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Look here upon this picture: Shakespeare in art
Ophelia and the Pre-Raphaelites are back at Tate Britain! To celebrate, Andrew Dickson looks at Millais and four other artists …
Hockney's World of Pictures
Martin Gayford recounts how, for more than 60 years, Hockney has been breaking boundaries
Military Avoidance: Marcel Duchamp and the 'Jura-Paris Road'
The essay traces military relationships in the work of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), paying particular attention to his notes of 1912 …
Dealing joyously with gross material facts: The Camden Town Group
Modern Painters: Sickert's famous dictum heralded a move towards a gritty realism in British painting
William Blake's cast of characters
Blake believed in the power of the imagination. Meet the various characters in his personal mythology and their meaning in …
When history collapses Into the present: Dexter Dalwood
When history collapses Into the present; David Anfam on Dexter Dalwood, Tate Etc. issue 18 Spring 2010
Archives & Access Project: Cracked looking-glass of a servant: Ireland and ‘quite Irish’ art in Tate Archive
Tate Britain is the National Gallery of British Art, with a remit to collect British works of art from around …
The detritus of the future and pleasure of the past: Ruin Lust at Tate Britain
The exhibition Ruin Lust at Tate Britain explores artists’ and subsequently photographers’ fascination with the ruin, via works from JMW …
Myths and Legends Coursework Guide
Be inspired by myths and legends – or create your own!
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …