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A graphic wake-up call: Etc. Essay: Inspired by Ernst
In 1933 the pioneering Surrealist Max Ernst created an extraordinary publication called Une semaine de bonté. Arguably the first …
Curiouser and curiouser: Alice in Wonderland I
When Charles Dodgson – more widely known as Lewis Carroll – made drawings in the early 1960s for his book …
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 city of dreams...and shoes: Etc. Essay: Chicano art
This autumn more than 60 cultural institutions throughout southern California will come together to tell the story of the Los …
Away with the fairies: Richard Dadd
The Victorian artist is best known for two things: murdering his father, and painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke while incarcerated …
AAAARGH!: John Martin I
John Martin is best known for his dramatic scenes of apocalyptic destruction and biblical catastrophe. During his life his work …
Something borrowed, something new: René Magritte I
Magritte’s particular style of Surrealism, to be explored in a new show at Tate Liverpool, has become a favourite, with …
The great collaborator: DalÃ
In 1976 Salvador Dalà made a film with José Montes Baquer called Impressions of Upper Mongolia, Hommage to Raymond Roussel …
Hélio and I: Hélio Oiticica in London
Hélio Oiticica’s The Body of Colour comes to É«¿Ø´«Ã½ in June. Brazilian arts flourished in the 1950s, originating with …
Lights, camera, ...metamorphosis: Salvador DalÃ
Salvador Dalà as filmmaker? A strange idea to those who think he was little more than a one-time collaborator with …
Living colour: Hélio Oiticica
Hélio Oiticica’s Brazilian arts flourished in the 1950s, originating with the Modernist movement of the 1920s, and Oiticica became a …
MicroTate 10
MicroTate 10; Nick Rosen, Peter Newman, Peter Peri and Tom Hodgkinson reflect on a work in the Tate collection
We are here: Photographing Britain
To coincide with Tate Britain’s photographic survey of Britain’s social history, Tate Etc. asked a selection of writers, curators and …
A family affair: Millais
Millais’s early career was closely linked to his friendship with the Lemprière family. The teenage artist’s desire for one of …
‘I loved the bugs, they were gross.’ Ruby, age 9: Turner Prize
On a yearly basis it provokes passionate debate on the state of contemporary British art, and it has inspired other …
‘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 …
It's all true: The World as a Stage II
Co-curators of the É«¿Ø´«Ã½ exhibition, ask some of the participating artists about its themes
Lumps, bumps, bulbs, bubbles, bulges, slits, turds, coils, craters, wrinkles and holes
Literary critic and feminist, Elaine Showalter explores the life and work of artist Louise Bourgeois.
Memory frames: Tate Archive
Iain Sinclair visits the Tate archive and unearths the images of a photographer ‘trembling on the brink of life and …
MicroTate 11
Microtate 11: Carsten Nicolai, Duncan Marquis, Piers Faccini and Andrew Graham-Stewart, Tate Etc.