BP Spotlight: Art and Alcohol

Name: BP Spotlight: Art and Alcohol
Start: 2016-04-07T10:00Z+01:00
End: 2016-09-30T18:00Z+01:00

10:00am – 6:00pm

Free

Millbank

Free display exploring the role of alcohol in British art and society from 19th Century to modern times. It highlights two works from Tate’s collection, George Cruikshank’s Worship of Bacchus,and Gilbert & George’s Drinking Sculpture, a wall-mounted montage of photographs (progressively blurred) of drinkers in London.

(Becky Lima-Matthews)

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Dates

7th Apr–30th Sep, 2016

Start/End Time 10:00am – 6:00pm

Venue Tate Britain

Entry Free

External link Official site

Area

Millbank

Closest station(s)

Pimlico, Vauxhall, Westminster

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