The Switch House at Tate Modern has apparently increased exhibition space by 60% and here is some of the work now on general view. I’m warning you now, this is probably longer than a minute’s read.
Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum is keen for the audience to interact with his work – they certainly were here in part of his piece Capsules (NBP x me-you) 2000.
I almost missed Corridor with Mirror and White Lights by Bruce Nauman as it was tucked away in a corner by a window. 
Women artists are finally better represented; Pavilion Suspended in a Room 1 by Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias is an open structure with woven lattice panels including words and phrases from Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
You can’t see the shadows here projected by Gego’s Horizontal Square Reticularia 71/10 – I love the fragility of it as well as the movement. I’d already admired her work shown in Radical Geometry at the Royal Academy.
Beirut Caoutchouc, a rubber map of Beirut by Marwan Rechmaoui had adults intrigued and children delighted
while we were all trying to get closer to Roni Horn’s glass Pink Tons.
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