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Colour me British: Watercolour I
Tate Britain is staging a grand survey of watercolour painting in Great Britain, from the early thirteenth century through to …
A centre of intelligence: Mathaf: The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Simon Grant, editor of Tate Etc. visits the inauguration of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha
Burn, canvas, burn: Joan Miró
While the work of Joan Miró (1893–1983) may be well known across the world, a forthcoming exhibition at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ …
The sharks begin eating the fish
Peter Campus talks to Tate Etc. about his recent work
The transcendence of the image: Leonora Carrington
A visit to the Tate not only prompts a journey to track down the Surrealist painter Leonora Carringotn at her …
Books Etc. The Surreal House reviewed
The Surreal House, by Jane Alison with essays by Mary Ann Caws, Brian Dillon and others. Published by Barbican …
Staring into the contemporary abyss: The contemporary sublime
In the early eighteenth century Joseph Addison described the notion of the sublime as something that ‘fills the mind with …
Poem of the month: Reimagined Garden
A poem inspired by John Sargent's work Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.
One giant artistic leap for mankind: Document: Thomas Harriot
One Giant Artistic Leap For Mankind: William R. Shea on Thomas Harriot in TATE ETC. magazine
Moving with the times: Eadweard Muybridge I
The pioneering nineteenth-century Anglo-American photographer is best known for his images of animal and human subjects in motion, but was …
The whispering Zeitgeist: Caspar David Friedrich
The image of a monk standing by an empty sea soon became an icon of German Romanticism. However, in the …
The men-women of the Pacific: Paul Gauguin II
During the research for his novel The Way to Paradise, which interweaves the life of Gauguin with that of …
A careful concoction of 'push' and 'pull': Glenn Brown
On the eve of Glenn Brown's solo exhibition at Tate Liverpool, Rochelle Steiner and Alison Gingeras talk about the enduring …
Jolly containers for a perpetual present: Architecture
Recent urban regeneration projects, both in the UK and abroad, have often combined the building of shopping centres and apartments …
Diagrams of thought: Roni Horn
The artist has said: 'If you were to ask me what I do, I would say that I draw – …
Hello from ‘Sleepy’: Document: Mondrian in London
The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His …
Globe trotter: The journey of an artwork
In the first of a new series, Tate Etc. explores the life and times of a work in the Tate …
Fast forward: Eadweard Muybridge II
Fast Forward:Michael Wilson on Eadweard Muybridge in TATE ETC. magazine
To each his own paradise: Paul Gauguin III
To coincide with the Paul Gauguin exhibition, Lisa Liebmann and her husband pen a very personal interpretation of what the …
Big Mac guilt: Behind the curtain
On his first visit to the Tate archive, the London-based writer Joe Dunthorne finds a Christmas card from Grayson Perry …