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Seven faces of the art vandal
From the suffragette who took a cleaver to Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery in 1914 to the outraged …
Big Mac guilt: Behind the curtain
On his first visit to the Tate archive, the London-based writer Joe Dunthorne finds a Christmas card from Grayson Perry …
Cornwall inside out: Peter Lanyon
He was the only native-born Cornishman of the post-war St Ives group of artists, and his work reflected the local …
Globe trotter: The journey of an artwork
In the first of a new series, Tate Etc. explores the life and times of a work in the Tate …
Hello from ‘Sleepy’: Document: Mondrian in London
The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His …
Jolly containers for a perpetual present: Architecture
Recent urban regeneration projects, both in the UK and abroad, have often combined the building of shopping centres and apartments …
One giant artistic leap for mankind: Document: Thomas Harriot
One Giant Artistic Leap For Mankind: William R. Shea on Thomas Harriot in TATE ETC. magazine
Poem of the month: Reimagined Garden
A poem inspired by John Sargent's work Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.
Books Etc. The Surreal House reviewed
The Surreal House, by Jane Alison with essays by Mary Ann Caws, Brian Dillon and others. Published by Barbican …
A centre of intelligence: Mathaf: The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Simon Grant, editor of Tate Etc. visits the inauguration of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha
The deliberate accident in art: Blots
Ever since Leonardo da Vinci urged artists to search for inspiration in the dirt on walls or the streaked patterns …
Everything is illuminated: Document: Künstlergruppe Brücke
In 1905 four young Dresden art students, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Fritz Bleyl, set up the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Domes for doomsday: Etc. Essay
The enduring legacy of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes