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Bank Holiday heaven at Tate Modern.

20/05/2008

If you’re lucky enough to be in the capital this weekend, there’s only one place you need to be – Tate Modern.

The gallery, in conjunction with investment firm UBS, has put together a fantastic collection of contemporary art, live performances and, for the first time, street art, as part of its annual cultural event, The Long Weekend.

During the day, the gallery will be buzzing with performances and opportunities for family involvement, themed around the States of Flux Collection, which explores change, progress and movement.

The collection includes several stunning canvas art pieces by Henri Matisse such as Standing Nude 1907 and Reading Woman with Parasol 1921. There’s also a chance to see Lichstenstein’s original Whaam!, his dispassionate and ironic response to the dramas of war, painted in 1963.

Other fine art on display includes works by Pierre Bonnard, Gustav Klimt and Umberto Boccioni, one of the leading artists of the Futurist movement.

The focus turns to the Turbine Hall in the evening for a series of engaging music and visuals events.

The hottest tickets are for Nan Goldin with Patrick Wolf and John Kelly on the Saturday night.

The Tate says the show is a “spectacular presentation of Nan Goldin’s iconic slide projections, her fiercely moving and personal diary of a lost urban bohemia, accompanied by live performances from Patrick Wolf and John Kelly.”

It adds: “Two of Goldin’s slideshows will feature during the evening: The Other Side and The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, which consist of hundreds of impassioned photographs taken between the 1970s and 1980s.”

There is also the opportunity to see the exhibitions Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Street & Studio and Street Art.

For more information, visit the Tate’s website at www.tate.org.uk