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Tate Modern's permanent galleries

Matisse, Picasso and Rothko for free, in a power station the size of a cathedral.

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In Tate Modern.

The collection displays are free and take up most of the building. They are grouped by idea rather than by date — In the Studio on how work gets made, Performer and Participant on the art of the 1960s to the 1990s that needed an audience to finish it, Materials and Objects on artists who reached for the wrong materials on purpose, Media Networks on what mass media did to painting — with an ARTIST ROOMS display given over to one artist at a time. Matisse's Snail, Picasso, Yayoi Kusama and the Rothko room are among what is usually out, though Tate rehangs, so a particular painting is worth checking before a journey. The Turbine Hall is the other reason to come: five storeys of empty space with one commission in it, free to walk through. Underneath it are the Tanks, the power station's old oil drums, kept for live performance and film.

Where
Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG
Nearest station
London Blackfriars · 5 min walk

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