Victoria & Pimlico

2 March 2009 to 31 March 2010

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In 2008, art collector and dealer Anthony d'Offay donated a large and prestigious collection of contemporary art to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. The collection is known as ARTIST ROOMS and its guiding concept is to show the work of individual artists in dedicated monographic displays.

10:00 AM - 5:40 PM; Every Ist Fri Of the Month 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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This Gilbert & George display forms part of a collection of international contemporary art jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. It is known as Artist Rooms and focuses on individual rooms devoted to particular artists. Gilbert & George are among the most provocative artists to have emerged from the British art scene in the late 1960s.

10:00 AM - 5:40 PM; Every Ist Fri Of the Month 10:00 AM - 9:40 PM Closed 24 - 26 Nov 2009

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Tate Britain features an installation by Ian Hamilton Finlay as a part of a collection of international contemporary art jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. It focuses on individual rooms devoted to particular artists.

5 September 2009 to 13 December 2009

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This group exhibition takes as its focus the physical encounter between viewer and object, person and thing. The exhibition will include paintings, sculptures and video.

9 February 2010 to 23 February 2010

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The complete solo piano works of Chopin.

Open all year Mon - Fri 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM; Sat 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Closed Boxing Day, Christmas Day

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For visitors who prefer to take their own time and pace to visit the Abbey but who appreciate some extra guidance on the history and meaning of what they see.

11 December 2009

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A programme of seasonal music and readings by Metro Voices, directed by Grenville Jones and Jenny O'Grady.

5 September 2009 to 13 December 2009

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This group exhibition takes as its focus the physical encounter between viewer and object, person and thing. Like characters in conversation, each work asserts its individual personality through scale, texture and form to prompt an immediate instinctual response from the viewer. Evolving from the artists' varied approaches both to making art and its meaning, the works fuse image, idea and material to form a whole. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and video by both emerging and established artists such as Helene Appel, Richard Deacon, Simon Ling, Brian Griffiths and Emily Wardill.

19 October 2009 to 30 April 2010

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Returning to Yorkshire after years spent under the Californian sun, David Hockney has been inspired by the rural scenery to reinvent his painting style. In 2008 Hockney generously donated one of these new works to Tate. Bigger Trees Near Warter 2007 - his largest ever painting - will be displayed in its entirety at Tate Britain for the first time this autumn. The huge painting measures four-and-a-half by twelve metres and is made up of 50 panels. Walking into the room, visitors will be awed by the sheer scale of the work, which shows a landscape west of Bridlington just before the arrival of sprin

10:00 AM - 5:40 PM; Every Ist Fri Of the Month 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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Tate Britain's collections display British art from around 1500 and go right up to contemporary art from the present day. This means that old masters and Pre-Raphaelite paintings are in the same building as work by modern and contemporary artists, such as Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Rachel Whiteread. Highlights include Millais's Ophelia, Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott and Norham Castle by Turner.

9 June 2010 to 5 September 2010

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This groundbreaking exhibition uses visual art to explore the role of humour in British culture over the centuries. Tackling key themes such as morality, politics and the absurd, the show will feature works by classic caricaturists from William Hogarth, James Gillray and George Cruikshank, to David Low, Gerald Scarfe and Steve Bell. It will also feature cartoons, comic books and works by contemporary artists such as Simone Lia, Paul Noble and Angus Fairhurst. A host of present-day cartoonists and comic writers will collaborate with Tate curators in the presentation of these diverse works, ensuring a fresh and emphatically contemporary overview of Britain's comic traditions from the 1500s to the present day.

28 January 2010

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A Thursday Lunchtime Concert Series featuring Camilla Roberts on soprano and Sergey Rybin on piano.

18 December 2009

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The Cardinall's Musick perform Lassus' double-choir Missa Osculetur me. William Byrd is represented by a set of Mass Propers for the Nativity of the Virgin, plus Palestrina's celebratory double-choir Magnificat.

1 December 2009

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Vivaldi: Gloria (1st movt); Whitacre: Lux Arumque; Wickham: The Inn Keeper's Song; Rutter: Nativity Carol; Delibes: Sous le dme épais Lakmé; Sterndale-Bennett: The Carol Singers; Carter: A Maiden Most Gentle; Handel: Zadok The Priest.

19 December 2009

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Christmas has inspired composers for more than five hundred years. The legacy of English and continental composers from the Renaissance is rich and varied. In recent years a 'Second English Renaissance' has seen contemporary composers taking inspiration from plainchant, secular carols and polyphonic masterworks of the sixteenth century. A new tradition of Renaissance-inspired music flourishes in the hands of composers such as Francis Pott, Gabriel Jackson and Robert Hugill. In this programme Chapelle du Roi explores the links between works by Tallis, Palestrina and Guerrero and contemporary composers from England, Scotland and America. The result is a balance of sumptuous textures and harmonies and contrasting approaches to the great Christmas texts.

7 December 2009

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J. S. Bach: Wachet Auf; Jesu Joy; Zion hears the watchmen singing; Organ Voluntary In Dulce Jubilo Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate; Handel: Messiah (Extracts); Trad.: O Come, All Ye Faithful; Deck the Hall; Ding dong merrily on high; Unto Us Is Born A Son; God Rest You Merry Gentlemen; Sans Day Carol; Silent Night; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Hark the Herald Angels Sing; We wish you a Merry Christmas; Howells: A Spotless Rose; Leighton: Lully lulla.