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Lives of the Artists: Mrinalini Mukherjee
Her beautifully crafted fibre scuptures evoked 'wizened spiritual beings,' as one writer remembers
Clore Commission: Martin Boyce
The artist tells of the enduring influence on his work of Jan and Joël Martel's cubist sculptures
Modigliani and 'La Poétesse Anglaise'
‘When I know your soul I will paint your eyes.’ Amedeo Modigliani, whose work is the subject of a large-scale …
New Voices: Speaking in Half-Whispers
Getting under the skin of Dorothea Tanning's enigmatic painting, A Mi-Voix 1958
Portfolio: I See Our True Colours
The photographer looks back at his book The Pleasure Principle, which captured the kaleidoscopic hedonism of 1980s England
Rachel Whiteread: The Gran Boathouse
To coincide with her exhibition at Tate Britain, Tate Etc. visited one of Rachel Whiteread's lesser known public sculptures in …
Interview: Rebecca Warren – 'From the mess of experience'
In the run-up to Rebecca Warren's All That Heaven Allows- New and Recent Works 2017, the inaugural exhibition for …
Private View: Stay as you are, Mrs Blake
William Blake's simple pencil drawing of his (long-suffering) wife Catherine reveals the tenderness in their relationship
Surrealism in Egypt: ‘Long Live Degenerate Art’
The Art and Liberty group was active in Cairo from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, a time of political …
The Ghost
Spirits, phantoms and apparitions have had an enduring presence in art and literature, but how has their appearance and behaviour …
Unsung Heroes: Alberto Greco
One artist remembers their friend, the founder of Vivo-Dito art
Point of View: Art in Hospitals
Art in hospitals can be a culturally significant experience if the approach is right
Objects That Speak for Themselves
Since the birth of humans as sentient beings, we have believed in the animistic nature of things – of plants, …
Details, Details: Joseph Beuys's Coyote 1974
Beuys's infamous 1974 action I like America and America Likes Me
Interview: Joan Jonas – The Performer
Joan Jonas is an artist and filmmaker who, in the early 1970s, pioneered the use of video and performance in …
Opinion: 'Middlebrow' art
‘Highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ art – the cultural hierarchies have been with us for over 100 years, but it is time …
Opinion: Art and Democracy
A response to Ai Weiwei's quotation on art's relation to democracy