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• Vast Ancient Cities Discovered Beneath The Jungles Of Cambodia

  14-06-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new cities were found by firing lasers to the ground from a helicopter to produce extremely detailed imagery of the Earth’s surface. The airborne laser scanners had also identified large numbers of mysterious geometric patterns formed from earthen embankments, which could have been gardens. Experts in the archaeological world agree these are the most significant archaeological discoveries in recent years.”
  
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• Views from the art world

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  How has Tate Modern changed the art scene in London and internationally?
  Okwui Enwezor, director, Haus der Kunst, MunichYou can see an attempt by the museum to tell a more global story, especially at a time when what I would call trophy art has been a predominant part of the same culture. What Tate Modern has done over the last 10 or 15 years, in my view, has been really extraordinary. It has been a leading voice in forcing other museums to re-look at their own programmes both in terms of the co
  
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• The Turbine Hall: how the Tate made a spectacle of itself

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  2000: I do, I undo, I redo
  Who: Louise Bourgeois, then about to reach her 90th birthday.What: At the east end of the Turbine Hall, three steel towersI Do, I Undo and I Redoeach nine metres high, with spiral staircases, mother-and-child sculptures, and vast circular mirrors around and within them. On the bridge over the space, a giant steel spider, Maman, with marble eggs in its belly.
  The artist said: I Do is an active state. Its a positive affirmation. I am in control, and I move forward
  
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• The shock to the old

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  It is only a slight exaggeration to claim that if I had a pound for every occasion on which I have been assured that the inexorable rise of Tate Modern and its kin all over the globe has been counterpointed by a mournful decline in the fortunes of the Old Masters, I would be a rich man. Such statements need to be confronted with large doses of merciless scepticism.The first point to make, before properly getting down to business, is that the house of art has many mansions, and that its constitu
  
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• The ones that got away: Tate’s rejected designs

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Once the Tate had settled on the inactive Bankside Power Station as the home of what was then to be the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in 1994, a competition was launched to find the architects to turn this hulking building into a museum. From 150 submissions, a shortlist of 13 architects was invited to prepare schemes, and this was further whittled down to six finalists who would submit detailed proposals.
  In 1994, Herzog & de Meuron were not the starchitects they are today, and had the Tates
  
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• The networks that buy the Tate’s art

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Reading through the Tates 2014/15 annual report makes clear how successful the museum has been in building up a vast network of benefactors who sit on its numerous acquisition committees, including the Young Patrons council, Tate Patrons, the International Council and seven international committees (see graphics).
  The first international committee founded by the Tate was the North American Acquisitions Committee, which was established in 2001. Funds raised by the committee have enabled the Tate
  
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• The guide that Takes London’s artistic pulse

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Any regular visitor to Londons contemporary art galleries will likely be familiar with New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art (Neca), a foldout listing and map of exhibitions. It has, since it was founded in 1978, been an indispensable guide for those seeking out galleries, from national museums to the most obscure small spaces down hidden alleyways. Its founder was Kay Roberts, who worked at the now defunct Coracle Gallery and later went on to run Actualities Gallery.
  She remembers discussing the
  
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• The ground is laid for the next revolution

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Later this month, Tate Modern will open its new extension, a 260m brick-clad ziggurat designed by Herzog & de Meuron, who converted Bankside Power Station into the original Tate Modern in 2000. It prompted The Art Newspaper to consider the Tates seismic effect on the art scene in London and indeed internationally. In this special report we focus on what happened to art-making; on the Tates collecting policies; on other museums around the world and historic art; on Londons commercial gallery
  
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• Tate Modern: a shock to the old

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  It is only a slight exaggeration to claim that if I had a pound for every occasion on which I have been assured that the inexorable rise of Tate Modern and its kin all over the globe has been counterpointed by a mournful decline in the fortunes of the Old Masters, I would be a rich man. Such statements need to be confronted with large doses of merciless scepticism.The first point to make, before properly getting down to business, is that the house of art has many mansions, and that its constitu
  
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• Tate Britain a new sense of identity

