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'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 …
Alistair Hudson on art for social change: Opinion
It is time to rethink traditional orthodoxies of art, says Alistair Hudson, and embrace the idea that it should reflect …
Laurie Wilson on Louise Nevelson
Author of 'Louise Nevelson: Art is Life' shares an insight into the artist's unique path to success
Let's Do It Together
To coincide with the retrospective exhibition of influential American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) – whose six-decade career spanned painting, sculpture, …
Otto Dix and Paul Nash: Views from the First World War
Otto Dix and Paul Nash: Views from the First World War
Private View: J.M.W. Turner's skies
The Hebridean islands are known for their expansive skies that are unpredictable and impressive in equal measure – something that …
Wifredo Lam: the Albissola years
The Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), whose retrospective at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ opens in September, spent the last decades of his …
Hockney's World of Pictures
Martin Gayford recounts how, for more than 60 years, Hockney has been breaking boundaries
Private View: Sam Riviere on Eduardo Paolozzi
Sam Riviere remembers Eduardo Paolozzi’s mosaics at Tottenham Court Road station, a gateway to both the city and the ‘chaotic …
Q&A with Cosey Fanni Tutti: Cosey Fanni Tutti talks frankly to Tate Etc. about art, sex and music
From her beginnings as an artist living in Hull in the late 1960s, Cosey Fanni Tutti has challenged the boundaries …
Who's That Girl?
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is finally reunited with the girl who appears in her captivating photograph Girl on a Spacehopper (Byker) taken …
Ambient landscape: A Picture of Britain
Martin Herbert looks at the use of English landscape, from J B Priestley to Andrew Cross's film series An English …
Art, culture and camouflage
In 1896 the American artist Abbott H. Thayer published an article on how animals protected themselves with the use of …
Frida on my mind
Frida Kahlo: feature article by Tracey Emin in Tate Etc. magazine, issue 4
The material world: Richard Deacon
Sculpture was historically the domain of the artist-worker, armed with hammer and chisel. Now the artist may use any material …
MicroTate 4
Richard Holloway, Edward Allington, David Austen and Ben Faccini reflect on a work in the Tate collection
Mind fields: The changing landscape of Britain
Tate Etc. introduces eleven personal responses to artworks that reflect the changing face of a nation.
Tune in, turn on, light up: The summer of love
During the 1960s, the light show became an important part of both the club and rock concert experience – no …
Use your illusions: The Summer of Love II
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at Tate Liverpool explores the psychedelic in the 1960s. Neil Mullholland explores …
A drink among friends: Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec II
The British-born fin-de-siècle bohemian Charles Conder arrived in Paris in 1890, where he soon discovered a fondness for Absinthe. The …