Tate Events

20-10-2009 Miroslaw Balka in conversation

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:51:29 +0000

Miroslaw Balka talks to art critic and historian Paulo Herkenhoff about his intriguing new work in the Turbine Hall.

19-10-2009 Architecture+Art: Crossover and Collaboration - Edi Rama and Anri Sala

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:48:49 +0000

A discussion of artistic urbanism, the city as canvas and exhibition, and public art in its most direct form.

10-10-2009 Good Business is the Best Art - Part 3

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:15 +0100

Taking Andy Warhol's notorious provocation as a starting point, this short symposium explores in greater depth some of the issues raised by our current exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World. Speakers approach the complex interactions between artists and commerce in contemporary life from a range of critical perspectives.

10-10-2009 Good Business is the Best Art - Part 2

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:23:50 +0100

10-10-2009 Good Business is the Best Art - Part 1

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:23:19 +0100

08-10-2009 John Baldessari: Talking Art

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:20:17 +0100

Having been awarded the 2009 Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement at the 53rd Venice Biennale and just before the opening of his exhibition at Tate Modern, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, the artist discusses his career with fellow artist Simon Patterson.

12-06-2009 Archiving the Artist - Part 3

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:28:23 +0100

At a time when artists' archives are being increasingly valued, this study day brings together leading artists, archivists and art historians to explore some key issues. How should artists and archivists deal with 'all this stuff'? How may we interpret the sketchbooks, ephemera, recordings and other materials that artists leave behind? When may the artist's archive become an art work itself? Speakers include David Batchelor, Jamie Shovlin, Anna McNally and Jane Stevenson.

12-06-2009 Archiving the Artist - Part 2

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:27:52 +0100

12-06-2009 Archiving the Artist - Part 1

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:26:49 +0100

19-06-2009 Eye of the Storm Day 2 - Part 5

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:27:42 +0100

This two-day symposium brings together scientists, artists, social scientists and policy-makers to explore scientific controversy from an interdisciplinary perspective. From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, Eye of the Storm will touch on brilliance and ego, dissent and whistle-blowing, big science, high finance, deviant science, the reliability of knowledge and the legislation of uncertainty. Speakers include Sheila Jasanoff, Eduardo Kac, Roger Malina, Rod Dickinson and Oron Catts.
Organised in collaboration with and supported by The Arts Catalyst in association with Leonardo/OLATS

19-06-2009 Eye of the Storm Day 2 - Part 4

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:27:04 +0100

19-06-2009 Eye of the Storm Day 2 - Part 3

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:26:34 +0100

19-06-2009 Eye of the Storm Day 2 - Part 2

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:25:53 +0100

19-06-2009 Eye of the Storm Day 2 - Part 1

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:25:14 +0100

19-06-2009 Eye of the Storm Day 1 - Part 2

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:24:08 +0100

19-06-2009 Eye of the Storm Day 1 - Part 1

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:22:50 +0100

27-05-2009 BP Artist Talk: Peter Blake

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:36:16 +0100

Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop art movement, Peter Blake has been one of the best-known artists of his generation. In conversation with Marco Livingstone, author of the forthcoming monograph Peter Blake: One-Man Show, Blake will reflect on his practice, with painting as the core of his work and excursions into Pop art, collage, sculpture, graphics and printmaking.

24-06-2009 Richard Long: Curator's Talk

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:15:30 +0100

Richard Long came to prominence in the 1960s as part of an international generation of artists who extended the possibilities of sculpture beyond traditional materials. Clarrie Wallis, curator of Richard Long: Heaven and Earth, discusses how Long initiated new procedures for art grounded in direct contact with landscape, and the continuity of this approach.

10-06-2009 Blake 1809: Curator's Talk: William Blake and the Language of Exhibitions

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:02:50 +0100

In conjunction with the current display, this talk will explore William Blake's 1809 one-man exhibition in the context of early-nineteenth century exhibition culture in London. By reviewing other shows of the time, it will give a sense of what was unusual or unique about Blake's exhibition, and why, perhaps, it was such a critical disaster.

05-06-2009 The Story of London: Chris Orr on The Life of W Blake

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:41:15 +0100

Hear Chris Orr talk about his responses to the life and works of William Blake, a source of inspiration and reflection, influencing his experimentation in printmaking. Defined as 'part homage and part artistic manifesto', Orr's series The Life of W Blake (1992) can be seen alongside his recent 'Blakeian' works in the Modern Prints and Drawings Room.

05-06-2009 The Story of London: Black History in London on Film - Panel Discussion

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:34:13 +0100

Part of Late at Tate Britain, June 2009.
London's shifting culture was documented in a number of films. Director Horace Ové and film historian Professor Ian Christie will discuss the films that placed issues of racism and nationality squarely in the streets of London. Chaired by Colin Prescod.

23-05-2009 Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape Symposium - Part 3

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:43:51 +0100

How can the city be framed in images? This symposium, organised with the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London uses the lens of urban photography to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the nature of contemporary urban spaces and cultures.

