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The early adventures: Gabriel Orozco I
Since it was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1993, Gabriel Orozco’s Empty Shoe Box has become one of most …
The deliberate accident in art: Blots
Ever since Leonardo da Vinci urged artists to search for inspiration in the dirt on walls or the streaked patterns …
A connoisseur of uncertainty: Susan Hiller
Susan Hiller: In her mixed-media installations and video works, Susan Hiller’s art journeys through the intangible landscapes of imagination, dreams …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Cornwall inside out: Peter Lanyon
He was the only native-born Cornishman of the post-war St Ives group of artists, and his work reflected the local …
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 …
The artist as activist: Ai Weiwei
The Chinese artist has become one of the most important cultural commentators of his generation. On the eve of the …
The art of writing with people: Art and dance
The practice of choreographed movement has never been merely about decorative spectacle, but as artists and performers have shown throughout …
‘And now what, if my sacrifice was in vain?’: Paul Gaugin I
Before his self-imposed exhile in Tahiti, the pioneer of modernism spent his formative years in Brittany, northern France. Here, he …