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When play got serious: Etc. Essay: Art and the playground
Outdoor play should be fun, right? We have all enjoyed clambouring over a climbing frame. The urban playgrounds that we …
The artist in her studio: Caroline Achaintre at Tate Britain
How the Chinese avant-garde came to 1970s rural England: Li Yuan-chia at ºÚÁÏÉç
New acquisitions take a bow: Nam June Paik at ºÚÁÏÉç
Reality is ephemeral: Turner colour experiments
The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is well known for his large-scale installations and sculptures using ethereal materials such as light, …
Still winning back poetry for sculpture: Studio visit: Phillip King
He studied under Anthony Caro, was a studio assistant to Henry Moore, and has consistently experimented with materials including foam …
Television turns on itself: Gretchen Bender at Tate Liverpool
Veils of perfection: The EY Exhibition: Late Turner - Painting Set Free
The Swiss mountain known as the Rigi, overlooking Lake Lucerne and its surrounding valleys, was a subject to which Turner …
'Vile, disgusting, dull, filthy - the voices cry': Transmitting Andy Warhol
Today we take for granted the mass-media channels of publishing, film, fashion, music and broadcasting, but Andy Warhol was a …
Behind the scenes: painting conservation: #MuseumWeek
Have you ever wondered what happens in our conservation studio?
The dedicated amateur: Italian Modernist Photography
Alfredo Camisa (1927–2007) was a prominent figure in photography in Italy during the postwar years, though today his work is …
Dirty, messy… and McQueen: Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen: Working Process
He was known as Lee to his friends, but Alexander McQueen to the fashion world and the rest of us. …
Inner worlds and outer realities: Cathy Wilkes
Former Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes (b1966) has since the 1990s been making compelling installations and assemblages, often drawn from …
New brutalist image: Nigel Henderson's photographs at Tate Britain
Out of the light, into the shadows: Tate Etc. Essay: Photograms
The photogram is an image made without a camera by placing an object directly on to the surface of a …
Powerfully lonely
The author of a forthcoming alternative history of London finds echoes of writers past in a post-futurist landscape inspired by …
To show or not to show: Malene Dumas: The Image as Burden
Marlene Dumas (b1953) has been called ‘the world’s most interesting figure painter’. Her beautifully painted works, which can be seen …
'We will go right up to the sun': The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay
An important figure in the Parisian avant-garde, Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) brought extraordinary inventiveness to a range of works, which celebrated …
Whose utopia
Artist Cao Fei introduces her film Whose Utopia set in a Chinese factory as it goes on display at Tate …