23-05-2009 Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape Symposium - Part 2

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:41:27 +0100

23-05-2009 Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape Symposium - Part 1

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:25:05 +0100

03-06-2009 Conversation Pieces: Leo Asemota - Beyond Portraiture

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:56:55 +0100

In this lecture Leo Asemota explains how his practice expands traditions of portraiture through the complex layering of history, culture, memory and identity.

02-07-2009 BP Exhibition: Classified - Curator's Talk

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:39:21 +0100

How fixed is a name, how stable is meaning? Andrew Wilson, co-curator of 'Classified, contemporary British art from Tate Collection' will provide an overview of the exhibition and of the ideas behind it.

08-07-2009 From Wilderness to Wasteland

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:38:04 +0100

This discussion, featuring artists Tania Kovats and Lara Almarcegui, as well as art historian Dr. Alistair Rider, explores these ideas and asks how contemporary art practice reconfigures and imagines landscape and an experience of the natural world.s

09-07-2009 Richard Long: English Modernist or International conceptualist?

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:35:52 +0100

In this lunchtime lecture John Haldane, philosopher and art writer, will discuss the artist's career in relation to conceptual art and also explore the resonances with English modernism as represented by Paul Nash, Eric Ravillious and others.

17-07-2009 Joy Sleeman on Richard Long

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:33:20 +0100

This lecture explores Long's work in the context of a time of epic explorations of space and in connection with the emergence of new forms of landscape art, as well as tracing some journeys closer to home.

27-06-2009 Futurism and the Avant-Garde Study Day - Part 3

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:31:43 +0100

This symposium explores the controversial status of Futurist movements in art history, and some of their 'avant-garde' practices. Speakers engage with various forms of Futurist art, performance and film, including the use of manifestos and demonstrations.

27-06-2009 Futurism and the Avant-Garde Study Day - Part 2

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:31:12 +0100

27-06-2009 Futurism and the Avant-Garde Study Day - Part 1

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:30:22 +0100

23-06-2009 The Hanging of a Rebel: The Life of CRW Nevinson

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:51:21 +0100

History remembers CRW Nevinson as England's only Futurist: a young rebel who worked closely with Severini and Marinetti, and unintentionally caused a schism in London's avant-garde. This lecture by Michael K. Walsh, and the accompanying Hanging a Rebel: The Life of CRW Nevinson, tells the story of Futurism's soujourn in London, and its relationship with the nation's only disciple.

22-06-2009 Architecture+Art: Crossover and Collaboration - Elmgreen & Dragset and Jamie Fobert

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:50:05 +0100

Elmgreen and Dragset's close and playful relationship with architecture is underscored by the site-specific environments they often create for exhibitions, particularly their Powerless Structures series of installations. They will be joined in conversation by Jamie Fobert, an architect whose experience in gallery design, from the Melnikov bus depot through to Tate St Ives' extension, will ensure an evening of lively debate on designing and inhabiting spaces for art.

20-06-2009 Shortness: A very short conference and a very long dinner - Part 2

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:48:54 +0100

In short, this event brings together practitioners and theoreticians of the humanities, arts and sciences to extol or berate, to discuss, explore and explain shortness in all its spatial and temporal manifestations.

20-06-2009 Shortness: A very short conference and a very long dinner - Part 1

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:48:31 +0100

15-06-2009 Architecture+Art: Crossover and Collaboration - Teddy Cruz and Pedro Reyes

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:47:06 +0100

Teddy Cruz and Pedro Reyes have a history of collaboration that extends back several years, including the 'Conflict Resolution' exhibition for the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Their shared investigations into design strategies for social transformation in globalised times propose a new synthesis for art and architecture.

11-06-2009 Architecture+Art: Crossover and Collaboration - Steven Holl and Vito Acconci

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:42:02 +0100

Stephen Holl and Vito Acconci's collaboration on the façade of New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture set an important precedent for agendas of hybrid practice and collaboration, in line with Storefront's own programme as a gallery.

06-06-2009 Pipilotti Rist: Talking Art

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:40:44 +0100

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist first burst onto the British art scene with her video installation, Sip My Ocean, shown at the Chisenhale Gallery in London in 1996. She went on to win the Premio 2000 prize at the 1997 Venice Biennale for the deliciously subversive two-screen video, Ever is Over All, in which a beautiful young woman strolls down a Zurich street casually smashing the windows of parked cars, all the while observed by a smiling policewoman.

She is interviewed by Art Monthly editor Patricia Bickers.

23-05-2009 UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 Skate the Sky: Films by Jennifer West - Introduction and Q&A

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:39:14 +0100

os Angeles-based artist Jennifer West will create a new film live in the gallery by uniting an unlikely mix of ink, film strips and skate-boarding. In this unique event, titled Skate the Sky Melon Grab Film, West will build on her previous experiments with everyday materials such as pepper spray or Axe body cologne used to physically manipulate celluloid.

25-05-2009 UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 Italian Experimental Films from the 1960s and 70s Dissonant Dandy: Luigi Ontani - Intro and Q&A

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:37:04 +0100

Luigi Ontani came to prominence in Italy and internationally during the late 1960s and 70s with a series of performances and exhibitions. His dandy persona was deployed to re-enact a series of 'tableaux vivants' from folklore, fairy tales, mythology, art and history.

