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[[Category:Tate galleries|Liverpool]]
[[Category:Tate galleries|Liverpool]]

Latest revision as of 13:47, 14 January 2019

Tate Liverpool

Lancashire


Tate Liverpool
Type: Art gallery
Location
Grid reference: SJ33988979
Location: 53°24’3"N, 2°59’40"W
Town: Liverpool
History
Address: Albert Dock
Art gallery
Information
Owned by: Tate
Website: www.tate.org.uk/liverpool

Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool in Lancashire, which is part of the network of galleries known as 'Tate', along with Tate St Ives in Cornwall; Tate Britain in Westminster, Middlesex; and Tate Modern in Southwark, Surrey.

Tate Liverpool was created, in an initiative of the local development corporation, to display work from the Tate Collection which comprises the national collection of British art from the year 1500 to the present day, and international modern art. The gallery also has a programme of temporary exhibitions. Until 2003, Tate Liverpool was the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in the United Kingdom outside London.

History

The gallery is housed in a converted warehouse within the Albert Dock on Liverpool's waterfront and was opened on 24 May 1988 by HRH Prince Charles, an event covered by BBC Two television. [1][2] It is The original conversion was done by James Stirling but the building was given a major refurbishment in 1998 to create additional gallery space.

In 2007, the foyer area was redesigned to create an updated appearance and better proportions, as well as to improve visitor handling. The gallery café was also redesigned. The centrepiece of the space is a new timber desk with an undulating orange fascia, which links to the retained colour scheme of the original conversion work by Stirling. A colour-changing wall acts as a backdrop to the simplified brick volume, visible from across Albert Dock.

Live Events

The gallery has hosted numerous live events in the foyer, including Made Up Mix as part of Liverpool's Biennial of Contemporary Art.[3][4] This event featured Die Plankton[5] performing a show that was recorded for their "Yorkshire's Answers To The Beatles" live album.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Tate Liverpool)

References


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