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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 …
‘The Process of Drawing is like Writing a Diary: It's a Nice Way of Thinking About Time Passing’: Rachel Whiteread
To coincide with Tate Britain’s exhibition of the artist’s drawings, as well as the objects from her personal collection that …
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 …
‘Be an outlaw... Be a hero’: Hélio Oiticica III
Artists and curators celebrate the influence of the Brazilian artist on their work
Dancing the white darkness: Maya Deren
Maya Deren (1917–1961) is regarded as one of the first important American experimental filmmakers. To coincide with a series of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Where there's life, there's...: George Frederic Watts's 'Hope'
Paul Barlow looks at George Frederic Watts’s Hope
What are you looking at?: The female gaze
What are you looking at? Gilda Williams casts an eye over the photographic works of four female artists: Vanessa Beecroft, …
Tropical fusion: Beatriz Milhazes
In the Studio: Adriano Pedrosa visits Beatriz Milhazes
The Sun is God: J.M.W. Turner
New York-based video artist Paul Pfeiffer explains how J.M.W. Turner’s painting Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after …
Six reflections on the photography of Robert Frank
Robert Frank is one of the world’s most influential photographers. For more than fifty years, he has broken the rules …