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  1. Less than 2 weeks til the winner of Turner Prize 2010 is announced! Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy will present the prize live on Channel 4
  2. Don't miss the 70s style Magic Mirror Ball @TateLiverpool this week http://bit.ly/83miS2 http://bit.ly/58f97k
  3. Spotted: David Hockney at Tate Britain. Here to see the new display of his huge painting: Bigger Trees Near Warter http://pic.gd/663e99
  4. From this week, we're tweeting dispatches from emerging artists worldwide: from Zimbabwe to China http://bit.ly/15GsHy #imagineartafter
  5. Tate Britain is working with @ImagineArtAfter. Launching this Sunday, Artists + filmakers worldwide in conversation. http://bit.ly/15GsHy
  6. join a panel of top curators & thinkers for a talk that traces revolutionary events & art history. tomorrow TateModern http://bit.ly/186q7N
  7. New TateShots! Michael Bracewell introduces The Dark Monarch, a show about supernatural influences on British art http://bit.ly/Vnk5f
  8. Free contemporary art space at Tate Modern - Level 2 Gallery. See stunning work by artist Jill Magid http://bit.ly/cLPdo
  9. A major series of films by Harun Farocki, one of Germany‘s most respected filmmakers, starts at Tate Modern Friday! http://bit.ly/1wmAO7
  10. RT @fezbop Is visiting Pop Life at the Tate modern!
  11. Nicholas Serota said of Penelope Curtis “She has made an outstanding contribution to the study of sculpture” http://bit.ly/1cEqPN
  12. New director of Tate Britain announced: Penelope Curtis, curator of the Henry Moore Institute http://bit.ly/1cEqPN
  13. RT @nationaltrust: Two for one entry to National Trust properties linked to Turner when you visit @Tate exhibition http://bit.ly/1pNSQE
  14. RT @se1 Turner Prize shortlisted artist Roger Hiorns listed as Evening Standard influential http://bit.ly/1fbfod
  15. Silent Disco on litup dance floor at @tateliverpool this Thurs: Yousef, Hot Club de Paris, Hive Collective, Greg Wilson http://bit.ly/QaeWk
  16. We are very proud to announce that Tate Kids http://kids.tate.org.uk/ has been nominated for two Children's Baftas http://bit.ly/3Lzznc
  17. Turner was better know as ‘Admiral Booth’ by his friends (because of his relationship with widow Sophia Booth)
  18. Turner was moved to weep by his fear that he might never equal the achievements of Claude Lorrain. see them here http://bit.ly/1zmrrk
  19. Turner grew his thumbnail long, like an ‘eagle-claw’, so that he could scratch into his washes of watercolour http://bit.ly/2MYoKU
  20. Turner the publican: he owned a pub called The Ship and Bladebone, in Wapping. Calling all pub-goers in Wapping – is it still there?