04-04-2009 Polish New Wave: Andrzej Żuławski - On the Silver Globe - Intro and Q&A

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:31:50 +0100

One of the earliest cosmic odysseys and science fiction superproductions, the film begins and ends with off-screen commentary by Żuławski on the failure of the film's twelve-year-long production, left unfinished due to bureaucratic intervention. The film's self-referential commentary, amazing costumes, hysterical and ecstatic cinematography and montage, and unforgettable performances, are all typical of Żuławski's unique and shamanic film language.

Introduced by Andrzej Żuławski and followed by Q&A.

15-05-2009 Conversation Pieces: Nada Prlja - Return of the Red Bourgeoisie

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:33:41 +0100

Growing up in socialist Yugoslavia (Macedonia), artist Nada Prlja's art historical education was illustrated by crude black and white reproductions and photocopies of many works from the Tate Collection. In this talk and gallery visit, Prlja, an artist who works with complex ideas of re-appropriation, re-visits the Tate Collection through her memories of growing up as part of the 'red bourgeoisie'.

15-05-2009 Contemporary Painting and History Symposium

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:32:09 +0100

Contemporary painting is the subject of this symposium. How can artists find inspiration from modernist history and the more recent past? In what ways is contemporary painting negotiating the boundaries of its discipline? And what is contemporary painting's attitude to theory, and through this, its attempts to remain critical? Leading artists and theorists including Jan Verwoert (keynote), Katharina Grosse, Pia Fries, Barry Schwabsky, Peter McDonald, Tony Godfrey, Alison Green, Peter Davies, David Ryan (keynote), John Wilkins and Daniel Sturgis discuss all these issues.

08-05-2009 John Peacock: What Makes an Aristocrat?

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:30:56 +0100

Van Dyck's portraits of nobility appear to represent their sitters as superior beings, 'naturally' entitled to the pre-eminence which they enjoyed. This entitlement, through lineage or genetic inheritance, was vigorously questioned during the sixteenth century. John Peacock, author of 'The Look of Van Dyck' and Visiting Fellow at Southampton University, takes a closer look at his portraits to argue that they may see him responding to these debates, rather than simply depicting a 'naturally' superior aristocratic class.

02-04-2009 Altermodern Manifesto: Non-Static Art in Static Display

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:28:15 +0100

Nicolas Bourriaud describes a 'new type of form … a wandering, rather than a fixed space-time', which is mirrored by the current emphasis on online content for museums and galleries. Miltos Manetas, founder of the online art movement Neen, discusses the possibility and place for non-static, non-spatial art with Sam Thorne, online editor of Frieze.

18-04-2009 Civilisation: The Value of Art

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:26:09 +0100

This discussion will be deconstructing artistic value forty years since Lord Clark’s Civilisation. Clark assumes a connoisseur model of valuing art which contrasts with the subjective altermodern approach to appreciating art. What role if any is there for aesthetic expertise? Is the altermodern a more democratic stance than connoisseurship?

23-04-2009 Conversation Pieces: Maria Kheirkhah - The Anatomy of Ignorance. Part III 1001 Questions

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:24:56 +0100

Maria Kheirkhah is an artist who works with installation and performance to investigate systems of knowledge, power and culture. In this screening and performance she will be discussing issues around the relationship between artists, artworks and audiences within specific institutional and cultural contexts.

24-04-2009 Altermodern Manifesto: The Great Exhibition with Yara El Sherbini

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:23:55 +0100

The Altermodern Manifesto suggests that today's artists are responding to a 'new globalised perception', moving away from art generated by personal cultural identity. Yara El-Sherbini, an artist associated with LADA, uses popular culture and humour as a site through which to playfully explore these shifting territories of contemporary art practice. During this lunchtime lecture El-Sherbini will host an extracted version of a live art piece based on the quintessentially British pub quiz format, showing that an artist's practice can be rooted in individual origins whilst engaging with a plurality of cultural influences.

30-04-2009 'A Carelesse Romance': Fashion and Fantasy in van Dyck's Portraits of the English Court

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:20:36 +0100

As court painter, Anthony van Dyck was largely responsible for creating the glamorous image that surrounds the court of King Charles I. Aileen Ribeiro, Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art and specialist in the history of dress, discusses the ways in which van Dyck used fashion and fantasy to evoke a mythical romantic world.

06-03-2009 Late at Tate Britain March 2009: Framing Reality

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:19:31 +0100

This panel discussion seeks to explore global perspectives on artists' increasing involvement with the documentary form. Professor Mark Nash (Royal College of Art) and artists Lamia Joreige (Lebanon) and Oraib Toukan (Jordan) discuss notions of artistic agency as one in which the artist crosses back and forth between the domains of reality and fiction in a global context.

09-03-2009 Conversation Pieces: Raimi Gbadamosi - Race, Power and Language

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:18:28 +0100

Artist and theorist Raimi Gbadamosi challenges the way art objects relate to the viewer particularly in relation to questions of race, language and power. In this talk and gallery tour, Dr Gbadamosi asks crucial questions of the Tate Collection in relation to his own practice: 'What do I do? What did they do? And what do we all do now?'.

