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Looking down from above: Private view
The acclaimed Amercian artist reveals a long-held fascination with Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1829–1896), one of °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s most admired …
Lure of the wild: Watercolour II
The artist Francis Towne’s near abstract eighteenth-century watercolours of Swiss glaciers were to inspire Eric Ravilious more than a century …
The Magritte connection: La Carte D'Après Nature at New National Museum Monaco
La Carte D’Après Nature, curated by Thomas Demand, New National Museum of Monaco, Villa Paloma, Monaco until 22 February …
MicroTate 21
Contemporary reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Nothing works: The void
Marcel Duchamp’s phial of Paris air, Yves Klein’s The Void exhibition, Martin Creed’s Work No.227: The lights going on and …
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 …
Poem of the month: Butterfly Antennae
Poem of the Month, Butterfly Antennae by James Midgley, TATE ETC issue 21
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 …
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 …
What am I looking at?: Gabriel Orozco III
A fellow artist celebrates several well-known works
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Documents for the world: ºÚÁÏÉç New Displays I
The documentary photograph has a history as old as the art itself, but recent practitioners from across the globe, some …
Domes for doomsday: Etc. Essay
The enduring legacy of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes
Drawing the vortex: The Vorticists II
The British avant-garde group was formed in London in 1914 by the artist, writer and polemicist Wyndham Lewis. Their idea, …
In the freewheeling world of the mind: René Magritte II
The Belgian Surrealist remains an influential figure among contemporary artists. Tate Etc.’s Mariko Finch spoke to four admirers. One shares …
G.F. Watts: symbolist and star-gazer
G.F. Watts (1817–1904) has been variously described as one of the ‘heroic failures of British art’ and ‘shallow and pretentious’. …
The Hepworth family gift
The recently opened Hepworth Wakefield gallery includes an impressive selection of Barbara Hepworth’s relatively unknown plaster and aluminium prototypes that …