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Between terror and ecstasy: Artistic hallucination
Stories of hallucinations in art and literature date back to the Bible, but the idea of the artistic hallucination is …
Beyond the easel: Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals and Indica at Tate Britain II
To coincide with the display, Tate Etc. talked to the Venezuelan-born artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (born 1923) about his early exhibition …
'Death has not required us to keep a day free': Damien Hirst at É«¿Ø´«Ã½
For the Love of God, Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull, has already become one of the most talked about works …
Giving time to time: Alighiero Boetti at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ I
One of the most important and influential Italian artists of the twentieth century, Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) is renowned for the …
Guernica... In a car showroom?
±Ê¾±³¦²¹²õ²õ´Ç’s Guernica went on display in a Manchester car showroom in early 1939, in support of the Spanish Republican cause. …
I do not seek Picasso, I find...
Read about artist Graham Sutherland's admiration for Picasso and regular visits to see him in the South of France
Infinity on a single canvas?: Yayoi Kusama at É«¿Ø´«Ã½
One of Japan’s most prolific artists, Yayoi Kusama is probably best known for her spot-covered rooms and objects. On the …
The invisible man: Behind the curtain
Royalist, revolutionary, pacifist, arms dealer, Communist, right-wing extremist, con man and traitor. Who was Gerald Hamilton (c.1888–1970)? He claimed among …
Large legacy of the little Spaniard: Picasso and Modern British Art at Tate Britain I
It is well known that Pablo Picasso initiated many important developments of twentieth-century art, but we know less about his …
Let me in: Migrations at Tate Britain
To coincide with the exhibition which explores British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, …
MicroTate 24
Four reflections on artworks in the Tate Collection
More to meet the eye: Contemporary drawings at Tate
Until the 1960s it was seen as a secondary act in the process of art making. Now a new generation …
'One of the most important days in my life': Alighiero Boetti at É«¿Ø´«Ã½
A long-term friend remembers his first encounter with the artist at the age of eighteen, and the subsequent effect this …
Optical allusion: Private view
How incredulity and irritation turned to fascination when an artist encountered Christopher Williams’s image of a cutaway section of a …
Optimistic abstraction: Charline von Heyl at Tate Liverpool
The curator of the forthcoming exhibition by the German abstract painter introduces her work, and a fellow artist pays homage
Planting a seed: Yayoi Kusama at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ II
One of the Japanese artist’s earliest memories was of the seed-harvesting field in the plant nursery owned by her family, …
You saw it here first
Find out which four trail-blazing galleries introduced Britain to the international avant-garde
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 …
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 …
Damien Hirst at É«¿Ø´«Ã½: The artist in conversation
Since he was a young teenager, Damien Hirst has enjoyed visiting Tate. From his early fascination with William Blake to …