18-03-2009 Adam Nicolson on Van Dyck

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:17:11 +0100

In collaboration with TATE ETC. Adam Nicolson will bring Van Dyck to life with a focus on his relationship with one special patron: the Pembrokes of Wilton House. Drawing on his latest book Earls of Paradise, Nicolson will be using examples of Van Dyck's portraiture to provide a rich 'evocation of an England on the hinge of medieval and modern'.

20-03-2009 Biennials and Triennials: How, Why and Who For?

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:15:07 +0100

The recent boom in triennials and biennials has been noted by critics and artists alike. Lewis Biggs, Director of the Liverpool Biennial and former Director of Tate Liverpool, assesses how successful the format is in conveying themes and theories such as Altermodern, and whether Tate Britain is an appropriate home for an international art festival.

21-03-2009 Civilisation: The Art Object

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:13:06 +0100

This debate will be examining the nature of artworks and discussing the changing nature of appreciation. Moving from the quality of the materials or workmanship through to contemporary emphasis upon the underlying process this discussion will analyse the role of the art object then, now and in the future.

19-04-2009 Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception - Day 3

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:10:38 +0100

Featuring lectures, discussions, performances, projections and installations, this major international conference presents a critical appraisal of an expanding field of film and video art from multi-screen, immersive, performance-based live-projections through to interactive, digital and virtual reality multi-media events.

18-04-2009 Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception - Day 2

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:09:13 +0100

17-04-2009 Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception - Day 1

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:07:21 +0100

15-04-2009 Margaret Tait - Introduction

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:37:15 +0100

This special programme marks ten years since the death of acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait (1918-1999).

03-04-2009 Creative Brains

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:28:59 +0100

Where does our creativity come from? What makes a great artist? At this free event, Professors Semir Zeki and Ray Tallis talk about creativity and the brain.

26-03-2009 Anthony van Dyck: The Image of the Aristocrat - Day 2

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:22:05 +0100

Tate Britain's reputation for shedding new light on historic art continues with Van Dyck and Britain, the major exhibition surveying Anthony van Dyck's work in England. At this two-day symposium, the exhibition's curator Karen Hearn is joined by world-renowned scholars and curators to present new thinking and research on van Dyck's work. We'll consider his impact on and legacy in British art and culture, the identity he created for the aristocracy and representations of courts in other cultures.

26-03-2009 Anthony van Dyck: The Image of the Aristocrat - Day 1

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:21:07 +0100

21-03-2009 Animation Breakdown: WAX, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees - Introduction and Q&A

Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:53 +0100

With an emphasis on practice, and the artist's perspective, the day will embrace an eclectic range of approaches, and ask how digital and hybrid technologies are influencing artists and their work.
In the three panels - chaired by leading curators - artists from the UK, Senegal and the USA present and discuss their work.

21-03-2009 Animation Breakdown Study Day - Part 4

Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:07 +0100

21-03-2009 Animation Breakdown Study Day - Part 3

Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:41 +0100

21-03-2009 Animation Breakdown Study Day - Part 2

Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:10 +0100

21-03-2009 Animation Breakdown Study Day - Part 1

Thu, 14 May 2009 15:49:44 +0100

26-02-2009 Collaborative Research: New Knowledge and New Challenges

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:28:40 +0100

Knowledge transfer and interdisciplinarity are increasingly required to access research funding. But how does collaboration between academia, the private and public sector, involving diverse institutions and disciplines, work in practice? Does it really generate new kinds of knowledge and break down old boundaries? And in what ways does it benefit the wider public?
Under the chair of Prof. Nigel Llewellyn, Head of Research at Tate, researchers and practitioners will shed new light on this ongoing debate with reference to recent research schemes.

14-03-2009 Global Modernities - Part 3

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:25:30 +0100

At the dawn of the twenty first century there is a growing consensus among artists, thinkers and critics that Western modernity is in the process of dissolution. Eurocentric, national, state-centered perspectives in art, culture and politics have been challenged at a fundamental level by previously marginal practices and forces: post-colonialism, feminism, postmodernism.
Yet these narratives are themselves under strain as new configurations of political-economic crisis and global war stretch the boundaries of the global order. New, little understood forms of modernity are emerging that are fundamentally reshaping the way we make art, politics, culture and economics globally. This symposium will critically map this emerging landscape in the light of crucial questions posed in the Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 exhibition.

14-03-2009 Global Modernities - Part 2

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:23:31 +0100

14-03-2009 Global Modernities - Part 1

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:22:50 +0100

12-03-2009 The Status of Difference: Thelma Golden - Post-Black Art Now

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:17:55 +0100

In the late 1990s curator and writer Thelma Golden coined the controversial term 'post-black art' with friend and artist Glenn Ligon to refer to a post-civil rights generation of African-American artists whose work she believed could no longer be defined in terms of 'race'. In this lecture and discussion, Golden reflects on the status of the term 'post-black art' in the context of debates about the globalisation of the art of the African diaspora and current notions of cultural difference.

