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A Sketch at Every Turn

Intimate, beautiful and extremely delicate, J.M.W. Turner’s sketchbooks are an insight into the painter’s extraordinary imagination

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Interview: William Kentridge at Teatro La Fenice

William Kentridge was invited to make a projection on the fire screen of the Fenice opera theatre, which was primarily …

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J.M.W. Turner is revered as a landscape painter but his art is also suffused with the wonders of modern technology, …

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Tate Papers no.27: Spring 2017

Exchanges between British and American artists in the years 1880–1980 are the theme of this issue, which includes explorations of …

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‘Fire and Water’: Turner and Constable in the Royal Academy, 1831

Pictures by John Constable and J.M.W. Turner hung side by side in the Royal Academy in 1831, an arrangement orchestrated …

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‘Men thinking, and women tranquil’: John Gibson’s Portraiture Practice

The sculptor John Gibson was a vocal critic of the genre of portraiture, and pitched his reputation around his classical …

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
exhibited 1845
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Turner Prize 2000 artists: Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans won the Turner Prize 2000 for his exhibitions at Interim Art, London, Städtische Galerie, Remscheid, and Andrea Rosen …

Turner Prize 1994 artists: Willie Doherty

Willie Doherty is an Irish photographer, video artist and installation artist. He studied Fine Art at Ulster Polytechnic (1978–81). Influenced …

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Letter to Ben Nicholson from his father William while working at Folly Farm

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