Tate Modern’s Frances Morris: ‘If it rained I went to the museum. That had a huge impact’

In her first interview since being appointed director of the world’s most popular contemporary art gallery, Frances Morris talks about its major new expansion, the morality of sponsorship, and her vision for the institution’s future

Damien Hirst and Picasso: coming soon to a National Gallery near you?

Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars

The most visited exhibitions in London in this cultural season

The Victoria & Albert Museum hosted the three best-attended exhibitions in London this year. “Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty” show at V&A Museum was the most popular London exhibition in 2014/2015, according to a survey by LondonExhibitions.  A total of 493,043 tickets were sold for the show, making it the V&A’s most popular exhibition in its … Read more

Ai Weiwei, Julian Assange and graffiti grannies – the week in art

Ai Weiwei and the Celts conquer London. Plus extraordinary outsider artists, endangered buildings and the real Alice in Wonderland – in your weekly dispatch

Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new

The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?

Rowan Moore’s top 10 exhibitions of 2014

Parking lots in Los Angeles, arty wind tunnels, Dada collages and 1960s visions of future living – Rowan Moore picks his favourite shows of the year