#tate-gallery — Public Fediverse posts

UK Government Plans to Charge Admission to National Museums for International Visitors

A terrible idea. Just make art galleries free for all and encourage tourism!

*Reads article*

".. the implementation of charging international visitors to enter national museums is “conditional on the government first rolling out a universal ID scheme, which would make it easier to differentiate domestic and international visitors.”"

FUCK NO!

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uk-museums-admission-fees-international-visitors-1234779033/

#IDCards #Surveillance #UK #Art #NationalGallery #TateGallery

The Tate Gallery, London, c.1910 - DS Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/the-tate-gallery-london-c-1910-ds-postcard-235743201.htm

#London #TateGallery

Spring Undergrowth – Joan González

(The artist Joan González was born in Barcelona, and lived from 1868 to 1908; the title of this work in Catalan is Sous-bois Printanier.

#Art #JoanGonzález #SousBoisPrintanier #TateGallery

How copyright chaos reigns among the UK’s top cultural institutions

The perennial attempts to widen the reach of copyright in the pursuit of yet more revenue is something that is to be expected from companies. After all, maximising profits is basically what companies do. But as previous Walled Culture posts have lamented, there is also a widespread tendency among non-profit cultural institutions – museums, art galleries, libraries etc. – to use copyright […]

#2d #3d #anarchy #artGalleries #britishLibrary #culture #foia #freedomOfInformation #libraries #museums #nationalGalleriesOfScotland #nationalLibraryOfScotland #publicDomain #tateGallery #uk #wallaceCollection

https://walledculture.org/how-copyright-chaos-reigns-among-the-uks-top-cultural-institutions/

John MacWhirter - June in the Austrian Tyrol, c.1905 - Lévy Postcard LL95

https://www.delcampe.net/en_GB/collectables/postcards/fine-arts/paintings/john-macwhirter-june-in-the-austrian-tyrol-c-1905-levy-postcard-ll95-2025317342.html

#JohnMacWhirter #TateGallery #Art #Postcard #Postcards

Upeeta!

#TateGallery ottanut saamelaistaiteilija #OutiPieski n #taide tta vakituiseen kokoelmaansa, ja kehuu #Pieski ä vuolaasti!

"Tämä on ensimmäinen kerta, kun saamelaistaiteilija on päässyt Taten pysyvään kokoelmaan. Olemme valtavan innostuneita siitä. Se tarkoittaa, että soolonäyttelyn lisäksi töitä voidaan näyttää kaikissa neljässä #Tate-museossa Britanniassa,"

#nykytaide #kulttuuri #museo #museot #saame #saamelaiset #sapmi #alkuperäiskansa #alkuperäiskansat

https://yle.fi/a/74-20086958

This #sculpture is a maquette by #HenryMoore in the #TateGallery

#Museum #TateBritain #ModernArt

And I love it for its circuit board lines and its ivory colour like it's a finished piece. Great #Exhibit

#Art #FirefishArt

The Tate Gallery was built on the site of a prison. Millbank Prison, to be exact, an establishment which, for part of its history, housed convicts who were destined to be deported to Australia.

10 things you might not know about the Tate Gallery:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2017/07/21st-july-tate-gallery-opened.html

#Tate #TateGallery #Art #London #Facts

For context, here is "Four-Square (Walk Through)" seen in situ in the sculpture garden, with some nearby rooftops of St Ives, #Cornwall and the sea visible in the distance.

Picture courtesy #TateGallery website.

Bonjour.

#Bonjour #TateGallery #Sleepy