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Alex Katz: new exhibition at Tate St Ives
In 2012 Katz will celebrate his 85th birthday, and a career that spans a remarkable six decades. Here Katz introduces some of the themes of his work
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This is Britain: Alys Fowler
Gardening expert Alys Fowler finds two works of art at Tate Britain that speak to her passion for horticulture
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This is Britain: Jon Snow
Journalist Jon Snow takes us on roving tour of Tate’s collection to uncover the leading stories behind two politically charged works
Exhibition film
TateShots: Francesco Clemente on Alighiero Boetti
In 1974 Clemente embarked on a trip to Afghanistan with fellow artist Boetti, a journey that would shape both of their careers
Exhibition film
Damien Hirst: Art and Life
Shock, death, value, science and religion… some of the big themes in Damien Hirst’s work are tackled head on in this series of short films
Works in focus
This is Britain: Gizzi Erskine
Food writer and chef, Gizzi Erskine, take us on a gastronomic adventure through the Tate’s collection and introduces us to two of her favourite works of art
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This is Britain: Lianne La Havas
Singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas performs an intimate gig at Tate Britain
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This is Britain: Mark Francis
Mark Francis, the debonair socialite, reality television star and art enthusiast, discusses two works of art in Tate's collection that resonate and reveal a little of who he is really isExhibition film
Damien Hirst walkthrough with Ann Gallagher and Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst takes us through his exhibition at Tate Modern with the curator Ann Gallagher
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This is Britain: Lauren Laverne
Presenter Lauren Laverne picks two works from the BP British Art Displays at Tate Britain, as she explores the difficulties of being a muse
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First look: Kusama
A first look at the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern
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Music and live performance
TateShots: Laibach, Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde
The highlights of Laibach’s sell out concert at Tate Modern, on 14 April 2012, and rare interview with founding band member Ivan Novak
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TateShots: Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling looks back over his long career and explains why he made the shift from Figuration to Abstraction
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TateShots: Patrick Keiller
Discover Patrick Keiller’s new installation at Tate Britain, The Robinson Institute
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TateShots: Alighiero E Boetti
Curator Mark Godfrey walks us around the Alighiero Boetti exhibition at Tate Modern
Interview
TateShots: Damien Hirst, For the Love of God
Hirst discusses his work For the Love of God, a life-size platinum cast of an eighteenth century human skull, covered by 8,601 flawless diamonds
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TateShots: Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara’s new exhibition at Tate St Ives shows him to be a master story-teller, weaving fact and fiction to compelling and powerful effect
Interview
TateShots: Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk has long been interested in issues of authorship and identity; his artworks include images of himself disguised as Sid Vicious, Che Guevara and Andy Warhol amongst others
Interview
TateShots: Bruce Davidson's Subway
From his home in New York, photographer Bruce Davidson talked to TateShots about the series
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TateShots: Moby at Tate Modern
Moby, king of ambient electronic music, had a childhood fantasy of being left alone in a museum after hours. Tateshots made it reality, with a late night tour of Tate Modern
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TateShots: Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak, the illustrator and creative genius behind books such as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘In the Night Kitchen’, has died
Interview
TateShots: Mat Collishaw's Sordid Earth
Giant diseased infested flowers projected on to a massive 360-degree curtain made up of hanging silicone tendrils feature in Mat Collishaw’s Sordid Earth
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TateShots: Twitter with... David Hockney
David Hockney answers your questions
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TateShots: Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans often uses the history of his country, Belgium, and that of his own family as a starting point in his work
Interview
TateShots: Neville Gabie, Olympic artist in residence
Neville Gabie is the artist-in-residence for the London 2012 Olympic Games
Interview
TateShots: David Tremlett, the Manton staircase
The resulting painting, Drawing for Free Thinking, swathes an interior stairwell at the gallery in broad blocks of colour and line. TateShots climbed the scaffolding to document the process
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TateShots: Picasso and Modern British Art
A fascinating story of Picasso’s lifelong connections to and affection for Britain. Curator Chris Stephens shows us some of the highlights of the show
In the studio: meet the artists
Interview
TateShots: Barbara Hepworth
TateShots explored Barbara Hepworth’s former studio and gardens in St Ives, seeing her sculptures in their natural habitat
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John Wood and Paul Harrison
Welcome to the deadpan world of Harrison and Wood
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TateShots: Grayson Perry, studio visit
Grayson Perry afforded us the rare opportunity of a visit to his studio in Walthamstow, north-east London
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In the Studio: Jeff Koons
Artistic industry in the studio of Jeff Koons
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TateShots: Mona Hatoum, studio visit
Mona Hatoum shows TateShots around her studio, an old shop in the heart of Berlin
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John Baldessari: Pure Beauty
Based in Los Angeles since the 1960s, John Baldessari (b. 1931) is one of the most influential artists of his generation
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TateShots: Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley takes us on a tour of his studio
Interview
TateShots: Martin Parr, studio visit
Since the 1970s, Martin Parr has photographed aspects of British life, documenting and dissecting the way we live with a witty, unblinking eye. Parr met us at his London studio to talk about his work
Interview
TateShots: Mark Titchner, Studio Visit
Whilst showing us around Titchner also showed us what he is working on at the moment and explained why he is encouraging people to scream into a speaker during his new show
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In the Studio: Paula Rego
TateShots was invited to observe Paula Rego and the team at The Curwen Studio in Cambridgeshire as they set about turning one of her drawings into an editioned print
Art documentaries
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Yayoi Kusama: 9 February - 5 June 2012
The nine decades of Yayoi Kusama’s life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style
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Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean is the latest artist to take up the challenge of filling Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Her response, entitled ‘FILM’, is a silent 35mm looped film projected onto a monolith standing 13 metres tall
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, the exhibition ‘Gerhard Richter: Panorama’ groups together significant moments of his remarkable career
Interview
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower seeds
In this film he talks about his motivation, and goes back to the Chinese city of Jingdezhen to meet some of the 1,600 artisans who created the seeds for him
Interview
TateShots: Orozco
Creative, playful and inventive, Gabriel Orozco creates art in the streets, his apartment or wherever he is inspired
Exhibition film
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From The War In Afghanistan
In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century British photographer John Burke
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Chris Ofili: Exploding the Crystal
A review of Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings from the mid 1990s to today
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The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka
Miroslaw Balka was the tenth artist to be invited to transform the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern
