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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 …
Thy hand, by Nature guided, marks the line – That stamps perfection on the form divine: Joshua Reynolds
Forget today’s celebrity icons. Paula Byrne looks at the first ever media frenzy for young actress and lover of the …
From the head to the heart: Behind the curtain
In his fourth visit to the Tate archive, Paul Farley finds some resonant human remains
A fearless embrace of our common existential situation as frail, short-sighted creatures lost in space in a temporarily lucky planet: Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s vast earthwork Spiral Jetty 1970 became an instant icon of land art, partly thanks to iconic photography by …
Cured by colour
Christopher Turner explores how the study of colour by artists, writers and scientists has influenced our sense of the world.
Bound to fail: Open Systems I
The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object, with the emphasis shifting away from the static artwork …
Border crossing: Open Systems II
The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object through ‘Open Systems.’ Anna Dezeuze explores aspects of this …
Beyond the threshold: Jeff Wall
Sheena Wagstaff travels to downtown Vancouver and discovers how the urban environment has found its way into the work of …
Art, culture and camouflage
In 1896 the American artist Abbott H. Thayer published an article on how animals protected themselves with the use of …
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 …
MicroTate 39
Four new responses to works in the Tate collection
Lives of the Artists: Nigel Henderson
Louis Henderson on how the work of his great uncle, Nigel Henderson (1917–1985), still haunts the present
The human body: always changing, always the same
Artworks on view at this year’s TEFAF art fair in Maastricht showed how great artists from across the centuries have …
First Encounters with Rauschenberg: Richard Wentworth
Richard Wentworth relives teenage memories from the early 1960s when he visited an extraordinary exhibition by Robert Rauschenberg in London’s …
First Encounters with Rauschenberg: Mark Bradford
The Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford, who represents his country at the 2017 Venice Biennale and is known as much …
Are We All Anxious Now?
The all-consuming world of social media has pushed many of us to new levels of anxiety. Add to that the …
From the Surreal to the Decorative
He is best known for his paintings from both world wars, as well as his surreal English landscapes, but Paul …
My Teacher: Phyllida Barlow on George Fullard
Phyllida Barlow, who represents Great Britain at the 2017 Venice Biennale, remembers her influential teacher, the sculptor George Fullard
Edward Krasiński's 'Spear' (1964)
‘Spears hung from the wires stretched between the trees created an illusion of movement. They were swishing [in the air]. …
Sickert and Photography
Rebecca Daniels on how Walter Sickert deftly combined art history and photography in his paintings