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Five Things to Know: Keith Haring
Explore the life and work of this artist and activist
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 …
Belief
How artists from ARTIST ROOMS have explored relationship between religion and art
The cruel snare of memory: Studio visit
Carol Rama, the Italian self-taught artist born in 1918, has only recently gained international recognition for her highly erotic, visceral …
The God-maker who did his job too well: Rubens and Britain
In 2008 Tate Members helped to buy Peter Paul Rubens’s important oil sketch created for the Banqueting House in Whitehall, …
Ambient landscape: A Picture of Britain
Martin Herbert looks at the use of English landscape, from J B Priestley to Andrew Cross's film series An English …
Frank Bowling: Awash with the Colour of Life
The Guyana-born British artist studied alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj in the early 1960s, before making a name for …
Clothing Coursework Guide
Explore art and fashion, from clothes and identity to shapes, patterns and textures of clothing inspired by art
Inside the home of collector David King
Discover how the world's largest Soviet art and design collection came to be
How to Paint a Flower like a Pre-Raphaelite
Follow Glory Samjolly's step-by-step guide to painting, including modern day tips and tricks
The great collaborator: DalÃ
In 1976 Salvador Dalà made a film with José Montes Baquer called Impressions of Upper Mongolia, Hommage to Raymond Roussel …
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 …
The art of protest: Can artists respond effectively to social and political upheaval?
The ºÚÁÏÉç display Citizens and States poses a range of possible ways that artists might react to or participate …
‘Ever was it thus for the muse’: By Lauren John Joseph
A society doyenne excitedly shares the news that she is to sit for the portraitist John Singer Sargent
‘Everything Was Getting Smashed’: Three Case Studies of Play and Participation, 1965–71
In this essay Hilary Floe considers instances of chaotic ‘over-participation’ in three art exhibitions that took place between 1965 and …
Production in View: Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism
Bill Roberts argues that Fish Story 1989–95 by the photographer and theorist Allan Sekula expresses a shift from a culture …
From Over- to Sub-Exposure: The Anamnesis of Les Immatériaux: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
Les Immatériaux, Jean-François Lyotard’s and Thierry Chaput’s 1985 groundbreaking exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, is discussed as …
Locating Cosmopolitanism within a Trans-Atlantic Interpretive Frame: Critical Evaluation of Sargent’s Portraits and Figure Studies in Britain and the United States c.1886–1926
This article examines how John Singer Sargent’s American nationality, his Anglo-American expatriate experience and his works’ cosmopolitanism coloured the views …
News and Event Coursework Guide
Look at artists responses to news, from headline-grabbing events and social or political issues, to stories of the extraordinary everyday
Muscular Modernism
Sarah Victoria Turner explores the circumstances of the making of the relief and the posthumous cast of Wrestlers by Henri …