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Family pleasures: Behind the curtain
Henrietta Garnett, a regular visitor to the Tate archive, recognises two painted calendars done by her grandmother Vanessa Bell.
Pretentious? Moi?: Document: Georges Mathieu
Bernard Marcadé on Georges Mathieu
New journeys in a teeming universe: Tate Triennial
On the eve of Tate Britain’s Triennial, Andrew Hunt explores the themes proposed by its curator, Nicholas Bourriaud.
Lure of the wild: Watercolour II
The artist Francis Towne’s near abstract eighteenth-century watercolours of Swiss glaciers were to inspire Eric Ravilious more than a century …
Hellfire, damnation... and pudding: John Martin
The celebrated New Zealand chef Peter Gordon creates a novel recipe inspired – unexpectedly – by John Martin's apocalyptic painting …
Powerfully lonely
The author of a forthcoming alternative history of London finds echoes of writers past in a post-futurist landscape inspired by …
Here Comes the Sun
David Hockney’s recent work has been inspired by the landscape and the changing seasons. Here, his friend Martin Gayford charts …
Mette-Sofie Ambeck '6 degrees of separation' 2000
'6 degrees of separation' is an artist book by Mette-Sofie Ambeck
Jeff Keen 1923–2012 Gazapocalypse – Return to the Golden Age 2012
Case study on Jeff Keen's Gazapocalypse – Return to the Golden Age 2012, part of Performance at Tate: Into the …
How to Paint Like Kandinsky
Ever wondered how Kandinsky painted his masterpieces? Find out how to paint an abstract work inspired by Kandinsky’s Cossacks, 1910-1
An Allegory of Man
Uncover the symbolism hidden in this 400-year-old painting
Emily Speed: Flatland
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Liverpool and listen to the audio description of the film
‘Men thinking, and women tranquil’: John Gibson’s Portraiture Practice
The sculptor John Gibson was a vocal critic of the genre of portraiture, and pitched his reputation around his classical …
Voice and Breath
Katrina Nzegwu reviews ‘Voice and Breath’, a two-night programme of contemporary artistic practices working at the intersection of performance, poetry …
Negative Process
James Nisbet on Salt Flat 1968 by Dennis Oppenheim | part of a Tate In Focus study
Kenneth Armitage’s Pandarus (version 8)
This paper concentrates on the making and meaning of Kenneth Armitage Pandarus (version 8) 1963, which was recently presented to …
Meetings of minds: Barry Flanagan III
Appreications from friends, fellow artists and a former pupil
Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design
In 1923 the painter Liubov Popova began creating designs for fabric to be manufactured by the First State Textile Printing …