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Artist Versus Teacher: The Problem of David Bomberg’s Pedagogical Legacy
The British artist David Bomberg’s parallel activities of teaching and painting during his later career are often treated as oppositional. …
Inside the eye of the beholder: Edvard Munch II
In 1930, when Munch was 66 years old, an intraocular haemorrhage in his right eye affected his sight. For several …
Are We Dreaming?
The bewildering proliferation of new technologies in the postwar era presented artists with unique opportunities for creative expression. But how …
Alan Johnston's Tactile Geometry
Artist Alan Johnston was commissioned to create a piece of art for the ceiling of Tate Britain's cafe in 2013
MixTate: Hieroglyphic Being on Wifredo Lam
Chicago-born Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being) presents a new piece of music inspired by the work of Wifredo Lam
Straight Talking
Roshini Kempadoo reflects on her photographic series Impressions Passing, which transformed artefacts of discrimination into a platform for dialogue …
Five Ways Aliza Nisenbaum Approaches Portraiture
From paintings of train drivers to National Health Service workers, explore this artist’s style of portraiture
Baroque Flute Recording and Interview with Hannah French
Tate Research In Focus project on Thomas Gainsborough's painting Peter Darnell Muilman, Charles Crokatt and William Keable in a Landscape …
'To drag the past into the present and re-animate it'
What is it like to sit for Frank Auerback every week for more than 30 years? Tate curator, Catherine Lampert, …
Lives of the Artists: Edith Tudor-Hart: My Great-Aunt, the Spy
The compelling history of the Viennese-born, British-based photographer who led an extraordinary double life, as told by her great-nephew
William Hogarth at Tate
The story of art in this country often begins with William Hogarth, who died in late October 1764. Satirist, printmaker, …
Half woman, half goddess: Nicholas Hilliard's 'Queen Elizabeth I'
There are many portraits of Elizabeth I, but few reflect her image as steely icon as perfectly as the one …
British Baroque: Power and Illusion
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Britain
‘When he paints a portrait I read a life’
Walter Sickert’s radical paintings pushed British art into the 20th century, transforming the representation of everyday life. Here, before the …
Did Picasso paint this in a day?
We investigate whether Picasso really painted Nude Woman in a Red Armchair in one day
Private View: Stay as you are, Mrs Blake
William Blake's simple pencil drawing of his (long-suffering) wife Catherine reveals the tenderness in their relationship
Bonnie Greer on Ellen Gallagher
The American artist has Irish and African American origins, which have shaped the texture and subject matter of her practice