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Tino Sehgal fills Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with storytellers

Anglo-German artist's These Associations is first Turbine Hall installation to use personal interactionA swarm of 70 people is occupying Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. They walk slowly, solemnly,...

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Tino Sehgal: These Associations review

The Berlin-based artist has created one of the best Turbine Hall commissions in which the viewer becomes the subject in a relationship that explores intimacy, communality and the selfAs the crowd moves...

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In the age of the Cultural Olympiad, we're all public performers | Claire Bishop

The latest exhibition at Tate Modern features performers interacting with the public. But it's definitely not high artVisitors to Tate Modern in the past week will have noticed strange activities in...

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Apps Rush: The Unilever Series, Bing Get MeThere, SoFit, Goldstar Savings...

What's new on the app stores on Tuesday 24 July 2012A selection of 13 new and notable apps for you today:Continue reading...

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Tino Sehgal has created a you-had-to-be-there moment at Tate Modern |...

Live art thrives on mystery, so Sehgal made a smart move in banning press photographers from his latest installationYou had to be there. One day in 1971 a young artist called Chris Burden got a friend...

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Tino Sehgal, participatory art and the Booker prize: a week in the arts

Who's on and off the Man Booker longlist, varying responses to Tino Sehgal's new Turbine Hall installation and the Twitter debate about who should be paid in participatory artThe Man Booker longlist...

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Tino Sehgal: These Associations review

Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, LondonThey walk slowly towards us, a rival crowd approaching out of the darkness at the far end of Tate Modern. What will happen when we come face to face with all these...

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Tate Modern's waste of space: why won't interactive art leave me alone?

Being interrogated by a psychic in Tate Modern's new underground art space, The Tanks, was not my idea of fun. Shouldn't art be a contemplative, personal experience?I've just been interrogated by the...

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Unilever ends £4.4m sponsorship of Tate Modern's turbine hall

Search on for new sponsor while hall closes during construction of £215m extension at Bankside galleryUnilever has ended its sponsorship of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall annual commission that has...

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Tate Modern considers activists' wind turbine for art collection

Liberate Tate, an art collective who object to BP sponsorship, have offered the 16 metre turbine blade to the galleryA 1.5 tonne, 16.5 metre-long wind turbine blade carried last month to the Tate...

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Kraftwerk to bring Catalogue shows to Tate Modern

London gallery's director says eight gigs in Turbine Hall in February will be 'true gesamtkunstwerk a total work of art'For a group so closely associated with a vision of the future, Kraftwerk...

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Kraftwerk fans irate after Tate Modern ticketing fiasco

Tate's online booking service for Kraftwerk's forthcoming London gigs crashed, while phone lines were constantly engagedTo say Kraftwerk fans were unhappy might be an understatement. "We are livid,"...

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Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 3 These Associations at Tate Modern

Tino Sehgal's living installation used audience interaction to create an uplifting, enigmatic and endlessly absorbing pieceHe doesn't allow his work to be photographed or filmed, it can't be bought or...

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Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band

Kraftwerk's fusion of art, beats and electronics has become a template copied by musicians everywhere. Now they plan to take London's Tate Modern by stormBack in September 1975, a band played in...

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Kraftwerk: Autobahn - in pictures

Wednesday saw the opening night of Kraftwerk's Catalogue 12345678 retrospective at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. We were there to capture the most intriguing images from the performance of Autobahn, 3D...

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Is Ai Weiwei still an artist?

His activism and plight are the subject of a play, a book and a film. Has his life now overshadowed his art?Ai Weiwei is the most important artist in the world right now, a visionary who is defying an...

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Tacita Dean: JG Ballard, Robert Smithson and me - video preview

Artist Tacita Dean talks to Adrian Searle about her epic search for Robert Smithson's ethereal earthwork Spiral Jetty in Utah and how she discovered that JG Ballard shared her adoration of the land...

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Tate Modern announces huge sponsorship deal with Hyundai

Gallery unveils largest-ever deal with corporate partner as South Korean car company pledges to 11 years of exhibitionsTate Modern has announced its largest and longest corporate sponsorship deal, in...

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Smart art: Hack the Space at Tate Modern

This weekend Tate Modern's Turbine Hall was transformed into a creative hub, with hackers using 'any form of data' to make artWe are all bleeding data. From our email addresses and tweets to our...

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Tate Modern's carnival: all the fun with added turbine power

London's great street festival, Notting Hill carnival, is getting an artistic makeover. We meet the artists taking carnival beyond loud music, jerk chicken and stunning costumesEarlier this week, the...

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