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ArticleOphelia and the Pre-Raphaelites are back at Tate Britain! To celebrate, Andrew Dickson looks at Millais and four other artists who immortalised the...
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ArticleThe work of the British-born German artist Tino Sehgal exists solely as a set of choreographed gestures and spoken instructions acted out by...
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ArticleIt is well known that Pablo Picasso initiated many important developments of twentieth-century art, but we know less about his extraordinary impact...
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ArticleWilliam Kentridge was invited to make a projection on the fire screen of the Fenice opera theatre, which was primarily seen while the orchestra...
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ArticleIn 2008 Tate Members helped to buy Peter Paul Rubens’s important oil sketch created for the Banqueting House in Whitehall, The Apotheosis of James...
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ArticleThe acclaimed Amercian artist reveals a long-held fascination with Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1829–1896), one of Tate's most admired...
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ArticleOn the eve of his exhibition at Tate St Ives, the former Turner Prize winner introduces a fascinating project that creates an unlikely partnership...
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ArticleIn 1975 the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) made the piece Décor for the ICA, London. A large crab and a lobster sit at a table...
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ArticleHe was said to be one of the ‘most ingenious artists of his generation’ and someone who had ‘an infectious fascination for the world about him’,...
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To coincide with the forthcoming The World as a Stage exhibition at Tate Modern, Marie de Brugerolle explores how contemporary notions of the...
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ArticleCo-curators of the Tate Modern exhibition, ask some of the participating artists about its themes
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Article‘Since visual art practice has so decisively repudiated, problematised, complicated the whole business of pretending’, says Nicholas Ridout, ...
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ArticleTo coincide with Tate Modern's exhibition exploring his work as a film-maker, Jonas Mekas remembers the Dalí happenings.
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ArticleIn his second visit to the Tate archive Lawrence Norfolk looks for clues about W S Sickert among his donated possessions.
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Forget today’s celebrity icons. Paula Byrne looks at the first ever media frenzy for young actress and lover of the Prince of Wales, Mary Robinson,...