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Why Save Art for the Nation?
11 Nov 2003
Why Save Art for the Nation?: Press related to lecture given at the Art Fund Conference by Nicholas Serota.
Various authors, Modern Art in the United States , 1956
Tate hoped to host an exhibition of contemporary art from the United States soon after its first major show of …
Bruce Nauman: Restless Invention
Since the late 1960s, the American artist has continually tested what an artwork can be, experimenting with sound, film, video, …
Curving Round: David Sylvester and the ‘Rediscovery’ of David Bomberg
Lee Hallman considers how David Sylvester’s role in the rehabilitation of David Bomberg’s reputation in the 1950s and 1960s illuminates …
Black moods
Gabriel Ramin Schor surveys the dark passages of black’s meaning and how artists have used it in their work.
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 …
‘Behold the Buffoon’: Dada, Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and the Sublime
Parodic humour was integral to Dada, and the influence of Nietzsche on dada is well known. However, the connections between …
American Art under John Rothenstein, 1938–64
As Director of the Tate Gallery, John Rothenstein showed a commitment to transatlantic relations and a distinctly national view of …
The Craze for Pastel: Essay
Ruth Kenny's essay on The Craze for Pastel in conjunction with a 2014 BP Spotlight display at Tate Britain on …
Movement Is Everything
Ahead of his major commission at Tate Britain, artist Hew Locke speaks to curator Elena Crippa about migration and movement, …
Tate Library and Archive Access Policy 2023-2028
This policy explains how Tate provides public access to its collections in line with best practice and relevant legislation
Artist Biography: Phyllida Barlow
Biography documenting the life of Phyllida Barlow from her birth and early education to her commission at Tate Britain in …
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 …
A reputation restored: The rediscovery of sculptor Ronald Moody
Self-taught wood-carver Ronald Moody, a former dentist born in Jamaica, is revealed as one of Britain's most remarkable Modernist sculptors …
Turn left for the revolution: Art Turning Left at Tate Liverpool
When Jacques-Louis David allowed his famous painting The Death of Marat 1793–4 to be used in support of the Republican …
As Seen: Modern British Painting and Visual Experience
During the twentieth century several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including …
‘When he paints a portrait I read a life’
Walter Sickert’s radical paintings pushed British art into the 20th century, transforming the representation of everyday life. Here, before the …
Lucian Freud: Real Lives
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Liverpool and listen to the Lucian Freud audio guide
The 1957 Rehang of °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s Modern British Gallery: Displaying the Contemporary ‘British School’ in the Context of John Rothenstein’s Later Career
When °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s modern British galleries reopened, refurbished and rehung, in 1957, the gallery’s Director John Rothenstein was entering the twilight …