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Old Tate. It wasnt the most appealing nickname to have as the hordes surged to Tate Modern after its opening in 2000. But thats how the original Tate Gallery on Millbank, then newly returned to its first function as the national gallery of British art, came to be known at the time. I was the press officer at Tate Britain between 2001 and 2005, and one of those charged with keeping people interested in goings-on at Millbank.
  We at the gallery knew it was an exciting space and programme, with
  
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• Show me the numbers

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Tate is keen to celebrate the fact that its programme for the newly expanded Tate Modern marks a major shift in its display strategies, including more geographical diversity, more female artists and a greater emphasis on the contemporary. We analysed major solo exhibitions at Tate Modern, from its first show in 2001 to 2015, to see how it was getting on so far, as well as looking at its visitor attendance compared with other national galleries and museums.
  The slow rise in the number of show
  
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• Performance: stage left, right and centre in the new Tate

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  The new Tate Modern opens in June with three weeks of live art and performance across all of the museum, with stress on the word all. None will be staged in a theatre space, however. My interest in performance comes from a perverse interest in not putting things in boxes, says Catherine Wood, the Tates curator of contemporary art and performance. Or not believing you can separate art and life. If you start looking at it, all post-war art has a relationship to the body. We want to show that. Som
  
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• Nicholas Serota: The great transformer

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Which are the three most important museums of Modern and contemporary art in the world? The Pompidou in Paris, the city that defined art until the Second World War. MoMA in New York, the city of the post-war period. And Tate Modern in London, the city that may never have defined art, but is about to rip up the classic two-city narrative of the Modernist canon for good.The seeds were sown a long time ago. The much-maligned 2001 Century City showart from Paris, Vienna, Moscow, Rio, New York, Lago
  
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• New Robot Can Find Misshelved Library Books

  14-06-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Misplaced library books frustrate patrons and give librarians migraines. The whole system relies on books being precisely in their proper location. … [Researchers in Singapore] have created an autonomous shelf-scanning robot called AuRoSS that can tell which books are missing or out of place … and instruct librarians how to get the books back in order when they arrive in the morning.”
  
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• Michael Landy gets creatively destructive in Basel’s Tinguely Museum

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Michael Landy has been making art from, and about, the kind of stuff that most people take for granted ever since he graduated from Goldsmiths in London in 1988, where he showed crocodile-clipped tarpaulin sheets in the now legendary Freeze exhibition, organised by fellow student Damien Hirst.Disposal and human detritus lie at the heart of Landys two best-known projects: the epic Scrapheap Services (1996), in which he created an entire services industry to rid society of untidy realities,
  
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• Kunstmuseum Basel’s new director arrives in style

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Kunstmuseum Basels new director, Josef Helfenstein, will have an unusually free hand when he takes over this autumn. He and his curators will be able to develop the museums exhibition programme straight away, and he will inherit far more space to show its collection.Museums arrange exhibition programmes two or three years in advance, so incoming directors usually have to wait to see their own shows materialise. But the institutions outgoing director, Bernhard Mendes Brgi, has, with his succ
  
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• How artists and museums are addressing the refugee crisis

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  A growing number of artists and public institutions have been navigating the complexities of the refugee crisis over the past few years, and now the private sector is pitching in to raise awarenessand funds for charities. At Art Basel this year there are several projects and gallery presentations that reflect the current humanitarian disaster engulfing Europe.
  On Saturday, the Green Light project will take place within the artist Oscar Tuazons Zome Alloy installation on the Messeplatz. Launched
  
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• Edgy art in Basel’s back yard

  14-06-2016 23:00
  A brisk walk from central Basel is Birsfelden; nestled between the Birs and Rhine rivers, the sleepy Swiss municipality is best known for its harbour and forest walks. But since 2009, locals have been welcoming not only nature lovers, but art enthusiasts too. From post-internet to performance art, and from mail art to installations in garages, the non-profit space Salts is giving Art Basels cutting-edge galleries a run for their money.When you first hear about Salts being in Birsfelden, it seem
  
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• Economics and politics made Tate Modern happen

