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Peace and the politics of freedom: Picasso and Politics
He was a member of the Communist Party and a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace in the post-war …
Occupational therapy: British Comic Art II
Harry Hill on his paintings, Tate Etc issue 19, Summer 2010
The multiplication of being, or a reflective abyss?: Mirrors
Lyle Rexer on Mirrors on contemporary and modern art, Tate Etc issue 19, summer 2010
MicroTate 19
Individual reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Interview: Gerard Byrne
To coincide with the exhibition of Gerard Byrne’s new film work A Thing Is A Hole In A Thing …
Family pleasures: Behind the curtain
Henrietta Garnett, a regular visitor to the Tate archive, recognises two painted calendars done by her grandmother Vanessa Bell.
This was the modern world – part one: Richard Hamilton at É«¿Ø´«Ã½
To coincide with the retrospective at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ of Richard Hamilton, one of the most important and influential artists of …
Inside the eye of the beholder: Edvard Munch II
In 1930, when Munch was 66 years old, an intraocular haemorrhage in his right eye affected his sight. For several …
Experimental fields of light and shadow: Light projections in The Tanks
For many centuries artists have been fascinated by the magical, visceral power of projected light as action, as a performative …
The cruel snare of memory: Studio visit
Carol Rama, the Italian self-taught artist born in 1918, has only recently gained international recognition for her highly erotic, visceral …
The city of dreams...and shoes: Etc. Essay: Chicano art
This autumn more than 60 cultural institutions throughout southern California will come together to tell the story of the Los …
Between the rocks and a hard place: Llyn Foulkes: Private view
Since the early 1960s the American artist and musician has created surreal and often politically satirical images, whose influences range …
This was the modern world - part three: Richard Hamilton at É«¿Ø´«Ã½
To coincide with the retrospective at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ of Richard Hamilton, one of the most important and influential artists of …
Abstraction sans frontières: International Exchanges: Modern Art and St Ives 1915-65
The show at Tate St Ives this summer explores the international context which shaped the work of artists in the …
Curiouser and curiouser: Alice in Wonderland I
When Charles Dodgson – more widely known as Lewis Carroll – made drawings in the early 1960s for his book …
The God-maker who did his job too well: Rubens and Britain
In 2008 Tate Members helped to buy Peter Paul Rubens’s important oil sketch created for the Banqueting House in Whitehall, …
Actions speak louder: The programme in the Tate Tanks
The Underground chambers of the old power station at Bankside, where oil once lurked with electric potential, will soon open …
A graphic wake-up call: Etc. Essay: Inspired by Ernst
In 1933 the pioneering Surrealist Max Ernst created an extraordinary publication called Une semaine de bonté. Arguably the first …
In the heat of the moment: Private View
‘I cannot work it out. I cannot resolve it. It is always different.’ An abstract sculpture of interlocking forged iron …
Inescapable truths: Gerhard Richter I
É«¿Ø´«Ã½â€™s exhibition explores the work produced over almost five decades by one of today’s most highly regarded artists. Richter …