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Hilma af Klint The Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 9, Old Age, 1907 Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation

Famed abstract artists capture nature as you’ve never seen it before

26 April 2023

The pioneering work of Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, who trained in the late 19th century, is finally brought into conversation at the Tate Modern in London


On Sonorous Seas review: What a dead whale can tell us

On Sonorous Seas review: What a dead whale can tell us

10 August 2022

When a beaked whale carcass washed up near her home, part of a mass stranding around the region, Mhairi Killin was inspired to launch an artistic challenge to the military's impact in the area


How the pandemic is revolutionising art galleries and museums

How the pandemic is revolutionising art galleries and museums

3 February 2021

What have covid-19 closures done to art galleries and museums? From virtual tours of mothballed shows to advanced tech like lidar, they are finding new, more personal ways to wow audiences


Fungi's fabulous future in mental health and sustainable materials

Fungi's fabulous future in mental health and sustainable materials

12 February 2020

These images showcase the incredible ways mushrooms can be used for everything from boosting well-being to fashioning baroque high heels


Nam June Paik exhibition recreates his prophetic video visions

Nam June Paik exhibition recreates his prophetic video visions

27 November 2019

From video walls to an electronic Sistine chapel, the Tate Modern’s show on Korean cult media artist Nam June Paik reveals his searing prophetic views of the electronic age


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Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

18 September 2019

This week: when two cultures collide, the plight of the world's rarest porpoise and humans manipulating their future


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Don't Miss: FBI profiling, blanket-bog art and psychedelic minds

7 August 2019

This week, watch the FBI learn criminal profiling, be amazed by art inspired by Europe's largest blanket bog, and tune into cutting edge psychedelic research


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The weather project artist Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern

10 July 2019

Artist Olafur Eliasson, who brought the sun to Tate Modern's turbine hall in 2003, returns with In Real Life, a new exhibition featuring incredible installations. We quiz him on selfies, short-term thinking and the climate reckoning to come


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Don't Miss: social media violence, lowdown on AI, scary black holes

14 November 2018

Watch a town descend into chaos after a social media hack, learn how much we really know about AI, explore science-art links – and peer inside black holes


black hole simulation

What it's like to be sucked into a black hole – without dying

31 October 2018

The Distortions in Spacetime simulation recently pulled in its first victims, transporting viewers on a psychedelic ride towards infinite mass in zero space


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