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NEWS ABOUT: Tate Gallery

Tate Gallery stories: 3 news summaries

 Turner Prize Nods 
 Include Crystal Cave 

Four artists up for $36,000 art prize

Apr 28, 09 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A diverse quartet of artists has been nominated for this year's Turner Prize, one of the art world's most visible awards. Two artists from London and two from Glasgow are up for the UK prize, which comes with a $36,000 purse. They will exhibit their work, which runs the... More »

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United Kingdom • art • Tate Gallery • awards • artist • Turner Prize

 Hockney Donates
 40-Footer to Tate 

Enormous work would have fetched millions on open market

Apr 8, 08 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Hockney has donated his largest-ever painting to London's Tate museum rather than sell it for a presumed price of several million dollars, reports the Times of London. Hockney, one of the world's foremost figurative painters, said donating the 40-foot-long Bigger Trees Near Warter was a "duty," and... More »

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philanthropy • London • art • Tate Gallery • David Hockney • Bigger Trees Near Warter • art donations

Bubbles Painter Washed Up
No Longer

Britain's Tate plans retrospective on soapy artist Millais

May 16, 07 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - London's Tate Britain gallery is trying to rescue the cred of a Victorian painter whose best known work is synonymous with crass commercialism. Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais is best known for Bubbles, which he sold to the Pears Soap company to make it one of the most reproduced images in... More »

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London • art • Tate Gallery • John Everett Millais • painting

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