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Out of the blue: Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures'
‘I first set my eyes on it one Saturday morning in Rough Trade in late June 1979. The record had …
A Study in denim: Peter Blake
Upon its prize-winning appearance at the 1961 John Moores’ Exhibition in Liverpool, Peter Blake’s Self-Portrait with Badges 1961 rapidly became …
Warhol stumbled across 'The Real America' in the pantry of a woman who never adapted to the American way of life: Gilda Williams on Andy Warhol's Mother
Gilda Williams looks at the most influential person in Andy Warhol's life – his mother Julia Warhola.
Figure it out: Tate Liverpool Rehang
Jonathan Harris interprets Tate Liverpool’s comprehensive rehang, and how it shows many of the works in the collection in a …
Half woman, half goddess: Nicholas Hilliard's 'Queen Elizabeth I'
There are many portraits of Elizabeth I, but few reflect her image as steely icon as perfectly as the one …
Memory frames: Tate Archive
Iain Sinclair visits the Tate archive and unearths the images of a photographer ‘trembling on the brink of life and …
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 …
Strangely familiar: Norma Jeane
Norma Jeane is the alias of an artist who never appears in public and has no studio, using Marilyn Monroe’s …
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 …
A Rye view: Edward Burra
He had six paintings in London’s International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936, but was never formally a surrealist. His work has …
Thirty years of eternity: Walter de Maria
Broken Kilometer, as Kellein writes, surpasses many other great works: "Even Barnett Newman's 'zip' paintings, Dan Flavin's fluorescent tube …
Balthus: a personal view
Denyse Bertoni writes how she got a rare interview with the artist – whose life and work is celebrated at …
Books Etc. Lawrence Weiner
Claire Nichols reviews Lawrence Weiner’s As Far as the Eye Can See. Edited by Donna De Salvo and Ann …
Esprit ¶Ù鳦´Ç°ù: Marcel Broodthaers
In 1975 the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) made the piece ¶Ù鳦´Ç°ù for the ICA, London. A large crab and …
The mob who shouldn't really be here: King Mob
The radical 1960s English group King Mob called themselves the ‘gangsters of the new freedom’, and combined hard-edged politics with …
Neuro ways of seeing: Neuroarthistory
In his new book Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki, John Onians argues that advances in the …
Gustav Klimt and the 1908 Kunstschau: Gustav Klimt and the 1908 Kunstschau
At the Belvedere, Vienna, until 18 January 2009
My dearest Clive...: Behind the curtain
Inspired by her mother’s love letters to her father, Tishani Doshi reads the moving correspondence in the Tate archive between …
The sharks begin eating the fish
Peter Campus talks to Tate Etc. about his recent work
The transcendence of the image: Leonora Carrington
A visit to the Tate not only prompts a journey to track down the Surrealist painter Leonora Carringotn at her …