Review by Martin Gayford [Bloomberg] -- Vincent van Gogh's letters and Irving Penn's portraits of Nicole Kidman and Marlene Dietrich will be among star exhibits at European art shows in 2010. Van Gogh once more steps into the limelight in a year that is the 120th anniversary of his suicide at the age of 37. The most important Van ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A giant "black hole" has been created in the cavernous turbine hall of London's Tate Modern museum, in the 10th annual installment of the Unilever Series. Polish artist Miroslaw Balka has constructed a huge steel container, held aloft on two-meter high supports, which is open at the far end of the space as visitors enter. They ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Tate Modern gallery said on Thursday it had closed a room at its new blockbuster exhibition that contains a naked image of actress Brooke Shields aged 10, after police launched an investigation. The image, taken by artist Richard Prince in 1983 from another photograph, shows the U.S. star posing nude in a bathtub wearing heavy ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Tate museums will present shows on Gauguin, Picasso and Henry Moore in the coming season, as well as exhibitions featuring cartoons, CCTV footage and black artists' influence on modernism. The four museums -- two in London and one in Liverpool and St. Ives, Cornwall -- will be hoping that a mixture of established names and less well-known artists ...