Turbine Hall
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu; Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre review – the world worn down
The cavernous Turbine Hall has become a spectral memory forest as Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña mourns the destruction of the Amazon rainforest
Laura Cumming
16, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM
Cecilia Vicuña review – the most moving Tate Turbine Hall installation for years
The Chilean artist and poet has hung up huge mobiles of fraying wool, knotted rope and debris mudlarked from the Thames, as an elegy to lost language and wilful destruction
Adrian Searle
10, Oct, 2022 @3:48 PM
The Turbine Hall is back, Cerith Wyn Evans goes home and an Egyptian stone speaks – the week in art
Radical Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña takes over the Turbine, an international star returns to his Welsh roots and The British Museum unlocks hieroglyphic secrets
Jonathan Jones
07, Oct, 2022 @11:00 AM
Achim Borchardt-Hume obituary
Tate Modern curator who introduced exciting contemporary artists and illuminated the work of key historical figures
Simon Grant
06, Dec, 2021 @6:43 PM
Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall commission; Sutapa Biswas, Lumen – review
The Turbine Hall has been turned into a mesmerising giant aquarium, while colonial history spools into the present in Biswas’s wise, poetic retrospective
Laura Cumming
17, Oct, 2021 @12:00 PM
Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall review – invasion of the floating pod creatures
Attracted by human heat, Yi’s flying organisms home in on visitors and release smells – perhaps we should be glad they don’t quite fulfil their promise
Adrian Searle
11, Oct, 2021 @12:36 PM
‘I sculpt the air’ – what does scent artist Anicka Yi have in store for Tate’s Turbine Hall?
She has made art out of smells, ants, bacteria and spit. So what is the US artist about to unveil for her Turbine Hall commission? Yi, who was once a vagabond in London, takes us on an olfactory odyssey
Stuart Jeffries
06, Oct, 2021 @5:00 AM
Rembrandt smoulders, Turner blazes and gravity has a drink – the week in art
Turner sets January alight, India’s miniaturists create wonders, the third decade begins and Rembrandt’s embers feed the soul
Jonathan Jones
03, Jan, 2020 @10:57 AM
Kara Walker: Fons Americanus review – a monumental rebuke to the evils of empire
The American’s bold subversion of exultant Victorian kitsch charms even as it cuts to the quick of slavery and refuge denied
Bidisha
05, Oct, 2019 @12:00 PM
The Guardian view on Tate Modern’s new sculpture: a gift and a rebuke | Editorial
Editorial: Kara Walker’s new commission remakes the language of monuments through allusions and references to the slavery age
Editorial
04, Oct, 2019 @5:25 PM
Tate Modern fountain tells 'jarring' history of British empire
Kara Walker drew inspiration for Turbine Hall installation from Queen Victoria memorial
Lanre Bakare
30, Sep, 2019 @4:56 PM
Kara Walker Turbine Hall review – a shark-infested monument to the victims of British slavery
Tate Modern, London
The controversial American artist has made a giant fountain and filled it with sharks, tears, slave ships, stricken souls and a noose. It’s monstrous, funny, absurd – and astonishing
The controversial American artist has made a giant fountain and filled it with sharks, tears, slave ships, stricken souls and a noose. It’s monstrous, funny, absurd – and astonishing
Adrian Searle
30, Sep, 2019 @3:15 PM
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