London's penniless Tate Gallery welcomes gifts,legacies
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British artists Damien Hirst and David Hockney are to make gifts of some of their paintings to the Tate Gallery in London, which can no longer afford such works, its director Nicholas Serota said.
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The gift of more than $10 million, from a yet unnamed corporation, is likely to stir some excitement in the art world.
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The Modern's galleries are an eloquent reaffirmation of the enduring beauty of the museum's historic account of modernism.
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One of the world's finest art collections has finally got the kind of clean, modern space that old masters such as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco deserve.
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Multi-millionaire English artist Damien  Hirst said on Thursday he was donating four major works to  Britain's Tate Gallery, including a sliced and pickled cow and  calf.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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In pictures: Catch a preview of the new London show featuring over 60 pieces by the urban artist
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Modern art collector Charles Saatchi changes tack with a new collection of paintings at his London gallery.
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Britain's prestigious Tate galleries are so short of money to buy new acquisitions that they have persuaded several leading artists to hand over their works for free to maintain the collections.
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A collection of ceramics owned by Lord Attenborough goes on display in a Leicester gallery.
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Arts & entertainment: Adrian Searle admires Tate Britain's rich, haunting retrospective of Peter Doig's work
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More than 400,000 art-lovers crowded London's Tate Modern over the summer for painter Edward Hopper's soul-searching chronicle of 20th century America, making it the gallery's second biggest draw ever.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A new exhibition opens in London on Wednesday aiming to shine new light on an influential but short-lived British art group that outraged the stuffy Edwardian art establishment at the start of the 20th century.
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The Royal Academy of Arts will hold a major exhibition of Turkish art at its London headquarters next year.
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London's Tate Modern, one of the world's  biggest art galleries, housed in a cavernous old power station,  is going to get even bigger, its director said on Thursday.
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LONDON: A bag of rubbish was thrown away at London&#39;s Tate gallery after a cleaner assumed it was just that -- a bag of rubbish.
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Nine art objects, including a piece dating from more than 1,000 BC, have been stolen from a ceramics gallery at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, the museum said.