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Article‘To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. The word nude, on...
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Last year Tate bought Roman Ondák's Good Feelings in Good Times, which consists of a queue that can be staged at any time, and has already been ...
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ArticleThe Green Goddess haunted a nation and fuelled its art, including that of Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec.
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ArticleThe British-born fin-de-siècle bohemian Charles Conder arrived in Paris in 1890, where he soon discovered a fondness for Absinthe. The Green...
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ArticleAssociated with the culture of refined abandon is the idea that art and alcohol are related, ending in tragically romantic self-destruction. Martin...
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ArticleMorgan Fisher mixes cinematic history, autobiography and art historical references in his exploration of filmmaking. Mark Webber investigates how...
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ArticleDexter Dalwood and Nancy Ireson explore the enduring influence and legacy of the self-taught French artist Henri Rousseau
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The body matters, more than at any other time in history. As Abi Titmuss appears in a Sapphic embrace on the cover of FHM magazine, Morgan Spurlock...
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ArticleSince her ironic Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab (1992), which delighted and enraged gallery goers in equal measure, Sarah Lucas has explored sexual...
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Cedric Price said in 2003, ‘A twenty-first century museum will utilise calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst...
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ArticleAt an 80th birthday celebration of the work of British artist John Latham, Paul Moorhouse looks into his central books motif.
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ArticleTacita Dean explores the elastic nature of time and space, and is intrigued by futuristic-looking abandoned buildings that have been ‘left to...
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ArticleRichard MacCormac reflects on the relationship between sculpture and architecture in the light of a visit to Anthony Caro's retrospective at Tate...
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ArticleSista Pratesi, Tomma Abts, Gerald Davies and Marcel Dzama reflect on a work in the Tate collection
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In his first visit to the Tate archive, Lawrence Norfolk searches out some footwear-related items.
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ArticleRichard Hamblyn looks at the use of sky to load meaning in painting since the Renaissance, including the work of John Constable, Alexander Cozens,...
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Kathleen Jamie writes a poem exclusively for Tate Etc. inspired by Rousseau's painting The Merry Jesters 1906
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ArticleIn 1855 Roger Fenton took a photograph that became an iconic image of the Crimean War. The story of its making has itself become part of the medium...
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ArticleThe late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object, with the emphasis shifting away from the static artwork to one that engaged more...
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The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object through ‘Open Systems.’ Anna Dezeuze explores aspects of this period.