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'It was like drawing, but with scissors… there was sensuality in the cutting': Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
One person who witnessed Matisse making the cut-outs first hand was his one-time assistant Jacqueline Duhême, who, as a twenty-year-old …
All the World’s a Stage
Since emerging as a key figure of the British Black arts movement in the 1980s, artist and cultural activist Lubaina …
Van Dyck and France under the Ancien Régime 1641–1793
Examining Anthony Van Dyck’s reputation in France from his death in 1641 to the opening of the Musée du Louvre …
Guided Freedom: Aesthetics, Tutelage, and the Interpretation of Art
This paper examines the operations of post-Kantian aesthetic discourses as parts of cultural technologies that induct individuals into particular kinds …
Bernard Perlin: Europe’s American
Tate In Focus research project exploring Orthodox Boys 1948 by Bernard Perlin
Ruins and Non-u-ments
Tate Research In Focus study on Walls Paper 1972 by Gordon Matta-Clark
Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors
Find out more about our exhibition at St Ives
A Lively Parrot: Frances Hodgkins's Wings Over Water
It is most likely that Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) began the painting Wings over Water in Bodinnick, Cornwall, in 1931 and …
Biopolitical Effigies: The Volatile Life-Cast in the Work of Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson
In the late 1960s and early 1970s American artists Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson independently created wax effigies and …
To the Ends of the Earth: Art and Environment: Art & Environment
Introducing the group of articles devoted to the theme of ‘Art & Environment’ in?Tate Papers?no.17,?this essay reflects …
He Chengyao 何成瑶
Through a combination of performance, video and photography, He Chengyao (born 1964) explores gender, mental illness and the body as …
Lucian Freud: Real Lives
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Liverpool and listen to the Lucian Freud audio guide
The restless storyteller: Juan Mu?oz
He was said to be one of the ‘most ingenious artists of his generation’ and someone who had ‘an infectious …
Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Critique of International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art
Reviewing international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art, Paul Gladston argues for the necessity of new …
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Seven Things to Know: Dora Maar
Explore the extraordinary life and career of this painter and photographer
Surface tension
Thomas Ruff insists that his photographs capture only 'the surface of things'. But is there more than meets the eye?
Everything is illuminated: Document: Künstlergruppe Brücke
In 1905 four young Dresden art students, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Fritz Bleyl, set up the …
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 …