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Cultural booms dont happen in a vacuum, and Tate Moderns runaway success is no exception to the rule. When the museum opened in 2000, Londons status as a financial centre in the midst of an economic boom was at its zenith.
  Having breezed through concerns that the Y2K bug would crash the increasingly automated trading systems at the turn of the century, business in London had never been better. In 2000, mergers and acquisitionsthe mega-deals that made millions of pounds overnight for their assoc
  
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• Dealers have a Happy Meal plus more Basel gossip

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Theyre lovin it
  The New York Times recently reported that blue-chip Dominique Lvy gallery would celebrate the opening of Art Basel with a circus-themed party created by a tightrope acrobat with dinner under the big top. But New Yorks Gavin Browns Enterprise and Brescia-based Galleria Massimo Minini offered a unique twist on the traditional swanky pre-Art Basel gallery dinners. The two dealers took over the Badischer Bahnhof McDonalds, just down the street from the Messeplatz, to celebrate Massim
  
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• Collectors take a long hard look at themselves at Art Basel

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Artists are holding up a mirror to the art world at Art Basel, its biggest tribal gathering, which opened to invited collectors yesterday. Collectors, art advisers, dealers and the rest of the art markets elite arrived to find its rituals (and sometimes themselves) representedthough not necessarily in the best light.
  Artists are working with all kinds of social tissue, and the market is one form of this, says Gianni Jetzer, the curator of the fairs Unlimited section. But do such works court or
  
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• Collective experience: two artists on Making art for the Tate's industrial spaces

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Out of the black box, into the lightThe Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker performed Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich at the opening of Tate Modern's Tanks in 2012. In July, she returns to Tate Modern, where her company Rosas will perform the piece Work/Travail/Arbeid in the Turbine Hall (8-10 July)."The project, Work/Travail/Arbeid, was an answer to a question from Wiels, the contemporary art centre in Brussels. They asked me to make a choreography, not just for&nb
  
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• Buy Olafur Eliasson’s green light, help refugees

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Green light, the Vienna-based art project launched by Olafur Eliasson to welcome refugees, is coming to Art Basel this weekend. Since March, participants from countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq have worked with local people at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary to make nearly 300 green lamps designed by the Danish-Icelandic artist. Participants will present the project inside Oscar Tuazons wooden structure on the Messeplatz, on 18 and 19 June. Lamps will be available for SFr350 ea
  
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• Artists set sail for the South Pole, via Venice

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  On 27 March 2017, the Russian research ship Akademik Ioffe will cast off from the tip of Argentina on a journey to Antarctica. It will be carrying around 100 scientists, artists, visionaries and poets. Art will be created, poetry recited and the meaning and future of life discussed, and there will be more of the same once the only no-mans-land in the world is reached. For Antarctica belongs to no one, under a treaty of 1959 in which the countries of the world promised to keep the continent invi
  
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• Art Basel's Unlimited section is one big party

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Its like organising a birthday party, says Gianni Jetzer of overseeing Unlimited (until 19 June), Art Basels special section dedicated to large-scale installations. The cake is the foundation, but as the curator, I have to add the icing, the candles, the cherries and some music to celebrate. Jetzer, who is also curator-at-large at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, has brought together a record 88 works for Unlimited in this, his fifth year, including four performance
  
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• Art Basel dealers lovin’ it at McDonald’s

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  The New York Times recently reported that blue-chip Dominique Lvy gallery would celebrate the opening of Art Basel with a circus-themed party created by a tightrope acrobat with dinner under the big top. But New Yorks Gavin Browns Enterprise and Brescia-based Galleria Massimo Minini offered a unique twist on the traditional swanky pre-Art Basel gallery dinners. The two dealers took over the Badischer Bahnhof McDonalds, just down the street from the Messeplatz, to celebrate Massimo Mininis 40th
  
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• Anthony d'Offay on why it’s good to give

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  Few other figures have shaped the cultural life of London as much as the retired dealer Anthony dOffay. His art gallery in Mayfairs Dering Street, which closed in 2001, held significant, mostly museum-quality shows dedicated to artists such as Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter in the 1980s and 1990s, making it an essential reference point for the capitals contemporary art connoisseurs.
  In 2008, he became one of Britains most generous philanthropists, and a regional cheerleader, with the launch o
  
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• Andres Serrano’s scenes of cruel and unusual punishment

