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Apocalypse now: John Martin's The Great Day of His Wrath
Dan Graham on John Martin’s painting of the Apocalypse, The Great Day of His Wrath
Where abstraction and comics collide: Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger's animated films that were partly influenced by the poetic abstraction of Kandinsky's paintings were among the first to …
When you paint a picture you are afraid of giving it your life – the life where you are dreaming realities: The letters and sketches of James Boswell from Tate Archive
More than 60 years before the current presence of British troops in Iraq, the artist James Boswell (1906–1971) was posted …
We have mail: Behind the curtain
In his third visit to the Tate archive, Lawrence Norfolk explores a movement that used post as its medium.
The reversibility of the real: Pierre Huyghe
The French art critic Nicholas Bourriaud examines the ways in which Pierre Huyghe enjoys upsetting traditional expectations of how art …
Private pleasure for the public good?: É«¿Ø´«Ã½ Rehang
As É«¿Ø´«Ã½ completes its first comprehensive rehang, we bring together three art professionals with an insider’s view of the …
Prisoners of love: Early bondage
English visual art contains a wealth of bondage imagery, particularly from Aubrey Beardsley, the master of the whiplash line. James …
More than surreal: Leonora Carrington
Two drawings by the underrated artist Leonora Carrington, purchased by Tate, go on display at É«¿Ø´«Ã½ for the first …
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Contemporary reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Looking through the Large Glass: Marcel Duchamp in England
Marcel Duchamp spent a few weeks of 1913 in Herne Bay in north Kent. Jeremy Millar gives an insight into …
A Journey that was: Aleksandra Mir on Pierre Huyghe
Artist Aleksandra Mir reflects on her experience of working with Pierre Huyghe
The final visitor: John Constable II
Steven Sherrill pens a fictional account of a studio visit to the English painter John Constable
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions": Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky’s ground-breaking theoretical publication Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1912), with its emphasis on colours as “vibrations of the …
The End of perspective?: Symmetry
When David Brewster invented the kaleidoscope in 1816 he created geometric imagery with light. The geometric art that followed played …
The edge of England: John Constable
Poet Lavinia Greenlaw pens a poem on Constable inspired by a visit to the ruins of Hadleigh Castle, Kent.
Black moods
Gabriel Ramin Schor surveys the dark passages of black’s meaning and how artists have used it in their work.
Be seen and be heard: Barbara Kruger
Pipilotti Rist encounters the work of Barbara Kruger
We all have dreaming minds, and we are all capable of being terrified: Gothic Nightmares
The gothic has remained one of the most universal genres, which has attracted writers, filmmakers, musicians and artists across the …
A ouija board quest to contact the spirit of Josef Albers
Designer Paul Elliman seeks satisfaction of his curiosity and the typefaces designed by Josef Albers while at the Bauhaus in …
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Peter Davidson, Bjorn van der Horst, Pelé Cox and Billy Childish reflect on a work in the Tate Collection.