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Alberto Giacometti: Breathing Life into Bronze
Giacometti was an artist both rooted in the exact and transported by the visionary. He was a maker and a …
Wild Geese Over the Mountains: Melodrama and the Sublime in the English Imaginary 1933–9: The Sublime Object
The paper traces the frequency with which familiar tropes of the sublime are used in the writing and painting of …
Don McCullin
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Workshops and conferences
Read information about the workshops hosted by the Refiguring American Art project and abstracts from the major international conference held …
‘Layers of Looking’: Changing Surfaces in the Paintings of Gary Hume
This article explores issues of change in the high gloss surfaces of four of Gary Hume’s paintings: Incubus 1991, Water …
Ethel Walker, Advocacy and Recognition in the Early Twentieth Century
Recent exhibitions have highlighted Ethel Walker’s significant role in early twentieth-century British art. This article examines Walker’s self-advocacy, the support …
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 …
Hatchings: Technique as Motif
Tate Research In Focus project on Dancers on a Plane 1980–1 by Jasper Johns
Joshua Woolford Artist Residency: New Dialogues with Sound
Listen to sound pieces created in response to artworks featured in the Tate collection
Home Sweet Home: Janice Kerbel talks to Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh’s monumental fabric architectures, life-sized works on paper and complex drawings made with multicoloured thread powerfully explore …
Between America and the Borders: William Johnstone’s Landscape Painting
Scottish artist William Johnstone lived and worked in America for periods in the 1920s and 1940s, encountering a very different …
Aubrey Beardsley: The Wunderkind of Decadence
In his mercilessly short life Aubrey Beardsley became a leading figure in the Symbolist movement with his extraordinary ink drawings …
Walks of Art: Bonnie Greer on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
The writer and critic explores the friendships, work and designs behind this radical set of artists
The Dimensions of Performance
Jonah Westerman examines the history of the term ‘performance’ since the mid-twentieth century and considers how the category has come …
Alan Davie: Entrance to a Paradise
Essay on the painter Alan Davie accompanying his BP Spotlight display at Tate Britain during 2014
An American in Paris
Tate In Focus research project exploring Parts of the Face: French Vocabulary Lesson 1961 by Larry Rivers
Judd through Oldenburg
In his critical writing on Claes Oldenburg during the 1960s Donald Judd explained how emotional content might be conveyed through …
Mapping the Field: Lawrence Alloway’s Art Criticism-as-Information
Lawrence Alloway claimed that the art critic should avoid explicit value judgements and instead provide information. This paper historicises Alloway’s …
Performing Pop: Marta MinujÃn and the ‘Argentine Image-Makers’
The June 1966 issue of Arts Magazine heralded the Argentine artist Marta MinujÃn’s arrival on the international art scene as …