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Lives of the Artists: Běla Kolářová
Běla Kolářová’s (1923–2010) experiments with photography and assemblage brought the everyday into direct contact with the aesthetic of a new …
Sitting for Hockney
Wayne Sleep and George Lawson recall the experience of sitting for David Hockney between 1972-5
Vanessa Bell, Abstract Painting c.1914: A poem by Jack Underwood
A poem by Jack Underwood in response to Vanessa Bell's 'Abstract Painting', c.1914
Artist Sketchbooks: Stanley Spencer
Adrian Glew leafs through one of Stanley Spencer’s sketchbooks in the Tate Archive
Barry Flanagan, sand girl 1970
Judith Wilkinson on the artist’s little-known Super 8mm film
Behind the Curtain: Gangsters of the New Freedom
Documents on the 1960s radical anti-art activist group King Mob spark the interest of one visitor to the Tate Archive
The Hidden Hand: Marco Pasi
Art is usually made by the ‘hand of the artist’, but for centuries artists, from William Blake and Georgiana Houghton …
How Embarrassing!
The Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) spent her life exploring what she called ‘body awareness painting’, much of which was …
Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
In the late 19th century the writer and photographer Peter Henry Emerson collaborated with the artist Thomas Frederick Goodall to …
MicroTate 37
Four new perspectives on works in the Tate collection
My Memories of an Indian Master
Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) was an acclaimed artist both in India and internationally. Active from the 1960s, he was part of …
My Teacher: James Dyson on Maurice de Sausmarez
In our ongoing series celebrating the value and lasting impact of teachers, James Dyson, inventor of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner …
Opinion: Stephen Heppell on the importance of arts education
The arts need to be an integral part of the traditional set of subjects taught at schools if we want …
Sickert and Photography
Rebecca Daniels on how Walter Sickert deftly combined art history and photography in his paintings
Alistair Hudson on art for social change: Opinion
It is time to rethink traditional orthodoxies of art, says Alistair Hudson, and embrace the idea that it should reflect …
In bed with Donald Judd
The first piece of furniture Donald Judd made was his bed on the fifth floor of the large cast-iron building …
Edward Krasiński's 'Spear' (1964)
‘Spears hung from the wires stretched between the trees created an illusion of movement. They were swishing [in the air]. …
Let's Do It Together
To coincide with the retrospective exhibition of influential American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) – whose six-decade career spanned painting, sculpture, …
Otto Dix and Paul Nash: Views from the First World War
Otto Dix and Paul Nash: Views from the First World War
Private View: J.M.W. Turner's skies
The Hebridean islands are known for their expansive skies that are unpredictable and impressive in equal measure – something that …