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Judgement days: Gerhard Richter II
A former student remembers his ‘friendly, but merciless’ teacher
Kings of the vast: John Martin II
In the early nineteenth century a fashion for enormous paintings flourished, and artists including Martin, Benjamin Haydon and Francis Danby …
Meditations on time: The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean
Over the years Dean’s poetic, meditative 16 mm films have ranged from portrait studies of Merce Cunningham and Mario Merz …
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Reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Poem of the month: Laura Scott: Norham Castle, Sunrise
Every month, Tate Etc. publishes new poetry inspired by a work in the Tate. This June, Laura Scott was inspired …
'A spit in the eye...': Behind the curtain
On his first visit to the Tate archive, Austin Collings unearths a newspaper cutting on Ian Breakwell’s evocative photographic diary …
Vaporous fantasies: Document: Robert Rauschenberg's photograms
Before he became famous for his protean work, Robert Rauschenberg was making little-known but beautiful cameraless photograms with his then …
Beyond the easel: Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals and Indica at Tate Britain II
To coincide with the display, Tate Etc. talked to the Venezuelan-born artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (born 1923) about his early exhibition …
Guernica... In a car showroom?
±Ê¾±³¦²¹²õ²õ´Ç’s Guernica went on display in a Manchester car showroom in early 1939, in support of the Spanish Republican cause. …
The invisible man: Behind the curtain
Royalist, revolutionary, pacifist, arms dealer, Communist, right-wing extremist, con man and traitor. Who was Gerald Hamilton (c.1888–1970)? He claimed among …
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Four reflections on artworks in the Tate Collection
More to meet the eye: Contemporary drawings at Tate
Until the 1960s it was seen as a secondary act in the process of art making. Now a new generation …
'One of the most important days in my life': Alighiero Boetti at ºÚÁÏÉç
A long-term friend remembers his first encounter with the artist at the age of eighteen, and the subsequent effect this …
Optical allusion: Private view
How incredulity and irritation turned to fascination when an artist encountered Christopher Williams’s image of a cutaway section of a …
You saw it here first
Find out which four trail-blazing galleries introduced Britain to the international avant-garde
Between the rocks and a hard place: Llyn Foulkes: Private view
Since the early 1960s the American artist and musician has created surreal and often politically satirical images, whose influences range …
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
More than skin deep: Tate Acquisition II
Tate Etc. introduces a recent purchase now on show at ºÚÁÏÉç: Santu Mofokeng’s The Black Photo Album | Look …
Speaking volumes: Document: Avital Geva's The Books in Landscape Experiment
In 1971 the Israeli artist Avital Geva took a lorry filled with second-hand books and dumped them in baskets on …
Five hundred years of British art: Tate Britain rehang I
Spread over twenty rooms, Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis’s vision for the extensive rehang hinges around a chronological display from …