03-04-2009 Exhibitions and the World at Large - Part 1

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:13:46 +0100

This Symposium examines the contemporary art exhibition in a global context by considering three case studies from 1989, a pivotal year for both art and politics: 'Magiciens de la Terre' at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 'The Other Story' at the Hayward Gallery, London, and the third Bienal de La Habana. The event will open with a keynote speech by Sarat Maharaj, and the other speakers will include Thomas Boutoux, Sonya Boyce, Jean Fisher, Cuauhtemoc Medina and Gerardo Mosquera.

The talk by Sarat Maharaj is removed until November 2009 for copyright reasons.

03-04-2009 Exhibitions and the World at Large - Part 2

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:14:58 +0100

03-04-2009 Exhibitions and the World at Large - Part 3

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:14:58 +0100

28-11-2008 The Pleasure and Persuasion of Lens-Based Media

Thu, 14 May 2009 11:35:33 +0100

The research group Curating Video invite nine speakers from the fields of visual arts, art history, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies to explore a new matrix of issues that have become crucial to the understanding of the affect of mediated images in our lives. Rethinking the power of fact that images generate, this conference seeks to put forth new dialogues, strategies and propositions to explore what is now at stake for a politics of the mediated image.

28-03-2009 Constructivism and the Art of Everyday Life - Part 3

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:04:34 +0100

This study day explores some of the issues raised by the Rodchenko and Popova exhibition, including the relationship between art and every day life in post-war Russian constructivist art. Contributors investigate the languages of 'construction' and the move from abstraction in art to social forms in every day life, architecture, theatre, product and graphic design.

28-03-2009 Constructivism and the Art of Everyday Life - Part 2

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:04:11 +0100

28-03-2009 Constructivism and the Art of Everyday Life - Part 1

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:03:45 +0100

06-12-2008 Christian Boltanski: Talking Art

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:36:05 +0100

French artist Christian Boltanski thinks of himself as a painter but is best known for his photographic installations. A photographer who often re-photographs found images, including family snapshots, he associates photography with death and describes himself as a cadaver merchant.

25-03-2009 BP Artist Talk: Hew Locke

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:29:24 +0100

Hew Locke is fascinated by the visual projections of power, both politically in the symbols of nationhood selected by countries, and personally by the public faces projected by individuals with or seeking power. In this evening talk Locke discusses influences such as architecture, popular culture and exoticism.

07-03-2009 Lorna Simpson: Talking Art

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:09:58 +0000

New York based African-American artist Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s with challenging work that dealt with issues surrounding race, gender and sex. Lorna Simpson is interviewed by writer Alison Green.

27-02-2009 Van Dyck and Britain: Curator's Talk

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:06:17 +0000

Karen Hearn, Curator of Van Dyck and Britain, discusses an artist who transformed 17th century portraiture and shaped today's view of the Stuart Monarchy.

25-02-2009 Roni Horn in Conversation

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:30:44 +0000

In light of her current exhibition at Tate Modern, Roni Horn discusses her practise with curator and Art Angel co-director James Lingwood and art historian Briony Fer, chaired by Tate Curator Mark Godfrey.

21-02-2009 Civilisation: The Nature of Creativity

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:28:49 +0000

This discussion will explore the nature of creativity and role of genius at a timely moment: it is the 40th anniversary of Lord Clark's Civilisation and the Tate Triennial.

20-02-2009 Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 - Curator's Talk

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:25:59 +0000

Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Curator of Contemporary British art at Tate Britain, discusses the myriad of interconnecting themes manifest in Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009.

14-02-2009 Zones of Conflict: Transnational Communities

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:23:18 +0000

This event will consider how socially-engaged art practices have confronted globalisation's stateless subjects and transnational social relations. With John Akomfrah, Ayreen Asastas and Rene Gabri, Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera, Nina Montmann, Anand Patwardhan, Emma Ridgeway and Pooja Sood, moderated by TJ Demos.

19-02-2009 Britishistory: Talk it Up!

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:19:51 +0000

This informal debate with artists, including Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey, is a chance for you to say what you think about issues of multiculturalism and globalization in relation to visual culture in Britain today.

13-02-2009 Zones of Conflict: War & Peace/Jang Aur Aman - Q&A

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:19:49 +0000

Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA following nuclear tests in the Indian sub-continent War and Peace / Jang Aur Aman is a documentary journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war. This podcast only includes introduction to the screening and the Q&A session.

06-02-2009 Sublime Environments - The Sublime and Beyond

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:16:29 +0000

Siobhan Davies, Ian McEwan, David Buckland, and Dr Philip Shaw discuss their experiences of the cold north and their artistic and philosophical responses to the Sublime, place and climate change.

06-02-2009 Sublime Environments - Ian McEwan: New words on Climate

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:14:55 +0000

Ian McEwan reads excerpts from his new and unpublished novel. McEwan joined the Cape Farewell expedition to Svalbard in 2005 and speaks of the influence this experience had on the creation of his new novel.

06-02-2009 Sublime Environments - Art and Climate Change

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:12:17 +0000

Artoonist Michèle Noach, writer Ruth Little, Architect and President of RIBA Sunand Prasad in conversation about their own artistic practice and the many and various ways artists around the world are approaching environmental sustainability.

