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Barbara Hepworth's Pelagos: MicroTate 21
In celebration of the launch of Art Everywhere, we revisit Simon Wallis's essay on his relationship with Hepworth's Pelagos 1946, …
The Story of Paula Rego's 'The Dance'
Discover the story behind the painting
Wish you were here: Behind the curtain
On a visit to the Tate Archive, Susie Gauntlett discovers a postcard written by a young Lucian Freud.
David Attenborough on Alexander Marshal (1620 -1682)
Over the coming weeks a number of guest contributors will be sharing their favourite watercolours on the Tate blog. This …
You can hear the welding. And you can hear the blows of the hammer: David Smith
Richard Wentworth saw David Smith’s Wagon II in Smith’s outdoor studio in New York in the 1970s. Here he takes …
Francis Bacon: Back to Degas: Rothenstein Lecture 2011
Providing the first focused account of Francis Bacon’s artistic dialogue with Edgar Degas, Martin Hammer argues that the French painter …
Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation
Recent research indicates that the taught curriculum in art and design secondary school education pays scant attention to meaning-making in …
Abstraction sans frontières: International Exchanges: Modern Art and St Ives 1915-65
The show at Tate St Ives this summer explores the international context which shaped the work of artists in the …
Q&A: Vivian Suter: Wild at Art
To coincide with her first solo exhibition in the UK at Tate Liverpool, Tate Etc. talks to the Swiss-Argentine artist …
Kurt Schwitters's portraits
While interned in a camp during the Second World War, Schwitters made hundreds of portraits to earn a living
How John Singer Sargent painted Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Go behind-the-scenes in our conservation studio to discover the artist's technique
David Austen on Alberto Giacometti
Writer David Austen reflects on Alberto Giacometti’s work Hour of the Traces
Experiments in Practice: Museums, Art Institutions and Social Change in the 21st Century
Considering how institutional experimentation can attend to the pressing issues of today
Tania Bruguera: Tatlin’s Whisper #6
ºÚÁÏÉç staged a special presentation of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s performance piece Tatlin’s Whisper #6
Amar Kanwar: 'We make sense of life in bits and pieces'
The artist confronts social violence by exposing the use of sexual brutality to exert power in times of political conflict
Hattie Spires
Revisiting Rhapsodies in Black: British Art and the Harlem Renaissance, 1919–1939