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Set in Stonehenge: Carl Andre
Carl Andre’s uncle reveals how a trip to the English countryside to visit his relatives in the 1950s inspired Carl …
Temple of mysteries: Mark Rothko
John Banville writes a personal appreciation of Rothko after a visit to É«¿Ø´«Ã½â€™s Rothko Room.
We have mail: Behind the curtain
In his third visit to the Tate archive, Lawrence Norfolk explores a movement that used post as its medium.
When you paint a picture you are afraid of giving it your life – the life where you are dreaming realities: The letters and sketches of James Boswell from Tate Archive
More than 60 years before the current presence of British troops in Iraq, the artist James Boswell (1906–1971) was posted …
Where abstraction and comics collide: Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger's animated films that were partly influenced by the poetic abstraction of Kandinsky's paintings were among the first to …
Apocalypse now: John Martin's The Great Day of His Wrath
Dan Graham on John Martin’s painting of the Apocalypse, The Great Day of His Wrath
Art for fiction's sake: The art of writing
In the Studio: Will Self tracks the ever-changing relationship between the literary and visual arts from John Keats to J.G. …
Dances with sculpture: David Smith
The American artist David Smith was best known for his large muscular sculptures –  the product of heavy welding and …
The flowering of a new unreality?: Fischli/Weiss II
Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s first New York solo exhibition in 1986 at the Sonnabend Gallery featured replicas of regular …
A genteel iconoclasm: Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg was fascinated by Willem de Kooning, and in 1953 asked the artist if he could erase one of …
‘I’d like to have stepped on Goya’s toes, shouted in his ears and punched him in the face’: Jake and Dinos Chapman
Jake and Dinos Chapman obsessively return to Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes’ gore-filled The Disasters of War series. Jake …
Making a horse with dad: David Smith II
David Smith was best known for his large, muscular sculptures, but also had a vivid interest in contemporary dance. Here …
Messages from a master: Hans Holbein
To coincide with Holbein in England at Tate Britain, five contributors respond to the work of the artist. Michel Onfray, …
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Francis Wells on Luke Fildes’s The Doctor 1891, Alexa de Ferranti on William Hogarth’s The Painter and his Pug 1745, …
My childhood companions: David Smith III
David Smith’s daughter Candida Smith describes her childhood at Bolton Landing, and the artist in his studio
The Real St Ives story
For a few extraordinary years in the post-war era, the small town of St Ives was an art centre of …
The revelation of erasure
‘Erasure is merely a matter of making things disappear: there is always some detritus strewn about in the aftermath…some reminder …
Sympathetic magic: Behind the curtain
In his first visit to the Tate archive, John Burnside communes with the paintbox of Paul Nash
The way things went: Fischli/Weiss III
The diverse body of work created by the Fischli/Weiss collaboration ranges from polyurethane trompe l’oeil buckets to films of home-made …
Working it out: Fischli/Weiss
Ryan Gander praises Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s ten-point manifesto How to work better