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‘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 …
Artists, art, the media and the public: Turner Prize
Each year the Turner Prize generates media coverage which gives only a fleeting idea of the practice of the artists …
The Sun is God: J.M.W. Turner
New York-based video artist Paul Pfeiffer explains how J.M.W. Turner’s painting Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after …
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 …
Other worlds: William Blake
William Blake famously declared: “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.” His visionary work is on …
The grandfather of satire: William Hogarth
William Hogarth was one of the founders of a satire that led all the way to the modern comic book …
Unfinished? Repulsive? Or the work of a prophet?: Late Turner
Turner’s late pictures were dismissed as works of ‘senile decreptitude’ and questioned even by his most devoted disciple, John Ruskin. …
River of dreams: Turner Whistler Monet
When the seventeenth-century diarist John Evelyn described London as a ‘Hellish and dismall Cloud of SEA-COALE’, he was one among …
Reality is ephemeral: Turner colour experiments
The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is well known for his large-scale installations and sculptures using ethereal materials such as light, …
We can still bankrupt ourselves for love...: Private view: William Rothenstein
British photographer Chris Shaw delves into a dark, enigmatic painting in Tate’s collection – William Rothenstein’s The Doll's House 1899–1900. …
Experiments on Paper: Vignettes by JMW Turner
10 June 2024 – 13 April 2025
This room presents a selection of Turner’s ‘vignettes’, small watercolours made as illustrations for books
