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The Art of Protest
How do art and protest meet? We explore acts of defiance with artists, poets and activists
The Art of Failure
What does it mean to fail, and how can it lead to success? We hear the human stories behind art …
Clore Commission: Martin Boyce
The artist tells of the enduring influence on his work of Jan and Joël Martel's cubist sculptures
John Piper: Cut-and-Paste Landscapes
John Piper (1903–1922) worked across a diverse range of media and, as his grandson Luke recalls, he made collages inspired …
Surrealism in Egypt: ‘Long Live Degenerate Art’
The Art and Liberty group was active in Cairo from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, a time of political …
Lives of the Artists: Farid Belkahia
The Moroccan artist who was motivated by art traditions from across the globe found the greatest inspiration closest to home
Lives of the Artists: Angelica Kauffman
Reflecting on the life of the Swiss neo-classical painter who became one of the first members of the Royal Academy …
Private View: Edna Clarke Hall's watercolours
The artist’s extraordinary watercolours, based on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, reflected her frustration in her married life
In the Archive: Donald Rodney's ‘Splash Crowns’
Examining the powerful symbolism found in a sketchbook made by Donald Rodney while he was in hospital suffering from sickle-cell …
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Avatar
For the past five decades, the American artist and filmmaker has continually tested the boundaries between real and virtual identities. …
London 1968: The Poster Workshop
One of the founders looks back at the brief but prolific output of the Poster Workshop in London’s Camden Town
Story of an Artwork: John Singer Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 1885–6
The most ambitious plein-air picture the American artist ever painted was far more complicated than its loose style might suggest
Opinion: Why we don’t have to like masterpieces
A response to Cézanne's fiery comments on famous paintings he thought were overrated
Cathy Wilkes: Turner Prize Nominee 2008
The Northern Irish artist makes sculpture, paintings and installations
In the Archive: Anyone for Clarke's World-Famed Blood Mixture?
During a visit to the Tate Archive, one poet unearths a curious and outlandish medical remedy book from 1909
Gabriel Orozco at É«¿Ø´«Ã½
The mexican artist is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects
Details, Details: Paule Vézelay’s Curves and Circles 1930
One artist discovers a landscape of indeterminate bodily holes and protrusions in Vézelay’s abstract painting
Details, Details: Robert Mapplethorpe’s Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter 1979
Power and role play in Mapplethorpe’s double portrait
Paul Gauguin
The French painter was the ultimate global traveller
Goshka Macuga: Turner Prize Nominee 2008
Interview with Polish artist and Turner Prize 2008 nominee Goshka Macuga