Scorpio artists - watch out, they might sting 🦂 ⚠️ 🗡️ Robert Mapplethorpe, Snakeman, 1981 🩸 Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Self-Portrait with Blood), 1973 💀 William Hogarth, Death Giving George Taylor a Cross-Buttock, unknown date 🐝 Tacita Dean, Wasp, 2000

One for the Shakespeare buffs 🎭 📜 🎨 This painting by John Everett Millais is of Mariana, a character from Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. The story goes that Mariana’s fiancé Angelo leaves after her family’s money is lost in a shipwreck. Still in love with him, she hopes they will be reunited. Millais shows Mariana pausing to stretch her back after working at some embroidery, with the autumn leaves scattered on the ground marking the passage of time. The stained-glass windows in front of her show the Annunciation, contrasting the Virgin's fulfilment with Mariana's frustration and longing. Millais copied the scene from the window of the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford. The painting was originally exhibited with lines from Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘Mariana’, which was also inspired by the play. "She only said, 'My life is dreary – He cometh not!’ she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary – I would that I were dead!'" 🎨 bit.ly/3Cp3vMx

Painting is the most marvellous activity humans have invented’ – Frank Auerbach We are deeply saddened to hear that Frank Auerbach has died. Auerbach’s paintings have been described as some of the most resonant, inventive and perpetually alive works of art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since his early works, his intentions have been consistent: ‘To record the life that seemed to me to be passionate and exciting and disappearing all the time’. 🎨 Frank Auerbach, Head of E.O.W. I, 1960 © Frank Auerbach

Can’t decide if you’re staying in or going out? 👒 💭 Take a look at our upcoming November events to help you choose ➡️ bit.ly/40NMwxc 🎨 Edward Le Bas, Saloon Bar, 1940. Tate Collection

William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697 ✏️ The English painter, engraver and cartoonist is best known for his satirical, moralising engravings which tell stories of the moral decline of the characters. In this print 'Gin Lane', Hogarth shows his dramatic vision of the consequences of gin drinking. Cheap gin was a problem in London’s poorer districts at the time. Unregulated and very strong, it was also often mixed with dangerous substances like turpentine. The detailed engraving shows a scene of violence, neglect, disease and death and was produced in support of the Gin Act of 1751 which significantly reduced the number of gin shops. The print was contrasted with another print by Hogarth called 'Beer Street', which is a thriving scene showing the benefits of drinking beer. 🔎 Gin Lane, 1751. On free display at Tate Britain bit.ly/4hHXudK

‘I was invited to make a piece of work about the First World War. I had always wanted to go to the poppy factory in Richmond, London. Artificial poppies have been made there since 1922. When I visited the factory, I saw this machine that had rolls of red paper with perforations where the poppies had been punched out. The fact that the poppies are absent is poignant, because obviously a lot of people didn’t come back from the First World War, and other wars since. In the artwork there’s something like 300,000 holes, and there’s many more lives lost than that.' - Cornelia Parker These photos were taken inside Cornelia Parker’s 'War Room' from her Tate Britain exhibition in 2022. #RemembranceSunday

What artworks did you grow up with? 🖼️ 🎨 Howard Hodgkin, Girl on a Sofa, 1968 © Howard Hodgkin bit.ly/4fAYoXK

Coming soon to Tate Modern, The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh – Walk the House. Discover Suh’s captivating works in this major survey exhibition opening summer 2025. Immerse yourself in the artist’s inventive and unique practice, from large-scale installations on show for the first time, to sculpture, video and drawings, opening 1 May 2025. The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh – Walk the House in partnership with Genesis ➡️ bit.ly/4bQYnNM 📷 Do Ho Suh, Hub series, Installation View at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2022. Photography by Jessica Maurer. Courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London, and Victoria Miro, London and Venice. © Do Ho Suh

Where do you dream of travelling to? 🌍 Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky's photograph of the mountains in Hagengut, Austria. 🏔️ bit.ly/30YPQF6

Alex Katz's autumnal snapshot of a clear blue sky through the trees is our #WorkOfTheWeek. Painted from life, the sprawling black lines of the branches reveal the artist’s interest in the drip paintings of American artist Jackson Pollock. Measuring only 30cm wide, Katz's small oil paintings often were intended to be scaled up into larger works, but their economic execution and visible brushstrokes reveal an intimate side to his practice. 🎨 bit.ly/3YASY8k

American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was born #OnThisDay 1946. 📷 In this self-portrait, Mapplethorpe is no longer playing a role, as he did in so many of his earlier self-portraits. It was taken a few months before he died from an AIDS-related illness in 1989. In the photograph Mapplethorpe looks straight ahead, as if looking death in the face, and he photographs his head very slightly out of focus (compared with his hand) to suggest a gradual fading away. 📷 bit.ly/48xL9og

John Constable painted this view over the ocean on a family trip to Brighton around New Year in 1826. It’s one of his only oil sketches completed outdoors in winter. 🏞️ On an earlier visit to Brighton, the landscape painter had admired ‘the magnificence of the sea’. He later wrote how seabirds – some of which are included here – ‘add to the wildness and to the sentiment of melancholy always attendant on the ocean’. ​ ​🌊 John Constable, The Sea near Brighton, 1826. Tate Collection