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Archives & Access project: the Archive Gallery – from digital to life and back again: Transforming Tate Britain
A blog post on the Archive Gallery at Tate Britain as part of the Archives & Access project
Hélio and I: Hélio Oiticica in London
Hélio Oiticica’s The Body of Colour comes to É«¿Ø´«Ã½ in June. Brazilian arts flourished in the 1950s, originating with …
‘I loved the bugs, they were gross.’ Ruby, age 9: Turner Prize
On a yearly basis it provokes passionate debate on the state of contemporary British art, and it has inspired other …
The artist and the Emperor: J.M.W. Turner
During a visit to Tate Britain, Katharina Fritsch finds herself ‘sucked into’ the allure and eccentric character of J.M.W. Turner’s …
New Voices: Speaking in Half-Whispers
Getting under the skin of Dorothea Tanning's enigmatic painting, A Mi-Voix 1958
Full Power
Before Bankside Power Station became É«¿Ø´«Ã½, a group of artists used the site to launch an explosive performance, writes …
Blurring the Boundaries between Art and Life (in the Museum?)
Anna Dezeuze, Blurring the Boundaries between Art and Life (in the Museum?); Tate Papers no.8
Gothic Romance and the Quixotic Hero:A Pageant for Henry Fuseli in 1783
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) was one of the most inventive artists of his age, exploring the strange and fantastic in a …
Fun, exotic and very modern: Patrick Caulfield at Tate Britain I
He preferred to be seen as an artist within the great European tradition of Juan Gris and Georges Braque, while …
Telling Tales
Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has been making paintings, collages, pastels, drawings, etchings and sculptures that have fought censorship, revolutionised …
Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: Two Episodes in the Artistic Approach to British Antiquity
The artistic representation of British antiquity brings in its wake a problem of methodology: how are the working assumptions of …
‘No Continuing City’: John Constable, John Britton and Views of Urban History
This article explores the place of urban subjects in works by the nineteenth-century artist John Constable, who is generally known …
The Fall of Anarchy : Politics and Anatomy in an Enigmatic Painting by J.M.W. Turner
The subject of Turner’s mysterious unfinished painting, known today as Death on a Pale Horse, is a problem that …
Of redemption and damnation: Mark Rothko I
Rothko believed he was "producing an art that would last for 1,000 years". It was a sentiment that was in …
Designing an archive digitisation project
From planning to delivery and all that's in between
Rothenstein in France
Tate In Focus project exploring The Doll’s House 1899–1900 by William Rothenstein
‘And now what, if my sacrifice was in vain?’: Paul Gaugin I
Before his self-imposed exhile in Tahiti, the pioneer of modernism spent his formative years in Brittany, northern France. Here, he …
California in Catastrophe
Tate Research In Focus project on Evidence 1977 by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel
The Modern Cult of Replicas: A Rieglian Analysis of Values in Replication
Sebastiano Barassi, The Modern Cult of Replicas: A Rieglian Analysis of Values in Replication; Tate Papers no.8, featuring the conservation …
Realising the Potential of Artist-Child Learning Encounters at ArtPlay
The City of Melbourne’s ArtPlay is open to children aged three to thirteen years and provides a wide range of …