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Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock Liverpool, North West L3 4BBt : view phone0151 702 7400
Description
Tate Liverpool presents displays of work from the Tate collection alongside special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The special exhibition programme, presented on the Gallery’s fourth floor, brings together works from national and international collections, both public and private.
Since the gallery opened in 1988, Tate Liverpool has presented over 150 different exhibitions and collection displays of work by hundreds of different artists, some seen for the first time in the UK at Tate Liverpool. Major exhibitions in the past five years include Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture (2002-03), Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (2005), Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People (2006-7), Peter Blake: A Retrospective (2007) and The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China (2007). Tate Liverpool continues to play an active role in the Liverpool Biennial.
Tate Liverpool has an established reputation for working with, and touring exhibitions to international institutions as far afield as France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, United States, Canada, Ireland, Korea, Austria, Italy and Japan, as well as other institutions within the UK.
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
Exhibition: 29 January - 25 April, 2010
Private View: , 10:00 am - 05:50 pm
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This major exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of Black Atlantic culture on Modernism and will reveal how the journeys made by those of Black African descent have played a central role in the formation of Modernism.
Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals
Exhibition: 2 October - 21 March, 2010
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Modern Art at the Tate. Radical Art, Radical Thinking.
Exhibition: 19 January - 23 March, 2010
Private View: , 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture
Exhibition: 1 May - 11 April, 2010
Private View: , 10:00 am - 05:50 pm
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Modern Art Remixed: Exploring Modern and Contemporary Art. Term Two: Beyond the Myth
Exhibition: 26 January - 30 March, 2010
Private View: , 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
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This dynamic new introductory course offers a fresh and insightful look at modern and contemporary art, examining the developments, theories, concepts and myths that have shaped modern art over the last 100 years from a variety of perspectives.
Artist Talk: Mark Leckey
14 January - 14 January, 2010
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Winner of the Turner Prize in 2008, Mark Leckey combines sculpture, film, sound and performance in works that comment on modern life and popular culture. Leckey will speak about the influence growing up in Merseyside has had on his work.
Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely
2 October - 10 January, 2010
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This exciting exhibition will focus upon the connection between the work of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most radical sculptors of the mid twentieth-century, and renowned British artist Michael Landy.
Carolee Schneemann: Precarious
23 September - 27 September, 2009
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Tate Liverpool presents an exhibition by the pioneering performance artist Carolee Schneemann (born 1939), as part of the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival. Schneemann will premiere Precarious, a multi-screen video installation.
Hear from the Co-Curator. Tim Etchells: Performing Scupture
29 October - 29 October, 2009
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Tim Etchells, artist, writer and Artistic Director of celebrated theatre company Forced Entertainment, will lead an intriguing tour of the galleries he has co-curated as part of the new Collection display The DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture.
Hear from the co-curator. Wayne Hemingway: Sculpture Remixed
12 November - 12 November, 2009
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Join Wayne Hemingway as he talks through his approach to creating the radical new space in the latest Tate Collection display The DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, which has transformed the gallery into a real life silent disco.
Late at Tate. Magic Mirror Ball
26 November - 26 November, 2009
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1970s Club Night, Fancy dress An event by and for adults with a learning disability and anyone who loves 70's disco. Dance the night away at this arty party, get down with our resident DJs, experience live magic, take a tour of the gallery, or relax.
Rothko and Tate: A Long-term Relationship
22 October - 22 October, 2009
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Achim Borchardt-Hume, formerly of Tate Modern where he was responsible for curating the recent Rothko exhibition, explores Rothko's enigmatic paintings through Tate’s own history in this unique talk.
Lunchtime Lectures
22 September - 24 November, 2009
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This series of lunchtime lectures examines the way the artist has been represented from the Renaissance to the present day through looking at autobiographies, letters, writing and film. Led by Emma Roberts, Liverpool School of Art and Design.
The Big Draw: Joyous Machines
24 October - 31 October, 2009
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Taking inspiration from the exhibition Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, visitors are invited to bring in their old wind-up and battery-powered toys and transform them into their own drawing machines.
Adult Course. This is Sculpture
24 October - 24 October, 2009
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This one day course explores the extensive new Tate Collection display of modern sculpture ranging from 19th century figurative work to contemporary installations.
Late at Tate. The Seagram Murals: Sound Reflections
22 October - 22 October, 2009
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In this Late at Tate celebrating the return of Rothko's Seagram Murals to Tate Liverpool for the first time in 20 years, Achim Borchardt-Hume, formerly of Tate Modern, explores the Seagram Murals through Tate's own history in a unique talk.
Adult Course. Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals
7 November - 7 November, 2009
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This one day course offers students the opportunity to study Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals. The course will use these late works as a starting point to trace Rothko’s relationship with American Abstract Expressionism.
Night of the Machine
31 October - 31 October, 2009
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Young people take over the galleries after hours for the evening of Hallowe'en. Young Tate’s event for the Joyous Machines exhibition brings live bands, interactive art and of course wondrous costumes. Expect to find the galleries transformed!
Sculpture Remixed: Guest DJ Launch Party
12 November - 12 November, 2009
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Global Exhibitions: Contemporary Art and the African Diaspora
19 February - 19 February, 2010
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This major international symposium will consider recent developments in the globalisation of the contemporary art of Africa and its many diasporas. It will also discuss the complexities of presenting and exploring art of the African diaspora.
Public Opening
30 January - 30 January, 2010
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Enjoy the spectacle of Brazilian samba and the ‘dance, fight, game’ of capoeira in a day of performances celebrating the thriving cultural scene that developed out of the dispersal of peoples of African descent throughout Brazil and Europe.
Study Day: An Introduction to Afro modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
Exhibition: 13 March - 13 March, 2010
Private View: , 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
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This day will provide a historical overview of African-American art and history, with talks from local artists exploring the wider notion of the multi-national Black Atlantic.
Tell Your Story
Exhibition: 03 April - 11 April, 2010
Private View: , 11:00 am - 04:00 pm
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Come and participate in new exciting Easter Family Activities related to our Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic exhibition. Be inspired by story tellers, poets, and rappers and add your own tales of journeys to our growing video wall.
Artist Talk: Ellen Gallagher in Conversation with Romi Crawford
Exhibition: 08 April - 08 April, 2010
Private View: , 06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
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Ellen Gallagher is a key figure within international contemporary art and her work an integral feature of the Afro Modern exhibition. Tate Liverpool is delighted to present this in-conversation with Gallagher and US-based academic Romi Crawford.
L8 at the Tate: Back to the Timepiece
Exhibition: 22 April - 22 April, 2010
Private View: , 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm
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An evening of music, film, and debate as you’re invited to join internationally renowned local DJ Greg Wilson, and Les Spaine, who inspired him during the 70s, to explore the story of the development of the thriving black music scene in Liverpool.
Picasso: Peace and Freedom
Exhibition: 21 May - 30 August, 2010
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This exhibition will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert.
