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Hold still: Performing for the Camera at ºÚÁÏÉç
Photography changed the way we look at ourselves and how we might act in front of a camera. But it …
Lives of the Artists: Běla Kolářová
Běla Kolářová’s (1923–2010) experiments with photography and assemblage brought the everyday into direct contact with the aesthetic of a new …
MicroTate 36
New reflections on two works by Bridget Riley and Claude Cahun
Sitting for Hockney
Wayne Sleep and George Lawson recall the experience of sitting for David Hockney between 1972-5
Vanessa Bell, Abstract Painting c.1914: A poem by Jack Underwood
A poem by Jack Underwood in response to Vanessa Bell's 'Abstract Painting', c.1914
Walking in unquiet landscapes
Other traditions run through depictions of the British landscape, below and beyond romantic idealisations. Here, Robert Macfarlane traces a history …
Artist Sketchbooks: Stanley Spencer
Adrian Glew leafs through one of Stanley Spencer’s sketchbooks in the Tate Archive
Behind the Curtain: Gangsters of the New Freedom
Documents on the 1960s radical anti-art activist group King Mob spark the interest of one visitor to the Tate Archive
Georgia O'Keeffe: Artists' views
Five artists from different generations share their personal reflections on Georgia O’Keeffe
The Hidden Hand: Marco Pasi
Art is usually made by the ‘hand of the artist’, but for centuries artists, from William Blake and Georgiana Houghton …
Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
In the late 19th century the writer and photographer Peter Henry Emerson collaborated with the artist Thomas Frederick Goodall to …
MicroTate 37
Four new perspectives on works in the Tate collection
My Memories of an Indian Master
Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) was an acclaimed artist both in India and internationally. Active from the 1960s, he was part of …
My Teacher: James Dyson on Maurice de Sausmarez
In our ongoing series celebrating the value and lasting impact of teachers, James Dyson, inventor of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner …
'Never take anything for what it appears to be': Ali Smith on Mona Hatoum
Writer Ali Smith grapples with the wordplay, multiple resonance and multiple meaning – ‘the feeling of not being able to …
Edward Krasiński's 'Spear' (1964)
‘Spears hung from the wires stretched between the trees created an illusion of movement. They were swishing [in the air]. …
My Teacher: Phyllida Barlow on George Fullard
Phyllida Barlow, who represents Great Britain at the 2017 Venice Biennale, remembers her influential teacher, the sculptor George Fullard
First Encounters with Rauschenberg: Mark Bradford
The Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford, who represents his country at the 2017 Venice Biennale and is known as much …
First Encounters with Rauschenberg: Richard Wentworth
Richard Wentworth relives teenage memories from the early 1960s when he visited an extraordinary exhibition by Robert Rauschenberg in London’s …
Hockney's World of Pictures
Martin Gayford recounts how, for more than 60 years, Hockney has been breaking boundaries