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Alan Davie: Entrance to a Paradise
Essay on the painter Alan Davie accompanying his BP Spotlight display at Tate Britain during 2014
BP Spotlight: Bodies of Nature: Bodies of (Human) Nature: Nymphs in British Art 1780–1840
Bodies of (Human) Nature: Nymphs in British Art 1780–1840. Essay by Cora Gilroy-Ware for Tate's BT Spotlights display, examining the …
Curving Round: David Sylvester and the ‘Rediscovery’ of David Bomberg
Lee Hallman considers how David Sylvester’s role in the rehabilitation of David Bomberg’s reputation in the 1950s and 1960s illuminates …
The Purloined Landscape: Photography and Power in the American West
John Beck argues that Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1844) about a secret hidden in plain sight offers …
That Uncertain Object: David Sylvester’s Conception of Criticism as a Personal Affair
It has become almost routine to dismiss direct and ‘unmediated’ analyses of artworks but in this essay Brendan Prendeville argues …
Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Critique of International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art
Reviewing international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art, Paul Gladston argues for the necessity of new …
Paolozzi’s Pop New Brutalist World: Rothenstein Lecture
In its engagement with mass media and modern industry, the work of Eduardo Paolozzi combined pop tendencies with the logic …
Mira Schendel’s Gesture: On Art in Vilém Flusser’s Thought, with ‘Mira Schendel’ by Flusser
In his theory of communication, philosopher and writer Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) referred to art often, yet unsystematically. This article proposes …
Seeking ‘A Blazing Reality’: Nasreen Mohamedi’s Photographs
Explore the artist’s distinctive photographic practice with Eleanor Clayton, co-curator of the Nasreen Mohamedi exhibition Tate Liverpool, 6 June – …
Nada Raza: The waves in my mind: Notes on Nasreen Mohamedi through the lens, and from the sea
In Nada Raza: The waves in my mind, assistant curator at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ Nada Raza explores Mohamedi’s fascination with the …
William Klein: In Pictures
An exclusive interview with photographer William Klein and first-ever glimpse behind the scenes his Paris studio
A Review of the Literature on Young People’s Motivation and Gallery Engagement
This literature review provides an overview of key research, policy and practice around the motivation of young people to engage …
Tate Learning: Vision and Practice
At Tate our vision is to inspire new ways of learning with art and specifically with °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s Collection in a …
Tate Painting and the Art of Stereoscopic Photography
Tate Painting and the Art of Stereoscopic Photography
‘Everything Was Getting Smashed’: Three Case Studies of Play and Participation, 1965–71
In this essay Hilary Floe considers instances of chaotic ‘over-participation’ in three art exhibitions that took place between 1965 and …
Duchamp, Childhood, Work and Play: The Vernissage for First Papers of Surrealism , New York, 1942
Visitors to the opening of the First Papers of Surrealism exhibition in New York in 1942 were disorientated, not only …
No End to the End: The Desert as Eschatology in Late Modernity
At the height of the Cold War, artists, writers and filmmakers in America turned to the desert as a space …
Hogarth at the Tate
Curatorial essay by Tim Batchelor to accompany BP Spotlight: William Hogarth 1697–1764, Tate Britain 27 October 2014 – 26 April …
2: Collection and Display: National beginnings
This curatorial essay by Tim Batchelor explores how British art as displayed at the Tate began with Hogarth. Written to …
3: Collection and Display: An independent Tate
This curatorial essay by Tim Batchelor explores how Tate's collection of Hogarth's increased after Second World War. Written to accompany …