| Web Page: | www.tate.org.uk/liverpool | | Personal Profile: | Tate Liverpool houses two main types of
exhibits: displays from the Tate
Collection and special exhibitions of
modern and contemporary art. The
special exhibition programme brings
together works from national and
international collections, both public and
private. Since the gallery opened in
1988, Tate Liverpool has had over 150
different exhibitions and collection
displays of work by hundreds of different
artists, some seen for the first time in
the UK at Tate Liverpool.
Major exhibitions include Salvador Dali:
A Mythology (1998), Shopping: A
Century of Art and Consumer Culture
(2002-03) and Summer of Love: Art of
the Psychedelic Era (2005). Tate
Liverpool hosted the Turner Prize 2007,
the first time the prize had been
presented outside London since it began
in 1984, as a curtain-raiser for Liverpool
European Capital of Culture 2008.
| | Personal Profile Source: | online statement- http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/about.htm | | Personal Profile Source Date: | site accessed 19/08/2008 | | Type: | organisation |
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