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Conversations with paintings: The Indiscipline of Painting
This autumn Tate St Ives stages a wide-ranging exhibition focusing on post-war abstract painting by artists from across the world. …
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, …
In the heat of the moment: Private View
‘I cannot work it out. I cannot resolve it. It is always different.’ An abstract sculpture of interlocking forged iron …
Judgement days: Gerhard Richter II
A former student remembers his ‘friendly, but merciless’ teacher
Poem of the month: Laura Scott: Norham Castle, Sunrise
Every month, Tate Etc. publishes new poetry inspired by a work in the Tate. This June, Laura Scott was inspired …
The poet of life and sculpture: Barry Flanagan I
He may be best known for his bronze hare sculptures, but Flanagan’s early work using a variety of media such …
When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean: Alice in Wonderland II
Lewis Carroll demonstrated how inventive one could be with words and their meanings. Since the 1960s artists such as Mel …
Between terror and ecstasy: Artistic hallucination
Stories of hallucinations in art and literature date back to the Bible, but the idea of the artistic hallucination is …
Beyond the easel: Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals and Indica at Tate Britain II
To coincide with the display, Tate Etc. talked to the Venezuelan-born artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (born 1923) about his early exhibition …
Large legacy of the little Spaniard: Picasso and Modern British Art at Tate Britain I
It is well known that Pablo Picasso initiated many important developments of twentieth-century art, but we know less about his …
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Four reflections on artworks in the Tate Collection
More to meet the eye: Contemporary drawings at Tate
Until the 1960s it was seen as a secondary act in the process of art making. Now a new generation …
Welcome to his situation...: Tino Sehgal's Turbine Hall commission
The work of the British-born German artist Tino Sehgal exists solely as a set of choreographed gestures and spoken instructions …
Colossus of the camera: Francis Frith: Photographs at Tate Britain
The spectacular images created by an Englishman that first revealed the sights along the Nile for those back home
The first abstract artist? (And it's not Kandinsky): Focus: Hilma Af Klint
Wassily Kandinsky is generally regarded as the pioneer of abstract art. However, a Swedish woman called Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) …
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Caterina Albano, Hong Ling, Rosa Barba and Henry Holland reflect on works in the Tate collection, including a recent purchase …
Modernists don't die in Ambleside: Schwitters in Britain at Tate Britain
Was this the same Kurt Schwitters, founder of Merz, collaborator with Dadaists, Cubists and Constructivists, who won first, second and …
‘One’s creative imagination was set free’
Fellow artist Allen Jones pays his respects to the late great American Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein
Pop goes the past: Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at ºÚÁÏÉç I
Roy Lichtenstein was widely regarded as one of the key figures of American Pop Art. A pioneer of a new …
Speaking volumes: Document: Avital Geva's The Books in Landscape Experiment
In 1971 the Israeli artist Avital Geva took a lorry filled with second-hand books and dumped them in baskets on …