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Tate Modern, in Bankside Power Station on the south side of the Thames, opened in 2000 and now exhibits the national collection of modern art from 1900 to the present day, including some modern British art.
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Examples include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City held an exhibit, Two Private Eyes, in 1999, and in 2001 Tate Modern held an exhibition of Surrealist art that attracted over 170, 000 visitors.
The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern.
The collections in Tate Modern consist of works of international modern and contemporary art dating from 1900 until today.
Tate Modern currently has seven floors, originally numbered 1 to 7, they were renumbered 0 to 6 in 2012.
* Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde-Live at London Tate Modern 14th April 2012 ( Mute Rec ./ Abbey Road Live Here Now, 2012, London )
( 1963, Tate Modern, London ), one of the earliest known examples of pop art, adapted a comic-book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics ' All-American Men of War.
It was purchased by the Tate Modern in 1966, after being exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1963, and has remained in their collection since.
Another major retrospective opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012 before going to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2013.
In 2011, another retrospective was mounted by the Tate Modern, London, and travelled to Fundació Joan Miró and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
In 2004, a large selection of Hopper's paintings toured Europe, visiting Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, and the Tate Modern in London.
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art.
It is a network of four art museums: Tate Britain, London ( previously known as the Tate Gallery, founded 1897 ), Tate Liverpool ( founded 1988 ), Tate St Ives, Cornwall ( founded 1993 ) and Tate Modern, London ( founded 2000 ), with a complementary website, Tate Online ( created 1998 ).
Tate and Bankside
The southern end of the bridge is near Globe Theatre, the Bankside Gallery and Tate Modern, the north end next to the City of London School below St Paul's Cathedral.
It bears a marked resemblance to Scott's industrial architecture, a famous example of which is Bankside Power Station ( the home of the Tate Modern ).
Battersea Power Station was proposed for the Tate Modern but, due to financial constraints and less dilapidation, the smaller Bankside building was chosen.
The skyline of Bankside is dominated by the former Bankside Power Station, which now houses the Tate Modern.
They are perhaps best known for their conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London to the new home of Tate Modern.
* May 12 – Tate Modern in London, a conversion of Bankside Power Station by Herzog & de Meuron opens to the public.
The son of a Herefordshire timber merchant and Quaker, Cator joined the family business which had relocated to a new London base at Mould Strand Wharf ( now the Bankside site of the Tate Modern art gallery ) in Southwark, and sought to capitalise on the growth of the capital by investing in property, mainly in south-east London and Kent.
Monument to the Unknown Artist by Greyworld, London UKIn 2007, Greyworld launched Monument to the Unknown Artist beside the Tate Modern on London ’ s Bankside.
In 1995, Tate received £ 52 Million towards the conversion of the former Bankside Power Station to create Tate Modern.
He has also been asked to style nine Royal Opera House Galas, the re-opening of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the décor for the Centrepoint Ball at the Natural History Museum, and the styling of the inaugural dinner at the Tate Modern, Bankside.
The Tate Modern, also in London is another example of adaptive reuse in the European continent, unlike other adaptive reuse galleries in Europe, the Tate Modern takes full advantage of the site of the former Bankside Power Station, which involved the refurbishment of the old, abandoned power station.
The Tate to Tate and Service West operates between St George Wharf Pier in Vauxhall and Bankside Pier, serving visitors travelling between the Tate Modern museum on the South Bank and the older Tate Britain in Millbank across the river.
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