Tate Britain
Established	1897 as National Gallery of British Art; became Tate Britain in 2000
Location	Millbank, London SW1, England, United Kingdom
Visitor figures	1,700,000 (2005) [1]
Director	Stephen Deuchar
Nearest tube station(s)	Pimlico
Website	www.tate.org.uk/britain
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Tate Britain is a part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is housed in the Tate's original premises on Millbank on the site of Millbank Prison. The front part of the building was designed by Sidney R. J. Smith with a classical portico and dome behind. Construction commenced in 1893 and the gallery originally opened on 21 July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. There have been several extensions over the years. The central sculpture gallery was designed by John Russell Pope. The gallery was renamed "Tate Britain",in March 2000 before the launch of Tate Modern. It is now dedicated to the display of historical and contemporary British art. It includes the Clore Gallery of 1987, designed by James Stirling, which houses work by J.M.W. Turner. The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... Tate Modern from the Millennium Bridge Tate Modern from St Pauls Cathedral. ... The Tate Liverpool is located in Albert Dock, Liverpool. ... Porthmeor Beach, St Ives with the entrance to the Tate gallery on the right. ... Millbank is an area of London, England, that is east of Pimlico and south of Westminster. ... Millbank Prison was a large prison built in Millbank, Pimlico, London. ... Categories: Architectural elements | Stub ... For other uses, see Dome (disambiguation). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Jefferson Memorial, built 1939 — 1943 John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an architect most known for his designs of the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941) in Washington, DC. Pope was born in... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Tate Modern from the Millennium Bridge Tate Modern from St Pauls Cathedral. ... British Art is the art of the island of Britain. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University. ... J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ...

Shows

The main display spaces are used to show the permanent collection of historic British art, as well as some contemporary work in the collection. The gallery also organises temporary major exhibitions of British Art and career retrospectives of British artists.

Tate Britain hosts the annual and usually controversial Turner Prize exhibition, featuring four artists under the age of fifty, selected by a jury chaired by the Tate Director, Sir Nicholas Serota. This is spread out over the year with the four nominees announced in May, the show of their work opened in October and the prize itself given in December. Each stage of the prize generates media coverage, and there have also been a number of demonstrations against the prize, notably since 2000 an annual picket by Stuckist artists. The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ... Nicholas Serota Sir Nicholas Serota (born 1946) is a curator, and is currently Director of the Tate Gallery, the United Kingdoms national gallery of modern and British art. ... The logo on the Stuckism International web site Stuckism is an art movement that was founded in 1999 in Britain by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. ...

Tate Britain draped for Days Like These the 2003 Tate Triennial exhibition of contemporary British Art

Every three years the gallery stages a Trienniale exhibition in which a guest curator provides an overview of contemporary British Art. The image description page on the Commons redirects to here - no point in clicking. ... The image description page on the Commons redirects to here - no point in clicking. ...

Art Now is a small changing show in a dedicated room of a contemporary artist's work.

Facilities

Millbank Pier immediately outside Tate Britain. High speed boats link the pier to Tate Modern. The structure is intended to resemble a shark rising from the water.

The front entrance is accessible by steps. A more recent side entrance at a lower level also has a ramp for wheelchair access. The gallery provides a restaurant and a cafe, as well as a Friends room, open only to members of the Tate. This membership is open to the public on payment of an annual subscription. As well as administration offices the building complex houses the Tate Gallery's Library and Archive in the Hyman Kreitman Research Centre. The restaurant features a mural by Rex Whistler. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (3,264 × 2,448 pixels, file size: 3. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (3,264 × 2,448 pixels, file size: 3. ... Tate Modern from the Millennium Bridge Tate Modern from St Pauls Cathedral. ... Rex Whistler (b. ...

Tate Britain is attempting to reach out to a different and younger audience with Late at Tate Britain on the first Friday of every month, with half-price admission to special exhibitions, live music and performance art.

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Artworks

Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. As such, it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. It has in focus rooms dedicated to works by one artist, such as: Tracey Emin, John Latham, Douglas Gordon, Sam Taylor-Wood, Marcus Gheeraerts II. This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... 1500 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Yale Center for British Art is an art museum associated with Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States. ... We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961. ... Blakes album cover Sir Peter Thomas Blake (born June 25, 1932, in Dartford, Kent) is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles album Sgt. ... Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish figurative painter. ... Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). ... John Latham John Latham (June 27, 1740 - February 4, 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author. ... Self-portrait as Kurt Cobain, as Andy Warhol, as Myra Hindley, as Marilyn Monroe, 1996 Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. ... Sam Taylor-Wood (born London 1967) is a contemporary artist working mostly in video and photography. ...

While individual works occasionally move between the different Tate galleries, popular works usually on display at Tate Britain include:

• The Painter and his Pug by William Hogarth
• Newton by William Blake
• Horse Attacked by a Lion by George Stubbs
• Giovanna Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough
• Sketch for Hadleigh Castle by John Constable
• The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin
• The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse
• Ophelia by John Everett Millais
• The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis
• Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• The Golden Bough by J. M. W. Turner
• The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer
• Norham Castle, Sunrise by J.M.W. Turner
• Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon
• Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen by Joshua Reynolds
• The Cholmondeley Ladies by Unknown 17th Century Artist
• The Mud Bath by David Bomberg
• Recumbent Figure by Henry Moore
• Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge by James McNeill Whistler

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