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Family pleasures: Behind the curtain
Henrietta Garnett, a regular visitor to the Tate archive, recognises two painted calendars done by her grandmother Vanessa Bell.
The reversibility of the real: Pierre Huyghe
The French art critic Nicholas Bourriaud examines the ways in which Pierre Huyghe enjoys upsetting traditional expectations of how art …
The emotional gaze: Sylvia Sleigh at Tate Liverpool
Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010) was a Welsh-born realist painter who spent much of her life in New York with her husband, …
A Dramatic Reading of Augustus Leopold Egg’s Untitled Triptych
This article explores the significance of the theatrical and literary references found in the triptych Past and Present 1858 by …
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair 1932 by Pablo Picasso
This sensual portrait of Picasso’s lover Marie-Thérèse Walter was painted at the artist’s Normandy estate in 1932. Picasso dated this …
More than the art world can tolerate: Otto Muehl's Manopsychotic Ballet
Why was Otto Meuhl's 1970 performance Manopsychotic Ballet forgotten?
Tate St Ives Artists Programme
Providing a productive environment which values experimentation and risk, discussion and debate
William Blake's The Ghost of a Flea: Tate Etc. at Tate Britain / Artists' Perspectives
In celebration of the reopening of Tate Britain, Tate Etc. invited a selection of artists from around the world to …
MicroTate 37
Four new perspectives on works in the Tate collection
Fast forward: Eadweard Muybridge II
Who is Sheela Gowda?
Get to know the processes and materials behind the installations of Sheela Gowda
The great collaborator: DalÃ
In 1976 Salvador Dalà made a film with José Montes Baquer called Impressions of Upper Mongolia, Hommage to Raymond Roussel …
Meetings of minds: Barry Flanagan III
Appreications from friends, fellow artists and a former pupil
Memory frames: Tate Archive
Iain Sinclair visits the Tate archive and unearths the images of a photographer ‘trembling on the brink of life and …
Decolonising Nigerian Modernism: Ben Enwonwu’s ‘Identity in Politics’
The personal archive of the celebrated Nigerian modernist painter Ben Enwonwu (1917–1994) reveals his understanding of the effects of colonialism …
Vincent van Gogh: The Pilgrim Painter
Van Gogh spent formative years between 1873 and 1876 living and working as an art dealer, and later a teacher, …
An Alternative National Gallery: Blake’s 1809 Exhibition and the Attack on Evangelical Culture
This essay suggests that Blake’s 1809 exhibition was haunted by the memory of the Irish painter James Barry (1741–1806) and …
Alan Uglow: From Britain to America
The British painter Alan Uglow left London in 1969 to permanently live in New York where he became associated with …
What Would Tutuola Do?
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was a self-taught writer who began his career by recording Yoruba folktales and rewriting them in Nigerian …
Prisoners of love: Early bondage
English visual art contains a wealth of bondage imagery, particularly from Aubrey Beardsley, the master of the whiplash line. James …