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When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean: Alice in Wonderland II
Lewis Carroll demonstrated how inventive one could be with words and their meanings. Since the 1960s artists such as Mel …
'That's my dad': Barry Flanagan II
The daughter and assistant of the artist (from 1987 to 1998) remembers working with her father
'A spit in the eye...': Behind the curtain
On his first visit to the Tate archive, Austin Collings unearths a newspaper cutting on Ian Breakwell’s evocative photographic diary …
The poet of life and sculpture: Barry Flanagan I
He may be best known for his bronze hare sculptures, but Flanagan’s early work using a variety of media such …
Meetings of minds: Barry Flanagan III
Appreications from friends, fellow artists and a former pupil
Kings of the vast: John Martin II
In the early nineteenth century a fashion for enormous paintings flourished, and artists including Martin, Benjamin Haydon and Francis Danby …
Inescapable truths: Gerhard Richter I
ºÚÁÏÉç’s exhibition explores the work produced over almost five decades by one of today’s most highly regarded artists. Richter …
In the heat of the moment: Private View
‘I cannot work it out. I cannot resolve it. It is always different.’ An abstract sculpture of interlocking forged iron …
A graphic wake-up call: Etc. Essay: Inspired by Ernst
In 1933 the pioneering Surrealist Max Ernst created an extraordinary publication called Une semaine de bonté. Arguably the first …
Curiouser and curiouser: Alice in Wonderland I
When Charles Dodgson – more widely known as Lewis Carroll – made drawings in the early 1960s for his book …
Conversations with paintings: The Indiscipline of Painting
This autumn Tate St Ives stages a wide-ranging exhibition focusing on post-war abstract painting by artists from across the world. …
The city of dreams...and shoes: Etc. Essay: Chicano art
This autumn more than 60 cultural institutions throughout southern California will come together to tell the story of the Los …
Away with the fairies: Richard Dadd
The Victorian artist is best known for two things: murdering his father, and painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke while incarcerated …
Steven Shearer Q&A: Venice Biennale
Steven Shearer’s work draws on various styles of figurative painting throughout history, song lyrics and archived images. He collects images …
Something borrowed, something new: René Magritte I
Magritte’s particular style of Surrealism, to be explored in a new show at Tate Liverpool, has become a favourite, with …
The scene is set: Tate Britain New Displays I
Several displays this summer explore ways in which ideas surrounding performance have come to occupy a defining place in art …
Say hello to my python: Joan Miró III
The celebrated zoologist and Surrealist painter shared his first London exhibition with Miró – and introduced him to a snake …
On the roll of a dice: Joan Miró II
When Miró was a penniless painter in Paris in the 1920s, he became friends with the writer Ernest Hemingway, who …
Miró in London: Joan Miró IV
Mike Nelson in conversation
To coincide with Mike Nelson representing Britain at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art, Tate curator Clarrie Wallis talks to …