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Tate Modern is 10
Tate Modern is ten on 12 May 2010. Over 45 million visitors have passed through the gallery’s doors since it first opened to the public ten years ago and Tate Modern is the world’s most visited gallery of modern art and is one of the UK’s top three free tourist attractions. Over the last ten years, Tate Modern has presented 52 exhibitions, staged over 135 performances, held around 400 film screenings, mounted ten Unilever Commissions and hosted one million school visits. Almost 3.5 million people have taken part in the gallery’s learning programme. Tate Modern contributes over £100 million in economic benefits to London annually. Tate is Transforming Tate Modern with a major building project to increase the gallery and learning spaces. This is essential development of the gallery which is visited each year by around 5 million people in a building that was designed for 2 million. Tate also needs more varied spaces to show the ever-growing Collection. There will be 60% more display space in the new Tate Modern.
For the tenth anniversary, Tate Modern will build on the participatory spirit of previous projects that celebrate the iconic Turbine Hall space, which is part gallery, part covered street, by inviting No Soul For Sale, the brainchild of artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni, to bring its anarchic, tongue-in-cheek sensibility to the Turbine Hall. Tate Modern, working in collaboration with Cattelan, Alemani and Gioni, has invited over 70 independent art spaces and collectives, from Shanghai to Prague, to create unique projects for this global arts festival. No Soul For Sale will fill the Turbine Hall for three days with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge arts events, performances, music and film. The gallery will stay open until midnight on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May for late night events with special guests.
Baby Tate
Congratulations to Christen and Derek Wilson, members of our North American Acquisitions Committee, on the birth of Tate Easton Wilson on Tuesday April 6. A brother for Trinity and Truman!
New York Gallery Week is May 7-10
Celebrating the most vital gallery community in the world. New York Gallery Week will be an annual event concentrating on programmatic and artistic rigor, with a mission that aims to ignite the New York art scene and direct focus back to artists and galleries. A number of special events will be organized to celebrate NYGW including a talk by Willie Doherty at Alexander & Bonin on Saturday May 8. Please see NYGW web site for further details
Events
Tuesday May 4
Artists Dinner at the Hearst Tower, New York
Limited number of $5,000 tickets are available.
Please call 212 743 2818 if interested.
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Tate Exhibitions in May
Please click here to see a list of all exhibitions in London, Liverpool and St Ives.
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Richard Hamilton
Director
Virginia Cowles Schroth
Head of Development
Daniel Schaeffer
Development Asisstant
American Patrons of Tate
520 West 27 Street Unit 404
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212 643 2818
Fax: 212 643 1001
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