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It is the size of this picture that stops you in your tracks. That and the energy of the paint applied with giant brushstrokes, big bits of paint,...
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Sir Peter Blake has created an alphabet of 'found' letters for Tate. He explains the inspiration for this artist project.
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Marina Warner introduces Paula Rego's new illustrations for Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre.
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A new exhibition at Tate Modern dares to imagine a better, more democratic world – and perhaps a better way of engaging with art. Tom Morton sets...
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Now in its 20th year, the Turner Prize will be broadcast by Channel 4 live from Tate Britain on 7 December. Justin Westover photographed the...
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Alan Davie was a vital post-war link between British and international art. Colette Swires introduces a retrospective of his 65-year career at Tate...
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Sausages and potatoes, fairytale images and the dots of newspaper photographs – Sigmar Polke explores modern reality through an extraordinary range...
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Paul Graham's new series of photographs represents a powerful meditation on race in contemporary America
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The year is 1819; Venice is fading under Austrian rule after a thousand years of independence and imperial glory. Britain's most famous artist, J.M...
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He has created rainbows, dyed rivers green and made water flow uphill. Now Olafur Eliasson is taking on Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Brian Cathcart...
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Tate magazine visited the Swiss-born artist at his Paris studio as he prepared for this autumn's group show Common Wealth at Tate Modern
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The Tate Archive is no longer a dusty destination of interest only to experts: now you can explore it from home. Frances Spalding leads an online tour
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Artist Bill Viola explains the uncanny origins of his major work, Five Angels for the Millennium, now at Tate Modern.
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Filmmaker, writer and influential teacher Peter Gidal gives a personal overview of A Century of Artists' Film in Britain, showing at Tate Britain...
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Henry Moore's global fame cast a huge shadow over a generation of younger British sculptors. Chris Turner examines the Oedipal reaction which ensued.
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Paul McCarthy's huge inflatables now loom outside Tate Modern. During their construction, the artist told Tate how Blockhead was born. Photographed...
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The distinguished abstract artist invited the photographer Eamonn McCabe to record her preparations for her major retrospective at Tate Britain
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Tate has this year acquired three important works by the Surrealist Dorothea Tanning. Tate curator Jennifer Mundy profiles the veteran New York...
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Paul Nash was preoccupied with his own mortality from childhood. But being posted as official artist to both world wars inspired him to some of his...
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Exclusively for Tate, artist Cindy Sherman has photographed her own studio. Betsy Berne – painter, novelist and fellow pugilist – goes 15 rounds...