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Looking through the Large Glass: Marcel Duchamp in England
Marcel Duchamp spent a few weeks of 1913 in Herne Bay in north Kent. Jeremy Millar gives an insight into …
A Journey that was: Aleksandra Mir on Pierre Huyghe
Artist Aleksandra Mir reflects on her experience of working with Pierre Huyghe
The final visitor: John Constable II
Steven Sherrill pens a fictional account of a studio visit to the English painter John Constable
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions": Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky’s ground-breaking theoretical publication Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1912), with its emphasis on colours as “vibrations of the …
The End of perspective?: Symmetry
When David Brewster invented the kaleidoscope in 1816 he created geometric imagery with light. The geometric art that followed played …
We all have dreaming minds, and we are all capable of being terrified: Gothic Nightmares
The gothic has remained one of the most universal genres, which has attracted writers, filmmakers, musicians and artists across the …
A ouija board quest to contact the spirit of Josef Albers
Designer Paul Elliman seeks satisfaction of his curiosity and the typefaces designed by Josef Albers while at the Bauhaus in …
My house, Bauhaus
Peter Fischli grew up in a Bauhaus home designed by his father Hans Fischli, an artist and architect who had …
When the future was now: Nam June Paik
The pioneering Korean-born artist and composer Nam June Paik (1932–2006), who famously declared that the ‘future is now’, is considered …
What am I looking at?: Gabriel Orozco III
A fellow artist celebrates several well-known works
Take courage: Behind the curtain
In her exploration of the Design Research Unit, one of the first British design consultants, Michelle Cotton unearths an unrealistic …
Romanticism gets real: British landscape photography
The Romanticism display in the Clore Galleries at Tate Britain features more than 170 paintings and prints, as well as …
Next-to-nothing
In 1935 Gertrude Stein wrote that in a painting there should be "no air...no feeling of air". As Steven Connor …
The restless storyteller: Juan Muñoz
He was said to be one of the ‘most ingenious artists of his generation’ and someone who had ‘an infectious …
The room stripped bare, even: Marcel Duchamp
In 1927 Marcel Duchamp married Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor. The wedding was filmed by Man Ray and attended by Picabia. Here, …
A Rye view: Edward Burra
He had six paintings in London’s International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936, but was never formally a surrealist. His work has …
Poem of the month: Butterfly Antennae
Poem of the Month, Butterfly Antennae by James Midgley, TATE ETC issue 21
A nuclear masquerade: Project for a Masquerade at Tate St Ives
On the eve of his exhibition at Tate St Ives, the former Turner Prize winner introduces a fascinating project that …
MicroTate 21
Contemporary reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Taking the most extreme liberties to fashion an alternative world: Peter Doig
A figure standing on the branches of a tree; a long-haired man in a canoe staring out at the river; …