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Extraordinary scenes of beautifully arranged horrible wilderness: British Orientalist Painting
As Tate Britain mounts an exhibition of work by nineteenth-century Western artists who travelled east, Briony Llewellyn delves into the …
MicroTate 13
Microtate, Tate Etc issue 13; Pae White, Peter Schjeldahl, Vincent Katz and Mary Richards
In the mood of the Old Masters: Balthus
The recent Simon Sainsbury bequest that consists of a gift of five paintings to the National Gallery and thirteen to …
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 …
Nine to five: John Baldessari
The American artist John Baldessari has influenced several generations of younger artists, and has, since the 1960s, consistently renegotiated his …
On the road to a state of grace: Boetti, Polke, Clemente and Taaffe
As Adams writes: "This is a tale of four contemporary art shamans, in a pre-9/11 world that could still entertain …
'For want of a new territory to conquer, the fictional energies of art have penetrated into the factual and material basis of photography': Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography
To coincide with ’s survey exhibition that explores the parallel worlds of photographs taken in the urban environment and …
Immerse yourself: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Since the early 1990s Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has created installations and interactive environments in which she evokes an atmospheric, yet often …
'It Is not a lasso, an arabesque, nor a piece of spaghetti': Lucio Fontana
Fontana saw his work as a classic representation of what he called “a spatial environment” and described it as “a …
Landscapes of the mind: Mark Rothko II
Simon Grant talks to Brice Marden about his enduring fascination with Rothko’s paintings.
Material language: Cildo Meireles I
The Brazilian artist is regarded as one of the leading figures in the development of conceptual art. In works that …
MicroTate 14
Heimo Zobernig, Tim Lee, David Shrigley and Kay Rosen on Tate Collection works Tate Etc. issue 14
My dearest Clive...: Behind the curtain
Inspired by her mother’s love letters to her father, Tishani Doshi reads the moving correspondence in the Tate archive between …
The transcendence of the image: Leonora Carrington
A visit to the Tate not only prompts a journey to track down the Surrealist painter Leonora Carringotn at her …
The whispering Zeitgeist: Caspar David Friedrich
The image of a monk standing by an empty sea soon became an icon of German Romanticism. However, in the …
A careful concoction of 'push' and 'pull': Glenn Brown
On the eve of Glenn Brown's solo exhibition at Tate Liverpool, Rochelle Steiner and Alison Gingeras talk about the enduring …
Interview: William Kentridge at Teatro La Fenice
William Kentridge was invited to make a projection on the fire screen of the Fenice opera theatre, which was primarily …
More than the art world can tolerate: Otto Muehl's Manopsychotic Ballet
Why was Otto Meuhl's 1970 performance Manopsychotic Ballet forgotten?
Poem of the month: Isaac Babel Riding with Budyonny
Each month, Tate Etc. publishes new poetry by leading poets such as John Burnside, Moniza Alvi, Adam Thorpe, Alice Oswald …
Sifting defunct modernism in search of something useful: New Modernism
‘New Modernism is rampant,’ argues Martin Herbert