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Director, @Tate (Header artwork: Vanessa Bell, Still Life on Corner of a Mantelpiece, detail, 1914)

London
Joined May 2010
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Join artist and film-maker Steve McQueen live in conversation with @artangel at 19:00 BST tonight! A link to view the event is available on their website: artangel.org.uk/project/year… Any questions for Steve? Share them using #ArtangelIsOpen
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'I want to share this wilderness without fences'  - Art Fund. It is the last day of this wonderful campaign. Please donate! The soul nourishing solitude of Dungeness is perhaps the most magical element of Derek’s work at Prospect. Needed so much now! artfund.org/get-involved/art…
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Today marks Derek Jarman's 78th birthday If you’ve been thinking about donating now’s the time. Get us closer to the amount we need to #SaveProspectCottage & protect Derek’s legacy. artfund.org/prospect 🎥edited from Isaac Julien's Dungeness Redux (2008) Courtesy the artist
Prospect Cottage needs you now Derek Jarman’s cottage & garden stand testament to his unique creativity & defiant spirit Help us raise £3.5 million to protect his legacy & inspire creativity in generations to come Join the campaign to #SaveProspectCottage artfund.org/prospect
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"My hope is that through the billboards millions of Londoners can reflect on the past, the present and the future. Not only of themselves but of their city.” Steve McQueen's #Year3Project is a partnership between @Tate, Artangel and @A_New_Direction.
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Bernadine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood together winners of @TheBookerPrizes. Two amazing novels, intergenerational, intersectional feminist writing. Perfect for now. Thanks Booker.
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Stepping out of their collective comfort zones - amazing discussion between Olafur Eliasson, Mary Robinson, Malini Mehra, Clare Farrell chaired by Bidisha, with inspiring opener from Director Frances Morris at @Tate modern.
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Janelle Monae just completely awesome. What a performance and a speech to make us all weep and feel strong. @MIFestival well done!!
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Thousands of bells for peace, gorgeous din resounding across Manchester #yokoono @MIFestival what a wonderful opener!
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Really looking forward to these five major exhibitions, all set to open at Tate galleries in 2020-21: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Paula Rego, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Haegue Yang and Maria Bartuszová bit.ly/2UpyTiW #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists
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35 million+ people have died of AIDS-related illnesses & 36 million+ live with HIV today. Tate Modern's new display 'Intimacy, Activism and AIDS' shines a light on the brilliance, beauty and bravery of those whose lives have been cut short. bit.ly/2PaDy4E #WorldAIDSDay
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Listening to @maryannehobbs @BBC6Music talking about this year’s Turner Prize broadcasting from @Tate Britain. Art, music, culture on a Saturday morning.
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Join the @FoundlingMuseum to mark 100 years of female suffrage with their exhibition #LadiesofQuality, revealing the remarkable women in the Foundling Hospital story. On until 20 January 2019 bit.ly/2K4lSH8
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Congratulations to @MIFestival for winning best event at the #McrCultureAwards. Captured the feelings of the city and yes, am biased, as many people dear to me in this fabulous city walked the Piccadilly gardens catwalk. – at Manchester, England
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Best of luck to this year's @RIBA #StirlingPrize nominees 🎉
We are so excited for tonight's @RIBA #StirlingPrize announcement & wishing all the other finalists the best of luck! @JamieFobertArch
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I was at a presentation. A nice lady from an art museum said: “our challenge is attracting new audiences while protecting loyal patrons.” And then I snapped. Blog post >>> museumtwo.blogspot.com/2018/…
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Rather extraordinary Great Pagoda @kewgardens on a glorious evening with national museum director colleagues seeing the newly restored Temperate House and talking museum futures. Thank you Richard Deverell
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