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Lucian Freud: Real Lives
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Liverpool and listen to the Lucian Freud audio guide
The 1957 Rehang of °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s Modern British Gallery: Displaying the Contemporary ‘British School’ in the Context of John Rothenstein’s Later Career
When °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s modern British galleries reopened, refurbished and rehung, in 1957, the gallery’s Director John Rothenstein was entering the twilight …
The seeds of destruction: Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm at Tate Britain
Smashed stained glass windows, defaced religious statues, ashed portraits slashed with knives, sculptures blown up, watercolours defaced, art objects doused …
Monumentality: The Statue of Liberty as Subject
Tate Research In Focus project on Static 2009 by Steve McQueen
Aubrey Beardsley
Watch the curator's tour and explore the exhibition room by room
Tate Online Strategy 2010–12
This strategy describes Tate's web strategy for 2010-12.
Lingering at the threshold between word and image: Cy Twombly
Coinciding with Cy Twombly’s 80th birthday, ºÚÁÏÉç is staging the first retrospective of the American artist’s work for twenty …
The emblem of earthly vanities: Shadows
In folk tales, Gothic novels and film noir, shadows are premonitions, harbingers of threat and death. Western painting and its …
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 …
Art and Poetry
Tate In Focus research project exploring Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858 ?1858–60 by William Dyce
Politically Engaged Artistic Practice: Strategies and Tactics
This paper explores political forms of artistic practice operating within Tate Exchange broadly and within the authors’ creative practice specifically. …
‘Men thinking, and women tranquil’: John Gibson’s Portraiture Practice
The sculptor John Gibson was a vocal critic of the genre of portraiture, and pitched his reputation around his classical …
Frank Bowling: Material Explorations
This paper establishes a technical art history of the paintings of Frank Bowling and chronicles materials and techniques used by …
The T-Zone
Tate Research In Focus project study on Silo 1963–4 by James Rosenquist
Philip Guston
Find out more about our exhibition at ºÚÁÏÉç and view creative responses to the exhibition
Neuro ways of seeing: Neuroarthistory
In his new book Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki, John Onians argues that advances in the …
Barbara Hepworth and Gimpel Fils: The Rise and Fall of an Artist-Dealer Relationship
Records held in the Gimpel Fils Gallery Archive in London shed new light on Barbara Hepworth’s relationship with her dealers, …