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  There are many politically charged works at Art Basel this yearbut there is nothing quite like a new series called Torture, by Andres Serrano, that is due to go on show in France next month. His disturbing images feature more than 40 volunteers being degraded and shackled, with the US artist assuming the role of torturer. The images are due to go on display at the Collection Lambert in Avignon on 4 July (until 25 September).The series was initiated and produced by a/political, a London-based non
  
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• And here’s what they buy: some of the key recent acquisitions in Tate Modern’s new displays

  14-06-2016 23:00
  
  El Anatsui, born 1944, Ink Splash II (2012)Bought with funds provided by the Africa Acquisitions Committee, 2015
  This is a characteristically shimmering work by the Ghanaian artist, who riffs on abstract paintings and traditional textiles through the unusual medium of crushed and repurposed bottle tops. Anatsui says that the bottle tops are elements that could generate some reflection, some thinking or just some wonder. Cildo Meireles, born 1948, Babel (2001)Bought jointly by the Tate, London (
  
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• Jake Cruzen & Jared Madere at White Flag Projects, St. Louis

  14-06-2016 22:51 via artnews.com
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• Josh Kline’s ‘Unemployment’ at 47 Canal: a Brilliant, High-Concept Thriller

  14-06-2016 22:43 via artnews.com
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• How a William Hogarth painting predicted Brexit 250 years ago

  14-06-2016 19:13
  
  British feelings of isolationism, anger and complacency are nothing new – Hogarth was busy skewering them in 1748. He also understood what today’s Brexiters do not: the country’s power relies on an international economyIt’s the economy, stupid. Or is it? The British people seem unimpressed by airy liberal issues such as jobs and money as, in the looming EU referendum, they head for an assertion of national sovereignty that flies in the face of all those scary warnings of
  
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• Switched On: Tate Modern Unveils Its Towering Extension, Aiming to Expand Its Mission and Rewrite Art History

  14-06-2016 18:44 via artnews.com
  Tate Modern on Tuesday unveiled to the press its hotly anticipated £260 million ($375 million) expansion, the most significant new cultural building in Britain since the landmark opening in 2000 of its home in a power station-turned-art powerhouse on the … Read More
  
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• New Tate Modern: more women, more diverse and more macaws

  14-06-2016 18:30
  
  The £260m Switch House extension has rooms with solo female artists, work from across the world, and a live bird installationIn Tate Modern’s £260m extension there are more works on display by women and by artists not from western Europe or North America; there is more performance, photography and interactive art; more cafes, shops, lifts and places to sit down; and more beautifully plumed macaws.Two in fact, quietly eating bananas and nuts, as nearly 1,000 journalists paraded
  
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• Sara Cwynar and Mary Reid Kelley Named Winners of Baloise Art Prize

  14-06-2016 18:28 via artnews.com
  The winners of the Baloise Art Prize, an annual award sponsored by European financial services provider Baloise Group, were announced at Art Basel earlier today. Artists Sara Cwynar and Mary Reid Kelley will each be awarded a cash prize of … Read More
  
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• Art Basel Begins, as the World’s Primo Dealers Fight a Cooling Market

  14-06-2016 18:19 via artnews.com
  With market prognosticators fearing a tepid start to Art Basel amid an international slowdown in art sales, the world’s biggest galleries shipped a ballsy set of offerings to Switzerland. On Tuesday morning collectors responded by buying a number of high-priced works, … Read More
  
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• Barbara Hepworth works raise £2.2m for her old school

  14-06-2016 17:34
  
  Wakefield girls’ high school sell two sculptures to private collectors, despite calls for them to remain with the school Two sculptures by Barbara Hepworth have sold for more than £2.2m after being auctioned by her old school despite mounting protests from former pupils.
  The works fetched double their asking price when they were sold at Sotheby’s in London by Wakefield girls’ high school, which acquired the works decades ago. Continue reading...
  
