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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 …
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 …
Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in England, 1969: Notes from an ancient island
Robert Smithson, best known for his Land Art piece Spiral Jetty, and Nancy Holt, best known for her work …
On the hoof and shooting from the hip: Another London
Between 1930 and 1980 photographers from across the globe came to capture the essence of London. To coincide with an …
The soul laid bare: Edvard Munch at ºÚÁÏÉç I
The Norwegian artist is best known for his pictures of moody lovers and tortured souls. However, these were not merely …
Style matters: Alex Katz in conversation
The artistic director of Tate St Ives visited one of America’s most respected artists working today, in his New York …
Taking a story for a walk: Sung Hwan Kim in The Tanks
The first commission for the East Tank is by the notable South Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim (born 1975), who …
Tate's curators reveal their vision for The Tanks: The Tanks at ºÚÁÏÉç
The first season of performance, choreography and film programmes in the new Tanks at ºÚÁÏÉç has grown out of …
Welcome to his situation...: Tino Sehgal's Turbine Hall commission
The work of the British-born German artist Tino Sehgal exists solely as a set of choreographed gestures and spoken instructions …
It's all about the process
Doug Aitken at Tate Liverpool – The American artist has created his first public realm installation in the UK, featuring …
Rudely transgressing the boundaries between the elevated and the profane: Etc. Essay: The grotesque
The notion of the grotesque in art has been around for centuries, but it is currently being re-imagined, often with …
They shook me: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain II
The guitarist and founder of Led Zeppelin is a fan and collector of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites. He talks …
The ambiguous pleasures of Puritanism: William Scott at Tate St Ives
William Scott (1913–1989) is known for his still lifes, landscapes and nudes produced over a 60-year period. A friend of …
Colossus of the camera: Francis Frith: Photographs at Tate Britain
The spectacular images created by an Englishman that first revealed the sights along the Nile for those back home
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, …
Family colours: Robert Bevan and the Camden Town Group
Tate's online research project, The Camden Town Group in Context, brings together much new material on the artists in this …
The first abstract artist? (And it's not Kandinsky): Focus: Hilma Af Klint
Wassily Kandinsky is generally regarded as the pioneer of abstract art. However, a Swedish woman called Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) …
A liberation from the ordinary: Peter Fraser at Tate St Ives
A basket of crayons, a colourful conch, a pile of berries, two blue buckets on the floor. Peter Fraser’s photographs …
Mexican encounters: Tate Acquisition I
Melanie Smith’s video Xilitla, which focuses on Edward James’s extraordinary gothic Mexican garden Las Pozas de Xilitla, was purchased …
MicroTate 27
Caterina Albano, Hong Ling, Rosa Barba and Henry Holland reflect on works in the Tate collection, including a recent purchase …