LONDON.- By popular demand, Tate Britain today announced extended weekend opening hours for its acclaimed exhibitions Lee Miller and Turner & Constable. Both shows will now stay open until 10pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for the next three weeks, starting this evening and running until Lee Miller closes on 15 February. Tickets for these extra time slots go on sale today.

Lee Miller has welcomed over 200,000 visitors so far, meaning it has already become the most popular photography exhibition ever held at any Tate gallery. Now entering its final weeks, tickets are selling fast and some remaining dates have already sold out. The exhibition is the largest retrospective of Miller’s work ever staged and reveals how her innovative and fearless approach to photography produced some of the most iconic images of the modern era.

Less than halfway through its run, Turner & Constable has already attracted over 100,000 visitors and is on track to become one of Tate Britain’s top 5 most popular exhibitions ever. It explores the intertwined lives and legacies of Britain’s two most revered landscape artists, whose rivalry drove them to challenge the conventions of their era and change the course of British art forever.

Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain, said: “From historic landscape painting to groundbreaking modern photography, these inspirational exhibitions invite you to see the world through artists’ eyes. I’m delighted that the next three weekends of late openings will give even more people the chance to do just that.”

This autumn-winter season has been Tate Britain’s busiest in over a decade, with over 620,000 people coming to the gallery since the start of September. Alongside its record-breaking exhibitions, Tate Britain’s free displays currently feature a host of new additions to the national collection, from a 17th century self-portrait by Britain’s first great painter, William Dobson, to a 21st century work by one of today’s most renowned artists, Bridget Riley. There are also solo displays dedicated to the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Prunella Clough, Tony Ray-Jones, Mona Hatoum, P. Staff and Onyeka Igwe.

On the evening of Friday 13 February, the gallery will host a Lee Miller-themed Late at Tate Britain inspired by cutting-edge fashion and surrealism. Visitors can enjoy conversations with visionary designers, drop-in workshops, live jazz performances and DJ sets. In collaboration with Girls in Film, the evening will also showcase new work from the recent Tate Collective open call, created in response to Lee Miller’s extraordinary life and creative legacy.

To celebrate the final weeks of the exhibition, a limited-edition version of the exhibition book is now available to pre-order from Tate Shop. Housed in a bespoke clamshell box, it is stamped, numbered and authorised by the Lee Miller Archive and is accompanied by an exclusive print of one of Miller’s photographs.