An oil sketch created by JMW Turner on Margate's seafront is about to go on display in the Kent town to mark 250 years since artist's birth. Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate will be on ...

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The producer of Mr Turner, Mike Leigh’s new film, vividly recalls her initial recce of Margate; a place that the romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner returned to again and again ...

It cost £17.5m and took more than 20 years to create a contemporary art gallery celebrating the painter JMW Turner's links with Margate. Sceptics had to be talked round and the first design ...

The exhibition has been specially curated by Inés Richter-Musso and Ortrud Westheider, to represent Turner's paintings of Margate and the Kent coastline, where he regularly visited throughout his ...

Turner Contemporary’s latest exhibition is a stunning display of more than 100 works by the artist JMW Turner, including the fullest survey of the artist’s watercolours of Margate yet to be ...

who absolutely sees herself in the lineage of Margate, famous for Turner and now famous for Tracey, and in those sort of painting traditions.” Emin’s show, her first solo museum exhibition in ...

Turner Contemporary is visible from the beach at Margate, alongside the distinctive Droit House It cost £17.5m and took more than 20 years to create a contemporary art gallery celebrating the ...