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The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain
Explore the Tate Britain exhibition room by room
Vincent van Gogh: The Pilgrim Painter
Van Gogh spent formative years between 1873 and 1876 living and working as an art dealer, and later a teacher, …
Five artworks to see with your family at Tate Britain
Read our pick of family-friendly art highlights at Tate Britain
Through Pasmore's eyes: Behind the curtain
In his first visit to the Tate archive, the writer Paul Bailey is surprised to find an early painted sketch …
Hepworth the internationalist: Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World
The work of Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) is often associated with the British locations that she knew best, both St Ives …
That Uncertain Object: David Sylvester’s Conception of Criticism as a Personal Affair
It has become almost routine to dismiss direct and ‘unmediated’ analyses of artworks but in this essay Brendan Prendeville argues …
‘A Wistful Dream of Far-Off Californian Glamour’: David Sylvester and the British View of American Art
David Sylvester’s criticism from the 1950s and 1960s combined enthusiasm for the vitality of new American art with ambivalence about …
Archives & Access project: Adrian Glew outlines the selection criteria: Transforming Tate Britain, Archives & Access
With over one million items in Tate Archive to choose from, find out how archivist Adrian Glew and his colleagues …
Walter Sickert
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Masks Coursework Guide
Explore how artists have used masks in their work, to protect, disguise, hide and amuse
Capturing the Moment
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Moving with the times: Eadweard Muybridge I
The pioneering nineteenth-century Anglo-American photographer is best known for his images of animal and human subjects in motion, but was …
Seven Things to Know about Vincent van Gogh’s Time in Britain
Britain was instrumental in shaping the van Gogh we know today
Human Figure Coursework Guide
Explore people drawn, painted or sculpted from life and art that explores abstract ideas about being human
Double Take: By Dan Fox
In his computer-generated videos and animations, Ed Atkins’s high-resolution avatars weep, smoke and play piano. But how is it that …
Archives & Access project: the Archive Gallery – from digital to life and back again: Transforming Tate Britain
A blog post on the Archive Gallery at Tate Britain as part of the Archives & Access project
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. …
Surrealism, but Not as You Know It
While many stories of surrealism have focused on Paris in the 1920s, the revolutionary movement inspired and united artists around …
Ford and Empire
Jason Edwards explores the imperial implications of Ford’s neo-Egyptian figures in the context of British involvement in Africa in the …
Figure it out: Tate Liverpool Rehang
Jonathan Harris interprets Tate Liverpool’s comprehensive rehang, and how it shows many of the works in the collection in a …