THE RIVER MAGAZINE | Spring 2017 27 Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017 To 11 June This is Wolfgang Tillmans’s first ever exhibition at Tate Modern and brings together works in an exciting variety of media – photographs, of course, but also video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music – all staged by the artist in characteristically innovative style. The year 2003 is the exhibition’s point of departure, representing for Tillmans the moment the world changed, with the invasion of Iraq and anti-war demonstrations. The social and political form a rich vein throughout the artist’s work. The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection To 21 May 2017 This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see one of the world’s greatest private collections of photography, drawn from the classic modernist period of the 1920s–50s. An incredible Glass Tears by Man Ray 1932 in ‘The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection’ Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney 1971, in ‘David Hockney’ group of Man Ray portraits are exhibited together for the first time, having been brought together by Sir Elton John over the past twenty-five years, including portraits of Matisse, Picasso, and Breton. | C U L T U R E |