02-12-2008 BP Artist Talk: David Shrigley

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:43:10 +0000

Known for his witty and incisive observations of the everyday David Shigley's work captures both the dark and light of the human spirit. Combining text and image Shrigley presents us with a view of the world addressing the banal to the surreal.

05-02-2009 Conversation Pieces: Susan Stockwell

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:35:49 +0000

Susan Stockwell is a sculptor whose art is primarily concerned with the transformation of everyday materials such as paper, rubber, cardboard, computer components, tea bags and coffee. In this talk and gallery visit she explores how themes in her work such as trade, mapping, recycling and re-appropriation are relevant to key works in the collection.

04-02-2009 The Status of Difference: The Otolith Group

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:34:06 +0000

Founded in 2000 by artist Anjalika Sagar and artist, writer and theorist Kodwo Eshun, The Otolith Group's artistic work rethinks various archives of futurity through moving image, sound, text and curatorial practice.

10-12-2008 Maggi Hambling, Jenny Saville and Nigel Cooke on Bacon

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:23:18 +0000

As Francis Bacon's influence and legacy fall under the spotlight with Tate Britain's major retrospective, this evening discussion, chaired by Tim Marlow, asks Maggi Hambling, Jenny Saville and Nigel Cooke to share their views and relationship to the painter. They offer an artists perspective into what makes Bacon "One of the greatest painters of all time"

12-03-2009 Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Artist's Talk

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:17:14 +0000

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster discusses topics that have informed her work to date, particularly her commissioned installation TH.2058 for the Turbine Hall with writer, curator and editor, Pablo Leon de la Barra. Their conversation refers to home cinemas, tropical modernities, dystopian architectures and futurist turbines.

24-01-2009 Undoing the Aesthetic Image - Part 3

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:15:01 +0000

The history of art is inextricably tied up with the history of the image. Critical debates about contemporary art involve different concepts of and questions about the image. Is it possible to liberate the image from the theological shadow of the icon? Can the 'aesthetic image' be brought back from aestheticism to what Jacques Rancière calls 'the political stakes of a montage of the sensible'? Or must aesthetics be thought anew in the hyper-present of contemporary art?

24-01-2009 Undoing the Aesthetic Image - Part 2

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:14:12 +0000

24-01-2009 Undoing the Aesthetic Image - Part 1

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:13:31 +0000

10-12-2008 Conversation Pieces: Ingrid Pollard on Landscape

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:30:41 +0000

In this artist presentation followed by a gallery tour, Pollard will reflect on her artistic practice 'in conversation' with some key landscape works from Tate Britain's collection displays.

17-01-2009 Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 4: Borders - Altermodern Panel Discussion

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:20:30 +0000

Continuing the ongoing debate around the Altermodern theory, a group of invited guests, previous Prologue contributors and exhibiting artists will discuss the themes and ideas that surround the fourth Tate Triennial. Lead by Nicolas Bourriaud, the panel will include Tom Morton, JJ Charlesworth, Matt Darbyshire TJ Demos and Bob and Roberta Smith.

17-11-2008 Exhibitionism: Sir Roland Penrose Memorial Lecture

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:22:13 +0000

Bruce Altshuler discusses some of the many roles played by art exhibitions in the history of modern culture. These include the introduction of the museum as an educational enterprise, the presentation of new forms of artworks to the public, and varying political uses to which exhibitions have been put.

23-01-2009 Contemporary Art in the Middle East: The Politics of Space

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:30:07 +0000

This two-day event, which begins at Tate Britain and concludes at Tate Modern, brings together artists, curators and writers to discuss recent developments in contemporary art from the Middle East and its diaspora.

23-01-2009 Contemporary Art in the Middle East: Tradition and Modernity

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:29:19 +0000

23-01-2009 Contemporary Art in the Middle East: Art Now: Recent Exhibitions

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:32:10 +0000

24-01-2009 Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question - Part 1

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:36:44 +0000

Fifty years ago a lecture by C.P. Snow on 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution', deploring the gulf between artistic intellectuals and natural scientists, sparked a fierce debate about the 'Two Cultures'. Joining with the Science Museum, Tate Modern invites leading figures from the worlds of arts, science and public policy to revisit this question.

24-01-2009 Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question - Part 2

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:37:16 +0000

14-02-2009 Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism - Part 1

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:40:32 +0000

This short symposium explores the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova between 1917 and 1929. Arguably two of the Russian avant-garde's most influential and important artists, they were integral to the stylistic and theoretical underpinning of Russian Constructivism.

14-02-2009 Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism - Part 2

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:41:46 +0000

02-11-2008 UBS Openings: Saturday Live. Sturtevant: Modes of Thought

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:42:52 +0000

In addition to Spinoza in Las Vegas, UBS Openings: Saturday Live presents Modes of Thought, a lecture by Sturtevant, whose rich and complex practice goes back to the early 1960s.

29-11-2008 Zones of Conflict: Sovereignty and Bare Life

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:43:42 +0000

Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art During Global Crisis considers how recent geopolitical crises have impacted visual culture and artistic practice. As the global phenomenon of transmigration has grown to unprecedented proportions in recent years, the representation of the displaced has become an urgent subject of interdisciplinary examination.

