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‘I’ll find a way to slip in a great big incongruity from time to time’: René Magritte
In 1947 Magritte gave up what he called his ‘tactile conformism’ partly to distance himself from the rigours of Parisian …
It's all true: The World as a Stage II
Co-curators of the exhibition, ask some of the participating artists about its themes
Lumps, bumps, bulbs, bubbles, bulges, slits, turds, coils, craters, wrinkles and holes
Literary critic and feminist, Elaine Showalter explores the life and work of artist Louise Bourgeois.
Memory frames: Tate Archive
Iain Sinclair visits the Tate archive and unearths the images of a photographer ‘trembling on the brink of life and …
MicroTate 11
Microtate 11: Carsten Nicolai, Duncan Marquis, Piers Faccini and Andrew Graham-Stewart, Tate Etc.
No questions please: Louise Bourgeois
For many years Louise Bourgeois conducted a monthly salon from her house in New York. It was a chance to …
Other worlds: William Blake
William Blake famously declared: “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.” His visionary work is on …
Play on: The World as a Stage
To coincide with the forthcoming The World as a Stage exhibition at , Marie de Brugerolle explores how contemporary …
Poetic encounters: Millais's Chill October
Many of Millais’s late landscapes in Scotland were painted en plein air and given titles inspired by his favourite poems. …
R.I.P.: Henry Lamb's 'Death of a Peasant'
George Shaw sketched his father for several decades, until his death last year. Prompted by a visit to the Tate …
Voice of the invisible: Doris Salcedo
The social, historical and political landscape of Colombia and beyond has deeply informed the work of the artist who is …
Where the wild things are: Animals
When Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping was forced to expel the beasties that inhabited his Theater of the World he …
Inside the eye of the beholder: Edvard Munch II
In 1930, when Munch was 66 years old, an intraocular haemorrhage in his right eye affected his sight. For several …
Experimental fields of light and shadow: Light projections in The Tanks
For many centuries artists have been fascinated by the magical, visceral power of projected light as action, as a performative …
'You look charming. You look enchanting. You look dazzling. You look breathtaking. You look unique. But you don't make an evening.: Art & theatre
‘Since visual art practice has so decisively repudiated, problematised, complicated the whole business of pretending’, says Nicholas Ridout, ‘it's hardly …
'All artists are not chess players – all chess players are artists' Marcel Duchamp: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia II
To coincide with the first exhibition to explore the inter-relationship between Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia at , Allan …
Colour fields: In the studio
Rose Hilton talks about her selection of works for her exhibition at Tate St Ives.
Dealing joyously with gross material facts: The Camden Town Group
Modern Painters: Sickert's famous dictum heralded a move towards a gritty realism in British painting
Living with Niki: Niki de Saint Phalle I
The French-born artist who died in 2002 is perhaps best known for her large, brightly coloured sculptures of female figures, …
MicroTate 12
MicroTate: Camila Batmanghelidjh, Josh Lacey, Hattie Ellis and Thomas Scheibitz on works in Tate collection, Tate Etc. issue 12