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Kenneth Clark and the Death of Painting
Martin Hammer reviews Kenneth Clark’s public spat with Herbert Read about modern art, which erupted in successive issues of the …
Jamal al-Sati and the Lebanese Left
Chad Elias explores Jamal al-Sati and the Lebanese Left for Tate In Focus.
‘I’ll find a way to slip in a great big incongruity from time to time’: René Magritte
In 1947 Magritte gave up what he called his ‘tactile conformism’ partly to distance himself from the rigours of Parisian …
'Never take anything for what it appears to be': Ali Smith on Mona Hatoum
Writer Ali Smith grapples with the wordplay, multiple resonance and multiple meaning – ‘the feeling of not being able to …
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 …
Joan Jonas born 1936 Helen in Egypt: Lines in the Sand 2004
Case study on Joan Jonas's Helen in Egypt: Lines in the Sand 2004, part of Performance at Tate: Into the …
Larry Miller born 1944 and Tom Russotti born 1977 Flux-Olympiad 2008
Photo Essay by Acatia Finbow examining Tom Russotti and Larry Miller's Flux-Olympiad 2008
Edgar Calel: 'Not all things are for sale'
Meet the artist whose work pays homage to the local Indigenous communities within Guatemala
On the hoof and shooting from the hip: Another London
Between 1930 and 1980 photographers from across the globe came to capture the essence of London. To coincide with an …
Opinion: learning from our children
Headteacher Kevin Jones has witnessed how art can change the lives of the children he teaches. Here, he argues why …
Heroic Symbols Artist Books: Incubating Ideas
Tate In Focus research project exploring Heroic Symbols 1969 by Anselm Kiefer, authored by Christian Weikop
Hockney's World of Pictures
Martin Gayford recounts how, for more than 60 years, Hockney has been breaking boundaries
Biology and the Bauhaus: László Moholy-Nagy
Discover how art and science collided in the avant-garde community of London's Hampstead
Aliza Nisenbaum
Read more about the Tate Liverpool exhibition and the artist's sitters
Some Notes on Words and Things in Cy Twombly’s Sculptural Practice
This paper presents an extended close reading of Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python), 1954, …
‘An Action Painter Manqué’
Tate In Focus research project exploring Parts of the Face: French Vocabulary Lesson 1961 by Larry Rivers
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Answers Your Questions
Watch the artist answer questions from the public
Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium
This article considers Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings as artworks poised on the cusp of the ‘post-medium condition’ of installation art. …
Damien Hirst at ºÚÁÏÉç: The artist in conversation
Since he was a young teenager, Damien Hirst has enjoyed visiting Tate. From his early fascination with William Blake to …
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 …