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TateShots : Video
TateShots: Linder - 'The Ultimate Form'
Barbara Hepworth’s sculptural forms become fluid, bodily movements in a new dance performance by the artist Linder
Tate Britain : Exhibition film
Meet 500 years of British Art: Director's Highlights
Tate Britain Director Penelope Curtis selects highlights and considers some of the surprising visual created by the new displays
TateShots : Exhibition film
TateShots: Meet 500 Years of British Art: Curator Chris Stephens
Curator Chris Stephens introduces Tate Britain’s new displays
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Mark Ruwedel
Bomb craters from nuclear tests are captured by Mark Ruwedel in a series of photographs that reveal human history through landscape
Choucair : Video
Saloua Raouda Choucair: From Beirut to Tate Modern
We explore the journey that Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East, has taken from Beirut to Tate Modern
TateShots : Video
TateShots: Zarina Hashmi
Zarina Hashmi talks to TateShots about a life mapped through art
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Allen Jones on Lichtenstein
Significant Pop Art figure and close friend of Roy Lichtenstein, Allen Jones, remembers what captivated him when he first encountered Lichtenstein’s work
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Julian Opie on landscape
Julian Opie tells TateShots about the challenge of painting a day in the life of a landscape
TateShots : Video
TateShots: Roy Lichtenstein
Take a tour of Tate Modern’s Lichtenstein exhibition, with curator Iria Candela
BMW Tate Live : Film
BMW Tate Live: Charles Atlas and collaborators
Award winning artist and filmmaker, Charles Atlas actively crosses the borders between the fields of dance, performance, and the visual arts
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Lisa Milroy
Lisa Milroy invites us into her East London studio and talks about her long-standing love affair with paint
TateShots : Interview, Documentary
TateShots: Kurt Schwitters's Portraits
Whilst interned in a camp during the Second World War, and in his later life in Britain, Schwitters made hundreds of portraits to earn a living. TateShots went to meet some of his sitters
Meet the artists
TateShots : Video
TateShots: Ibrahim El-Salahi
Artist Ibrahim El-Salahi discusses his work Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams 1, a large-scale oil painting recently acquired by Tate, with TateShots in his Oxford studio
TateShots : 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
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake discusses creating his illustrations and his new book about his work in public spaces
The Unilever Series : Video
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
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Rasheed Araeen's Zero to Infinity
First performed in 1968, Zero to Infinity, by Rasheed Araeen was restaged recently in The Tanks at Tate Modern.
Gerhard Richter : Exhibition film
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
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Grayson Perry, studio visit
Grayson Perry afforded us the rare opportunity of a visit to his studio in Walthamstow, north-east London
Ai Weiwei : 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
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Mona Hatoum, studio visit
Mona Hatoum shows TateShots around her studio, an old shop in the heart of Berlin
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Michael Craig-Martin - Educating Damien
Artist Michael Craig-Martin, the man who helped foster the development of the ‘Young British Artists’, discusses the early work of one of his most famous pupils, Damien Hirst
TateShots : Film
TateShots: Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling looks back over his long career and explains why he made the shift from Figuration to Abstraction
In the frame
The Space : Interview
The Space: All The Bells
Watch as participants, young and old, across London and the UK signalled the first day of the London Olympics with a fanfare of bell-ringing as part of Martin Creed’s Work No. 1197
The Space : Interview
The Space: Olympic Posters
London 2012 commissioned twelve of the UK’s leading artists to create images to celebrate The Olympic Games and The Paralympic Games
The Space : Interview
The Space: Cerith Wyn Evans at the De La Warr Pavilion
Cerith Wyn Evans describes his exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion – a wonderful Modernist icon on the seafront at Bexhill on Sea – as ‘a love letter to the building’
The Space : Interview
The Space: We Face Forward
We Face Forward is a season of contemporary art and music from West Africa taking place in Manchester between June and September, as part of the London 2012 Festival
Art in action
The Tanks at Tate Modern : Interview
The Tanks: Suzanne Lacy
The artist, Suzanne Lacy revisits this performance and talks about its presentation in Tate Modern’s new space, The Tanks
TateShots : Video
