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'Poor abraded butterflies of the stage': Sickert and the Brighton Pierrots
Sickert's interest in popular entertainment extended beyond the London music-hall and his 1915 painting Brighton Pierrots depicts a troupe of …
The Effects of Surface Cleaning on Acrylic Emulsion Paintings: A Preliminary Investigation
Drawing on a current research project at Tate on the conservation of modern paintings, this article, based on research carried …
Xiang Jing 向京
Xiang Jing (born 1968) works primarily with fibreglass sculpture to express her investigation of the ‘internality’ of human nature. Her …
Blurred Lines: Art, Activism, Popular Culture and Social change
This research paper highlights some of the core issues related to funding structures available for socially engaged practices in India, …
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 …
Kiefer and Beuys: Cathexis and Cartharsis
Tate In Focus research project exploring Heroic Symbols 1969 by Anselm Kiefer, authored by Christian Weikop
The Lives of Digital Things: A Community of Practice Dialogue
This report was compiled from four virtual conversations, the primary aim of which was to explore the different ways in …
‘The Whole Question of Plinths’ in Barbara Hepworth’s 1968 Tate Retrospective
In 1968 Barbara Hepworth was honoured with a significant retrospective at the Tate Gallery. This paper offers a close reading …
From the Surreal to the Decorative
He is best known for his paintings from both world wars, as well as his surreal English landscapes, but Paul …
The Flat-Footed Boogie-Woogie: Clement Greenberg and the Washington Color School
The prominence of the Washington Color School in the 1950s and 1960s has often been attributed to the influence of …
A celestial journey: Clouds
Richard Hamblyn looks at the use of sky to load meaning in painting since the Renaissance, including the work of …
Exhibition Guide: Impressionists in London
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Rethinking Geometric Abstraction
Nadia Radwan explores how mathematical and mystical principles inspired the geometrical abstract work of three artists
Cultivated minds: The art of the garden
Martin Postle talks to Christoph Becker about artists and the inspiration of their?gardens
Supporting learning and participation with archives
Reflecting on the role of outreach and reaching widened audiences
BP Spotlight: Bodies of Nature: Bodies of (Human) Nature: Nymphs in British Art 1780–1840
Bodies of (Human) Nature: Nymphs in British Art 1780–1840. Essay by Cora Gilroy-Ware for Tate's BT Spotlights display, examining the …
Unland: The Place of Testimony
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo (born 1958) addresses the themes of loss and bereavement in her sculpture Unland: audible in the …
‘More Impact than the Venice Biennale’: Demarco, Beuys and Strategy: Get Arts
In this essay Christian Weikop closely examines primary source correspondence and press material from the Richard Demarco Archive at the …
Han Yajuan 韩娅娟
As part of the post-1978 generation, Han Yajuan (born 1980) is concerned with China’s socio-cultural transformations and new materialistic trends. …