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• Art Critics Association Announces Contest for Young Writers That Offers Trip to Cuba

  14-06-2016 17:17 via artnews.com
  The International Association of Art Critics—or AICA, as its styled—announced that for the fifth edition of its AICA Incentive Award for Young Critics, it will present one lucky writer with a trip to Havana, Cuba, to attend the AICA Congress, … Read More
  
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• Tate Modern reveals new Switch House extension ahead of public opening

  14-06-2016 16:33
  
  Almost half of the world-famous gallery's solo rooms are now showcasing works by female artists
  
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• Morning Links: Clark Art Institute Edition

  14-06-2016 14:38 via artnews.com
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• Dave Hickey: 'The title of artist has to be earned'

  14-06-2016 11:00
  
  The art critic and essayist may have retired from the art world – but he’s still thinking and writing about art, why Donald Trump has charisma, and how Joan Mitchell was the best painter of her generationThroughout his five-decade career, writer and critic Dave Hickey has blasted a niche for himself as one of the art world’s loudest voices, chiming from his various outposts in New York, LA, then Nashville, Las Vegas and for the last several years, Santa Fe.In 2001, Hickey snatc
  
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• Pope L. monkeys around in a gorilla suit at Art Basel

  14-06-2016 10:45
  
  New York’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery kicked off Art Basel’s Unlimited section last night (13 June) with a new performance by Pope.L, the US artist who tackles issues of race and angst across a variety of media. When asked about the reactions he expected from the crowd, he said: “Thoughtfulness,” adding: “I suppose people throwing things might be okay. I can defend myself. I’m not a beast without a mission.” Pope.L debuted The Problem (2016) by t
  
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• The Tube gets new font to incorporate hashtags because unfortunately that's necessary

  14-06-2016 10:35
  
  Its first change in 100 years of service
  
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• Edward Bawden's scrapbook: a wondrous almanac of one man’s sensibility

  14-06-2016 10:00
  
  The collected scrapbooks of the artist and designer Edward Bawden bulge with interest and beautyIn the post, something fantastic arrives: the scrapbooks of the artist and designer Edward Bawden, gathered together between hard covers for the first time thanks to a collaboration between the Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden, the publisher Lund Humphries, and Peyton Skipwith and Brian Webb, whose job it was to edit them. It’s a publication that feels at once both long overdue – Bawden died
  
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• The Guardian view on Tate Modern’s Switch House: bold, beautiful and a bountiful public resource | Editorial

  14-06-2016 09:00
  
  On Friday, Tate Modern will fling open the doors to its new extension, which increases its display space by 60%. It will offer new ways of experiencing art – and of understanding the worldIn the 16 years since its opening, Tate Modern has transformed the nation’s relationship with art. It is hard now to summon up the time before it existed – a time when, extraordinarily, London was the only major city in the world lacking a public gallery permanently dedicated to the display of
  
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• Dark Mofo 2016: an opening weekend of endurance, immersion and dark art

  14-06-2016 08:52
  
  Australia’s most unusual (and coldest) arts festival has opened in Hobart and, like all good arts events, the true delight comes from the collective experience“Without the experience of the visitor, it’s just machines,” Ryoji Ikeda shrugs. “People create the story.”The elusive sound artist is addressing an assembled press cohort the day before his installation opens at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), as part of this year’s Dark Mofo fest
  
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• Tate Modern's Switch House review – brain-fizzing art to power a pyramid

  14-06-2016 07:00
  
  Supersized sculpture, live performance and piles of goo get the airing they deserve in an expansion full of surprise – the 360-degree lookout is art itselfThe Guardian view: bold, beautiful and a bountiful public resourceThe Switch House feels like it belongs. The twisted, off-kilter pyramid of Tate Modern’s new extension is terrific not only on its own terms, but also in its impact on the rest of Herzog & de Meuron’s original conversion of Bankside power station into a tru
  
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• Tate Modern Switch House review – brain-fizzing art to power a pyramid

  14-06-2016 07:00
  
  Supersized sculpture, live performance and piles of goo get the airing they deserve in an expansion full of surprise – the 360-degree lookout is art itselfThe twisted, off-kilter pyramid of Tate Modern’s new extension is terrific not only on its own terms, but also in its impact on the rest of Herzog & de Meuron’s original conversion of Bankside power station into a truly contemporary art gallery in 2000. The Switch House feels like it belongs.Related: First look: inside th
  
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