11-12-2008 Embodiment: Body, Mind and Medicine

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:12:36 +0000

This event is part of the PERFORMING MEDICINE season.
Is there a rift between mind and body in western medicine? Celebrated neuroscientist and best selling author Antonio Damasio explodes dualistic ideas about intelligence and emotion, creativity and rationality, feelings and facts, arts and science, and investigates how contemporary neurology may enrich our understanding of how our bodies function and communicate with each other.

22-01-2009 Contempary Art in the Middle East: Part 3

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:18:24 +0000

22-01-2009 Contempary Art in the Middle East: Part 2

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:18:16 +0000

22-01-2009 Contempary Art in the Middle East: Part 1

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:18:08 +0000

29-11-2008 Folie à Deux: Bacon and Deleuze - Part 3

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:13:50 +0000

Francis Bacon's isolated figures and distorted faces were analysed by Gilles Deleuze and from this he developed a series of philosophical concepts that have produced some of the most creative and challenging approaches to painting and aesthetics. Dr Simon O'Sullivan, Dr Darren Ambrose, Margarita Gluzberg and Andrew Conio discuss how this entanglement has fashioned new ways of understanding painting and writing, producing ideas that have had an impact far beyond the domains of aesthetics and philosophy

29-11-2008 Folie à Deux: Bacon and Deleuze - Part 2

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:13:03 +0000

29-11-2008 Folie à Deux: Bacon and Deleuze - Part 1

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:12:05 +0000

21-11-2008 Close Encounters of the Animal Kind - Part 3

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:07:58 +0000

This interdisciplinary conference explores the contemporary processes of subject formation through encounters with non-human 'otherness'. Though the focus of the conference will be on animals, the becoming-animal, the emphasis will be placed on art practices and on vital politics. The leading question is: what kind of interfaces, encounters, and practices might emerge from the human-animal assemblage?

21-11-2008 Close Encounters of the Animal Kind - Part 2

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:38:56 +0000

21-11-2008 Close Encounters of the Animal Kind - Part 1

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:36:46 +0000

20-11-2008 Bacon's London

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:33:10 +0000

The exhibition's co-curator, Chris Stephens and Tate archivist Adrian Glew, examine letters, photographs and other original archive material to learn more about Bacon and his life in the City.

18-11-2008 Turner Prize Artist Talk: Mark Leckey

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:29:51 +0000

With wit and originality Mark Leckey combines sculpture, film, sound and performance to communicate his fascination with underground music and club culture. Leckey is nominated for the Turner Prize this year, and he discusses his work and his relationship with contemporary British culture.

14-11-2008 Richard Cork on Francis Bacon

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:26:05 +0000

Join critic and writer Richard Cork for a personal recollection of his experience of Francis Bacon, and learn of his astonishment when he discovered that the man who had created those pictures, with their violent and obsessive emphasis on screaming or struggling figures, was in reality so warm, communicative and hospitable.

14-11-2008 Michael Peppiatt: The Sacred and the Profane

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:20:01 +0000

Michael Peppiatt, a renowned Bacon scholar, friend of the artist and author of the definitive account of his life and work, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, is discussing what he believes to be a paradox at the heart of Bacons work - as an outspoken atheist, why was Bacon obsessively drawn to the highly charged symbols of the Christian faith, namely the Crucifixion and the Pope as well as to the great classical myths?

12-11-2008 Turner Prize 2008: Fiona Bradley

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:17:14 +0000

Love it or hate it, the Turner Prize gets everyone talking. At this event Fiona Bradley, Director of Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery, introduces the work of the 2008 nominees. As a former Turner Prize judge, Bradley gives us a personal insight into the workings of the prestigious Prize.

12-11-2008 The Status of Difference: Entangled Modernities - Part 4

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:13:15 +0000

How do cross-cultural perspectives modify the standard picture of twentieth-century art? Writer and critic Kobena Mercer discusses this, and presents ‘difference’ as a question of mutual entanglements among multiple modernisms that expands our understanding of the worldly conditions in which art circulates across space and time.

12-11-2008 The Status of Difference: Entangled Modernities - Part 3

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:12:07 +0000

12-11-2008 The Status of Difference: Entangled Modernities - Part 2

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:11:31 +0000

12-11-2008 The Status of Difference: Entangled Modernities - Part 1

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:10:35 +0000

07-11-2008 Late at Tate November: Behind the scenes. Power: Richard Thomas

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:58:17 +0000

Join Tate's artist-educator Richard Thomas for a tour and candid discussion on the power behind the early art markets through works such as Hogarth's O the Roast Beef of Old England.

07-11-2008 Late at Tate November: Behind the scenes. Insider: Nivek Amichund

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:56:42 +0000

Inspired by the recently opened Cecil Collins display in Room 8, Nivek Amichund, both a visitor services assistant and a member of Tate Forum, Tate's youth advisory panel, gives his view on the works from his unique insider's position.

07-11-2008 Late at Tate November: Behind the scenes. Money: Louisa Buck

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:54:00 +0000

After record-breaking sales of Damien Hirst and Francis Bacon hear a timely discussion on the credit crunch and the art market from the Art Newspaper's Louisa Buck.

