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Tate Britain is the best art museum in London

After a difficult start, Tate Britain is now leading the pack in its presentation of the past, present and future of British art

Artist wins Turner Prize with help of Homer Simpson, Felix the Cat

British artist Mark Leckey speaks after winning the 2008 Turner Prize at the Tate Britain in London on Monday.British artist Mark Leckey speaks after winning the 2008 Turner Prize at the Tate Britain in London on Monday.

Tate Times Painting Challenge winner is surreal

Imagine running your hands through your hair and finding that each dangling lock has turned into a living tarantula's leg. Imagine looking up into a chestnut tree and noticing that one of the spiny green conker shells is actually an eyeball and is watching you.

Tate Britain To Re-Stage William Blake's 1809 Solo Exhibition

William Blake, Jacob's Ladder 1799-1806. Pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper © The Trustees of the British Museum

Blake retrospective: Tate stages 1809 show

Even by today's sometimes vicious standards, the visionary artist William Blake received a critical bludgeoning for his first and only one-man show.

Visual art review: The Fifth Floor, Tate Liverpool

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 00.01 GMT on Tuesday 6 January 2009. It appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday 6 January 2009 on p32 of the Reviews section. It was last updated at 00.03 GMT on Tuesday 6 January 2009.

Warcraft Critic Resigns from FCC Early

Debra Taylor Tate has resigned from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - the US government agency charged with "regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable".

The Fifth Floor

The curious thing about the Fifth Floor at Tate Liverpool is that lifts only go up to four. But the idea has been to create a "social space full of imagination and invention", based on conversations with the public about what they want to see.

This Just In: Video Games Are Distracting

Compulsive online gaming is becoming a significant reason behind the recent upswing in college student dropouts, according to Federal Communications Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate.

When the Turner Prize was interesting

Don't you find yourself missing the years when the tabloids raged, artists protested, and anarchists burned money on the steps of the Tate?

Mark Leckey Scoops 25,000 And The 2008 Turner Prize

Mark Leckey, the Liverpudlian film based artist, has won the 2008 Turner Prize at an award ceremony this evening, December 1 2008, at Tate Britain.

FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering

snydeq writes "Ars Technica's Nate Anderson and InfoWorld's Paul Venezia provide worthwhile commentary on a recent speech by FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate (PDF), in which she praised DRM as 'very effective' and raised a flag in favor of ISP filtering. Anderson: 'Having commissioners who feel that the government has a duty to partner with and back educational classroom content from the RIAA; who really believe that ISP filtering is so unproblematic we can stop considering objections; and who think that universities worry about file-swapping because tuition might be raised to pay for the needed "expansion of storage capabilities" (huh?) isn't good for the FCC and isn't good for America.' Venezia: 'Leave the ISPs out of it — it's not their job to protect a failing business model, and a movement toward a tiered and filtered Internet

Video Artist Wins Britain's Turner Prize

Mark Leckey, a multimedia artist whose exhibition “Industrial Light & Magic� combines recreated images of Felix the Cat, Homer Simpson and the movie “Titanic,� won the 2008 Turner Prize on Monday, the BBC reported. The annual prize, presented by the Tate Gallery in London to a British artist under the age of 50, comes with an award of about $37,000, and is often given to creators of untraditional and provocative works. Mr. Leckey, a professor of film studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, was presented with the prize by the rock musician Nick Cave at a ceremony. According to the judges, Mr. Leckey’s work “celebrates the imagination of the individual and our potential to inhabit, reclaim or animate an idea, a space or an object,� the BBC said.

Do Video Games Cause Kids to Drop Out?

"You might find it alarming that one of the top reasons for college dropouts in the U.S. is online gaming addiction - such as World of Warcraft - which is played by 11 million individuals," said FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate in an address at the Practicing Law Institute (reported by Game Politics).

Call for Artists: Balck and White

The 5th Annual Black and White Spider Awards CALL FOR ENTRIES is officially now open. Don't miss the opportunity to have your work exhibited before the world's most prestigious galleries, curators, publishers, and dealers of black & white photography, including Sotheby's, VII, Tate Gallery, PDN, Bonni Benrubi, Fratelli Alinari, Heffel Fine Arts, Communications Arts and more. You can only win by entering your work, so make sure you submit your best black & white to be considered for a Spider Award. Enter by Friday, December 19th, to take advantage of early entry pricing!

Turner Prize for Brit professor

Britain’s most controversial contemporary art award, the Turner Prize, was awarded to Londoner Mark Leckey on Monday night. Forty-four-year-old Leckey, who was a bookie favourite to win the prestigious prize, is professor of film studies at Stadelschule, Frankfurt. His name was announced at Tate Britain on Monday night during a ceremony hosted by Nick Cave.]

Strange Closets Home Design Blog Announces New Format and Addition of Regular Contributors

Strange Closets Home Design Blog Announces New Format and Addition of Regular Contributors New Writers Include Chicago's DesignWatcher, Manhattan's Habitually Chic and Island Girl Salvage Owner and Planet Green Regular Tabitha Long CHICAGO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Strange Closets blurs the distinction between home design blogs and magazines with the addition of several new contributors and the launch of a redesigned magazine-style format that includes Twitter. Popular original features such as weekly home tours, interviews and shop reviews will continue. Joining founder and freelance writer/photographer Tate Gunnerson are: -- Island Girl Salvage owner and Planet Green regular Tabitha Long -- Interior Designer and blogger Heather Clawson of New York City's Habitually Chic -- Interior Designers Nicholas Moriarty of Nicholas Moriarty Interior

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