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Five episodes introducing the art of performance

Art in hospitals can be a culturally significant experience if the approach is right

¡®Highbrow¡¯ and ¡®lowbrow¡¯ art ¨C the cultural hierarchies have been with us for over 100 years, but it is time ¡­

The sweat and toil of assembling a complex sculpture

One artist remembers the inspirational artist and teacher

A response to Ai Weiwei's quotation on art's relation to democracy

Merry-Go-Round is one of the most recognisable works in Tate's collection, but how did the painting come about?

Since the birth of humans as sentient beings, we have believed in the animistic nature of things ¨C of plants, ¡­

The painting, now in the Tate collection, once hung above the desk of modernist critic Clement Greenberg ¨C and was ¡­

Cai Jin (born 1965) works with oil paint in vibrant colours. Her most celebrated work is the Banana Plant series, ¡­

Chen Qiulin (born 1975) works primarily with the moving image but also performance, photography and installation. Interested in reality for ¡­

Working in moving image, Fang Lu (born 1981) is inspired by popular culture and daily life experience. Her work reveals ¡­

Gao Ling (born 1980) has an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing installation, photography and performance. Within her works Gao challenges the relationship ¡­

Through a combination of performance, video and photography, He Chengyao (born 1964) explores gender, mental illness and the body as ¡­

Tao Aimin (born 1974) works across media often combining installation with oil painting and video. Tao has worked on several ¡­

Xiang Jing (born 1968) works primarily with fibreglass sculpture to express her investigation of the ¡®internality¡¯ of human nature. Her ¡­

Five episodes introducing the art of performance

We take a look at some of the ways in which artists dealt with and reflected on the horrific consequences ¡­