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Museum Studies as Critical Praxis: Developing an Active Approach to Teaching, Research and Practice
This article argues that museum studies as an academic discipline needs to take a more active approach to effecting change …
Placing Bookmarks: The Institutionalisation and De-Institutionalisation of Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art
The recent interest in avant-garde art from Hungary shown by international museums such as Tate has been paralleled by transformations …
Understanding David Hockney's A Bigger Splash
Explore Hockney's inspiration, techniques and have a go at some splash-inspired activities
Reasoned Exhibitions: Blake in 1809 and Reynolds in 1813
This paper considers Blake’s 1809 exhibition in the light of the nascent practice of retrospective exhibitions and compares it with …
Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist artist Renato Guttuso found in Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica a language with which to confront the violence …
The Painting
Tate In Focus research project exploring Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858 ?1858–60 by William Dyce
Warhol stumbled across 'The Real America' in the pantry of a woman who never adapted to the American way of life: Gilda Williams on Andy Warhol's Mother
Gilda Williams looks at the most influential person in Andy Warhol's life – his mother Julia Warhola.
All the World’s a Stage
Since emerging as a key figure of the British Black arts movement in the 1980s, artist and cultural activist Lubaina …
Van Dyck and France under the Ancien Régime 1641–1793
Examining Anthony Van Dyck’s reputation in France from his death in 1641 to the opening of the Musée du Louvre …
Guided Freedom: Aesthetics, Tutelage, and the Interpretation of Art
This paper examines the operations of post-Kantian aesthetic discourses as parts of cultural technologies that induct individuals into particular kinds …
Bernard Perlin: Europe’s American
Tate In Focus research project exploring Orthodox Boys 1948 by Bernard Perlin
Ruins and Non-u-ments
Tate Research In Focus study on Walls Paper 1972 by Gordon Matta-Clark
Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors
Find out more about our exhibition at St Ives
A Lively Parrot: Frances Hodgkins's Wings Over Water
It is most likely that Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) began the painting Wings over Water in Bodinnick, Cornwall, in 1931 and …
Biopolitical Effigies: The Volatile Life-Cast in the Work of Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson
In the late 1960s and early 1970s American artists Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson independently created wax effigies and …
To the Ends of the Earth: Art and Environment: Art & Environment
Introducing the group of articles devoted to the theme of ‘Art & Environment’ in?Tate Papers?no.17,?this essay reflects …
He Chengyao 何成瑶
Through a combination of performance, video and photography, He Chengyao (born 1964) explores gender, mental illness and the body as …
Lucian Freud: Real Lives
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Liverpool and listen to the Lucian Freud audio guide
The restless storyteller: Juan Mu?oz
He was said to be one of the ‘most ingenious artists of his generation’ and someone who had ‘an infectious …
Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Critique of International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art
Reviewing international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art, Paul Gladston argues for the necessity of new …