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We are delighted that last year ARTIST ROOMS: Roy Lichtenstein was seen by 200,000 visitors, helping to make 2015 a record year for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art! Read more about it here .

We are delighted to announce the new ARTIST ROOMS touring programme, which will travel to over 30 UK venues. Special thanks must go to Phyllida Barlow, the 40th artist to join the collection, who has so generously gifted untitled: upturnedhouse, 2 (2012), now on display at Level 4, Tate Modern

Tate and other museums around the UK will be able to stage comprehensive exhibitions of Ed Ruscha’s extraordinary works on paper, after the artist committed to donating one impression of all the prints he creates for the rest of his life. Ruscha is widely regarded as one of the world’s

An evening talk by Christian Weikop, on 15 October at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery Dr Christian Weikop examines how three giants of the post-1945 German art scene refigured painting to critically reflect on German history and art history. Dr Weikop, Chancellor’s Fellow in History of Art at the

The Bowes Museum is pleased to present the work of renowned American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The works in the exhibition are drawn from the collection of ARTIST ROOMS, owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, which holds one of the most significant collections of Mapplethorpe’s photographs in the

Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery plays hosts an ARTIST ROOM by one of the world's greatest living artists. Recognised as one of of the key figures of postwar European art, Gerhard Richter consistently identifies himself as a painter. His ongoing investigation into the process of painting started over 50

Aberystwyth Arts Centre presents ARTIST ROOMS: Robert Mapplethorpe from 7 August to 7 November 2015. Mapplethorpe is recognised as one of the key artists of the late twentieth century and the Centre is delighted to be able to bring this outstanding collection of his work to its audiences. Encompassing self

Students in Fife learn how to take photographs like Diane Arbus in an ARTIST ROOMS workshop led by photographer Alicia Bruce. 'If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, “I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell

Photographs from ARTIST ROOMS collection included in new edition of poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti. If you have never heard about the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, Like Leaves in Autumn , edited by Carlo Pirozzi and Katherine Lockton and published by Luath Press, will allow you to approach his works in

A selection of Damien Hirst works held in ARTIST ROOMS on display at The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney. The exhibition will provide an opportunity to view Hirst’s work alongside the Centre’s Collection of twentieth and twenty-first century modern art and in particular to highlight the connections between Hirst and