Apocalyptic vision of London comes to Tate Modern

Visitors to the Tate Modern gallery are about to face an apocalyptic vision of London partly inspired by the World War II Blitz and the July 7, 2005 transit bombings.

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An exhibition at the Tate Modern will feature a photograph of a nude ten-year-old Brooke Shields alongside sexually explicit pop art - a decision akin to rolling out a welcome mat for perverts, outraged critics charge. The inclusion of Richard Price's 1983 work 'Spiritual Ame …

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From May 7th until June 20th, Team Gallery presents new work by artist Banks Violette. Last night, a crowd -among which fellow artists Dash Snow and Matthew Barney- gathered at Team Gallery and Grand Street to take a first look at the work.

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Roni Horn's midcareer survey at the Tate Modern takes a while to warm up to, but give it some time and the shimmering, meditative work will begin to invite you in.

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Lisa Yuskavage's second solo show with David Zwirner Gallery opened on February 19th in Chelsea, the first of three Zwirner openings over the next two weeks.

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Nicholas Hlobo has developed a distinctive body of work, stitching and weaving disparate materials such as ribbon, rubber, gauze and leather to create seductively tactile sculptures and drawings.

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster brings the end of the world to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Get a first look.

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The much-anticipated Mark Rothko show opens in London. Andrew Dickson wonders if you'll get enough space to appreciate them.

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The much-anticipated Mark Rothko show opens in London. Andrew Dickson wonders if you'll get enough space to appreciate them.

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It will be one of the biggest salads ever created: several hundred kilos of lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes and carrot sliced on tables specially miked so that the sound reverberates around Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.

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From snatched shots on the street to artful studio poses, photographers have been pulling in two very different directions for years. Tate Modern brings these strands together in a sprawling new show - with mixed results

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The Museum of Modern Art in New York began collecting photography in the 1930s, but in the UK the Tate largely ignored the medium until 2003 when it presented Cruel and Tender, which looked at realism in photography.

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When Allan Kaprow built a 30ft-long ice sculpture in 1967 that began to melt as soon as it was created, some hailed it as a remarkable moment in the history of performance art. Others scratched their heads while the cynics dismissed it as a waste of time and money.

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With some 19m visitors having trooped through the soaring confines of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall since it opened seven years ago and its uncanny ability to command the attention of the world's media, few spaces can create popular sensations of the artists that exhibit in them …

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As contemporary art often does, the giant crack in the floor at the Tate Modern in London inspires different responses from different people.

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Art rarely carries a public health warning even when the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin try to push the boundaries of taste.

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The crack in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall floor proved a hit with visitors today - despite three people having fallen into it. The gallery was packed with people who had come to see the installation, Shibboleth, by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo.

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Britain's Tate Modern gallery revealed the latest addition to its collection Monday -- a 500-foot (150 meter) crack running the length of the building's ground-floor hall.

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Could the arts be Tony Blair's brightest legacy as he steps down as prime minister on Wednesday?

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So Piero Manzoni filled his cans not, as labelled, with Merda d'Artista, but with plaster. Does that matter? Does the concept still stand? Or should the Tate get rid of their investment fast?

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A Salvador Dalí masterpiece was finished more than half a century after he started it - not out of reverence for the surrealist artist but to secure ownership of a priceless archive of his work, a nephew of Walt Disney revealed yesterday.

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Dali & Film at the Tate Modern contains some of the Spanish artist's most famous works, including Lobster Telephone which was made in 1936

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While Salvador DalÍ is celebrated as the great painter-show-man of Surrealism, he was fascinated through his life by another medium – film.

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She has filled a vacant building lot in Istanbul with a tower of 1,550 chairs, meant to call to mind the anonymous migrants who underpin the globalised economy.

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Plans for a "spectacular" new development at the Tate Modern gallery have been given the go-ahead. The design, by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, was granted planning permission by Southwark Council, in London, last night, a spokesman for the gallery said.

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Sue a slide

For about five months now there has been a great installation in the Tate Modern Gallery's Turbine Hall, across the river from London's St Pauls Cathedral.

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