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Beyond the threshold: Jeff Wall
Sheena Wagstaff travels to downtown Vancouver and discovers how the urban environment has found its way into the work of …
Border crossing: Open Systems II
The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object through ‘Open Systems.’ Anna Dezeuze explores aspects of this …
Bound to fail: Open Systems I
The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object, with the emphasis shifting away from the static artwork …
Cured by colour
Christopher Turner explores how the study of colour by artists, writers and scientists has influenced our sense of the world.
A fearless embrace of our common existential situation as frail, short-sighted creatures lost in space in a temporarily lucky planet: Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s vast earthwork Spiral Jetty 1970 became an instant icon of land art, partly thanks to iconic photography by …
In the flesh: Francis Bacon
Artist and filmmaker Mike Figgis finds that a visit to Tate Britain is ‘like walking through a collective unconscious that …
Frida on my mind
Frida Kahlo: feature article by Tracey Emin in Tate Etc. magazine, issue 4
From the head to the heart: Behind the curtain
In his fourth visit to the Tate archive, Paul Farley finds some resonant human remains
The material world: Richard Deacon
Sculpture was historically the domain of the artist-worker, armed with hammer and chisel. Now the artist may use any material …
MicroTate 4
Richard Holloway, Edward Allington, David Austen and Ben Faccini reflect on a work in the Tate collection
Mind fields: The changing landscape of Britain
Tate Etc. introduces eleven personal responses to artworks that reflect the changing face of a nation.
Thy hand, by Nature guided, marks the line – That stamps perfection on the form divine: Joshua Reynolds
Forget today’s celebrity icons. Paula Byrne looks at the first ever media frenzy for young actress and lover of the …
Tune in, turn on, light up: The summer of love
During the 1960s, the light show became an important part of both the club and rock concert experience – no …
And the word was made art: John Latham
At an 80th birthday celebration of the work of British artist John Latham, Paul Moorhouse looks into his central books …
A celestial journey: Clouds
Richard Hamblyn looks at the use of sky to load meaning in painting since the Renaissance, including the work of …
The death of the body
The body matters, more than at any other time in history. As Abi Titmuss appears in a Sapphic embrace on …
A drink among friends: Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec II
The British-born fin-de-siècle bohemian Charles Conder arrived in Paris in 1890, where he soon discovered a fondness for Absinthe. The …
The drink that fuelled a nation's art: Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec
The Green Goddess haunted a nation and fuelled its art, including that of Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Escape from the filmic Bermuda Triangle: Morgan Fisher
Morgan Fisher mixes cinematic history, autobiography and art historical references in his exploration of filmmaking. Mark Webber investigates how the …
The history of future technology: Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean explores the elastic nature of time and space, and is intrigued by futuristic-looking abandoned buildings that have been …