How many tate galleries are there in the uk

Jeremy Corbyn addressing the protest outside Tate Modern, Other artists are coming forward to voice their support for the strikers, with a second open letter from more than UK-based art educators published earlier this week. And then, when it came to this point, what hurt most was that it was just business as usual. Main image: Tate Strike, Courtesy: Tate United; photograph: Juliane Sonntag. Chris Sharratt is a freelance writer and editor based in Glasgow.

Follow him on Twitter: chrissharratt. Curator Attilia Fattori Franchini and others reflect on the pioneering collaboration, which has seen a diverse range of commissions, including this year's installation by Madeline Hollander. Galleries were awarded for their outstanding presentations in the main and Focus sections of this year's fair. At Track 16, Los Angeles, the artist presents a collection of orientalist-inspired works that poignantly address current issues of race and misogyny in the US.

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Current Vacancies View our current roles and log-in to your account. Diversity and Inclusion Read about our strategy and action plan to enable us to meet our diversity and inclusion aims. Business services Left Right. Funded by art dealer and benefactor Lord Duveen and designed by architects John Russell Pope, WH Romaine-Walker and Gilbert Jenkins, they opened in as the first public galleries in England specifically devised for the display of sculpture. Having worked on the very first commission made by Mona Hatoum in , she feels closely connected with the Duveen Galleries, which form the central spine of the museum.

At first glance, the two corridor-like ft-long galleries, which meet in an octagonal room in the middle, seem fairly inflexible. And yet, each of the artists invited to fill the space for six months has responded to the setting with something wholly original. Mike Nelson, for instance, transformed the neoclassical galleries into a majestic yet melancholy salvage yard rich in political, cultural and social meaning.

As well as responding to both the barrel-vaulted space and its history, several commissions have spoken to the moment. Wallinger had been interested in the man protesting against the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq for some time, and when the police removed his rambling wall of banners and information boards, the artist made a replica and reinstated it in the public galleries under the title State Britain Phyllida Barlow responded to the invitation with the largest installation she had ever made.

Structures cobbled together from cardboard, timber, Styrofoam and tape were suspended or launched, not exactly floating but in a state of non-arrival. Like most of the artists I speak to, Barlow was familiar with the Duveen Galleries.

At the heart of the museum, the Duveen Galleries are seen by virtually everybody who comes to Tate Britain. Instead, you have to coax the best out of it. South Londoner Anthea Hamilton combined sculpture, installation and performance in her commission, The Squash. She dressed each performer in a dazzling costume complete with a gourd head, and placed sculptures from the Tate collection on structures made from the same tiles as deflections.