TateShots: Eddie Peake
London-based artist Eddie Peake talks about the process behind his new performance
TateShots : Interview
TateShots: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
TateShots captured the final rehearsals of Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich and spoke with its choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
TateShots : Video
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
The Tanks at Tate Modern : Documentary
The Tanks: Opening Party with Adrian Searle
Art critic Adrian Searle gives his first impression of Tate Modern’s new exhibition space
BMW Tate Live : Performance and music
BMW Tate Live: Performance Room - Harrell Fletcher
Watch Harrell Fletcher’s Where I’m calling from, performed on 28 June 2012 as part of the BMW Tate Live: Performance Room series
BMW Tate Live : Performance and music
BMW Tate Live: Performance Room - Emily Roysdon
Watch Emily Roysdon’s new collaborative performance work, performed at Tate Modern as part of the BMW Tate Live: Performance Room series
BMW Tate Live : Performance and music
BMW Tate Live: Performance Room - Pablo Bronstein
Watch Pablo Bronstein’s Constantinople Kaleidoscope, performed on 26 April 2012 as part of the BMW Tate Live: Performance Room series
BMW Tate Live : Performance and music
BMW Tate Live: Performance Room - Jérôme Bel
A second chance to watch Jerome Bell’s performance of Shirtology 2012 captured live Thursday 22nd March 2012 at Tate Modern
Tate Liverpool: Doug Aitken - The Source
Interview, Film
Doug Aitken: The Source - William Eggleston
Renowned photographer William Eggleston talks to Doug Aitken about how shooting in colour was a decision he made ‘right away’, and the surprises and purpose in each composition
Doug Aitken interview : Interview
Doug Aitken - The Source: Ryan Trecartin
Doug Aitken talks to artist Ryan Trecartin about the excitement of collaborating, and how new people and places inspire fresh starting points in his work
Doug Aitken interview : Interview
Doug Aitken - The Source: Richard Phillips
‘Art isn’t limited to passive reflection’ Doug Aitken talks to artist Richard Phillips
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Paolo Soleri
Doug Aitken visits visionary architect Paolo Soleri at the site of his ‘eco-city’ Arcosanti in Arizona
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Jack Pierson
Artists Doug Aitken and Jack Pierson talk about the different elements within Pierson’s work: language, image, decoration and the theatrical aesthetic he works towards
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: James Murphy
Doug Aitken talks to musician James Murphy about ‘looking for alchemy in everyday sound’
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Stephen Shore
Doug Aitken talks to photographer Stephen Shore about his work, his methods and his time spent with Andy Warhol
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Jacques Herzog
What is the starting point for the creative act? ‘It’s instinct…a lot of instinct, and very fast’ says Tate Modern architect Jacques Herzog in this interview with Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Philippe Parreno
Artist Philippe Parreno discusses ‘triggers’ for creativity and his working process with Doug Aitken as part of of Aitken’s artwork The Source
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Liz Diller
Doug Aitken talks to architect Liz Diller about creativity, influences and architecture in the 21st century as part of his artwork The Source
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Jack White
Musician Jack White and artist Doug Aitken discuss how environment influences creativity, as part of Aitken’s artwork The Source
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Mike Kelley
In one of his last interviews, Mike Kelley explores what motivates him with fellow artist Doug Aitken. The film is part of Aitken’s artwork The Source, an installation at Tate Liverpool
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart gets out his Gibson guitar to muse on what makes a song with artist Doug Aitken. This film features in The Source, an installation at Tate Liverpool
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Beck
Musician Beck and artist Doug Aitken riff on the question of how an idea starts. This film features in The Source, an installation at Tate Liverpool
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: David Adjaye
Architect David Adjaye dives into ideas with artist Doug Aitken, with whom he collaborated in designing the installation The Source at Tate Liverpool
Doug Aitken interview : Video
Doug Aitken - The Source: Tilda Swinton
Actress Tilda Swinton shares her thoughts on creativity with artist Doug Aitken. This film features in The Source, an installation at Tate Liverpool
TateShots : Exhibition film
Tateshots: Doug Aitken - The Source
Musician Jack White, actress Tilda Swinton, artist Mike Kelley and many other celebrated cultural figures discuss the root of their creativity with leading contemporary artist Doug Aitken
