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Up close and personal: Tate Britain New Displays II
Tate Britain’s recent rehang, which follows a broadly chronological sequence, includes focused individual displays that highlight new research as well …
The white cube and beyond: Museum display
In an age when installations, art environments, ‘scatter art’ and large-scale mixed media works are the norm, the traditional confines …
Where can I get a whale skeleton?: Gabriel Orozco II
In 2006 Gabriel Orozco installed an 11.7 metre grey whale skeleton in Mexico City’s José Vasconcelos Library. But how did …
When the future was now: Nam June Paik
The pioneering Korean-born artist and composer Nam June Paik (1932–2006), who famously declared that the ‘future is now’, is considered …
What am I looking at?: Gabriel Orozco III
A fellow artist celebrates several well-known works
Take courage: Behind the curtain
In her exploration of the Design Research Unit, one of the first British design consultants, Michelle Cotton unearths an unrealistic …
Romanticism gets real: British landscape photography
The Romanticism display in the Clore Galleries at Tate Britain features more than 170 paintings and prints, as well as …
Poem of the month: Butterfly Antennae
Poem of the Month, Butterfly Antennae by James Midgley, TATE ETC issue 21
A nuclear masquerade: Project for a Masquerade at Tate St Ives
On the eve of his exhibition at Tate St Ives, the former Turner Prize winner introduces a fascinating project that …
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Contemporary reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Everything is illuminated: Document: Künstlergruppe Brücke
In 1905 four young Dresden art students, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Fritz Bleyl, set up the …
The early adventures: Gabriel Orozco I
Since it was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1993, Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box has become one of most …
The deliberate accident in art: Blots
Ever since Leonardo da Vinci urged artists to search for inspiration in the dirt on walls or the streaked patterns …
A connoisseur of uncertainty: Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller: In her mixed-media installations and video works, Susan Hiller’s art journeys through the intangible landscapes of imagination, dreams …
Colour me British: Watercolour I
Tate Britain is staging a grand survey of watercolour painting in Great Britain, from the early thirteenth century through to …
A centre of intelligence: Mathaf: The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Simon Grant, editor of Tate Etc. visits the inauguration of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha
Burn, canvas, burn: Joan Miró
While the work of Joan Miró (1893–1983) may be well known across the world, a forthcoming exhibition at ºÚÁÏÉç …
Books Etc. The Surreal House reviewed
The Surreal House, by Jane Alison with essays by Mary Ann Caws, Brian Dillon and others. Published by Barbican …
Staring into the contemporary abyss: The contemporary sublime
In the early eighteenth century Joseph Addison described the notion of the sublime as something that ‘fills the mind with …
‘The Process of Drawing is like Writing a Diary: It's a Nice Way of Thinking About Time Passing’: Rachel Whiteread
To coincide with Tate Britain’s exhibition of the artist’s drawings, as well as the objects from her personal collection that …