07-11-2008 Late at Tate November: Behind the scenes. Outsider: Leon Wainwright

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:51:56 +0000

Art Historian Leon Wainwright is talking around the idea of the 'authentic outsider' and how Kitaj and Hockney - in their different ways - communicated Britishness and notions of otherness in the age of Pop.

07-11-2008 Late at Tate November: Behind the scenes. Sight: Gillian Cutbill

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:50:12 +0000

Gillian Cutbill, a Tate guide who presents audio descriptions for blind and partially sighted visitors, is describing Freud's Standing by the Rags for the Late at Tate audience and discussing the principals of audio description.

16-11-2008 An Arabesque for Marie Menken: Geographies

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:45:46 +0000

Along with her husband the poet Willard Maas, Menken was a founding member of the Gryphon Film Group. A selection of their rarely seen work includes Maas' lyrical film Geography of the Body, filmed by Menken, and Boultenhouse's mythical Dionysus. The screening will be introduced by Thomas Beard, editor of 'Cinematograph 7—Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader' (San Francisco Cinematheque, 2008), founder and director of Light Industry, and programmer and researcher on the Gryphon Group.

15-11-2008 An Arabesque for Marie Menken: Glimpses

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:42:30 +0000

Marie Menken's films are fragmentary encounters with friends, landscapes and her urban surroundings. This screening is introduced by Melissa Ragona, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Critical Theory at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and authour of 'Swing and Sway: Marie Menken's Cinematic Events' (in Women Experimental Filmmakers, Duke University Press, 2007). A conversation between Ragona and curator Lucy Reynolds followed the screening.

23-10-2008 Francis Bacon: Invisible Histories - Part 4

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:25:52 +0000

Since Francis Bacon died in 1992 his reputation increases in stature and his paintings continue to break auction house records. But what is the state of Bacon scholarship and what do we know of Bacon's practice now in the light of new information revealed in his studio and archive? What new knowledge of his working process has conservation research revealed? This conference brings together curators, critics and academics to discuss Bacon the artist, his working methods and the curatorial approaches that have emerged around his work.

23-10-2008 Francis Bacon: Invisible Histories - Part 3

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:24:44 +0000

23-10-2008 Francis Bacon: Invisible Histories - Part 2

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:23:09 +0000

23-10-2008 Francis Bacon: Invisible Histories - Part 1

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:22:06 +0000

31-10-2008 Turner Prize Exhibition Talk: Dan Fox

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:19:18 +0000

The Turner Prize has played a huge part in raising the profile of contemporary British art around the world. Dan Fox, filmmaker, musician and associate editor of Frieze magazine, gives an overview of Turner Prize 2008, considering the work of the four nominees and debating the status and history of the Prize.

31-10-2008 BP British Art Lecture: Andrew Marr

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:16:46 +0000

Coinciding with the publication of the Tate Britain/Yale Center for British Art three volume History of British Art, leading political columnist, writer and broadcaster, Andrew Marr considers what makes art British, and articulates his own responses to works selected from Tate's collection.

18-10-2008 Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: Carsten Höller - Kinshasa Rumba Brazzaville

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:14:04 +0000

Stemming from his recent travels in the Congo Belgian artist Carsten Höller presents a slide lecture in conversation with Gulbenkian Curator of Contemporary Art, Nicolas Bourriaud.

29-10-2008 Dead Sexy: Maggi Hambling on Francis Bacon

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:07:15 +0000

Distinguished artist Maggi Hambling talks on the life and times of Francis Bacon and his importance to contemporary art. Henrietta Moraes, queen of Soho in the 1950s, was both model and muse to Bacon then and to Hambling later. Hambling has said 'when you look at a Bacon, you are confronted by life and death simultaneously. That is the power'.

29-10-2008 The Curwen Studio: Paula Rego, Stanley Jones and Alan Powers in Conversation

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:04:17 +0000

Since 1958 the Curwen Studio has enabled artists to explore the medium of lithography. To coincide with the display in the Goodison Room celebrating the Studio's fiftieth anniversary, artist Paula Rego, Studio Co-Founder Stanley Jones and Alan Powers, author of Art and Print: The Curwen Story, reflect on the significant role and influence of the Studio.

22-10-2008 Architecture and Design in the Bacon Era: Back to the City

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:57:15 +0000

The panel, featuring eminent architectural historian Joseph Rykwert, experimental architect Nigel Coates and former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, will look at how urbanity grew to its present condition, where more than half the world’s population lives in cities.

18-10-2008 Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: John Smith - Hotel Diaries

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:51:40 +0000

Hotel Diaries is a series of video recordings made in hotel rooms around the world between 2001 and 2007, all of which relate the artist’s personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East in the 'found' film set of a hotel room. A selection of videos from the series was screened, followed by a discussion between John Smith and Tate Britain curator Andrew Wilson.

17-10-2008 Hugh Davies on Francis Bacon

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:45:10 +0000

Following the suicide of his lover George Dyer in 1971, Francis Bacon embarked on a series of paintings known as the 'Black Triptychs'. Hugh Davies, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, has described these paintings as the 'frenzied momentum of a struggle against death' and discusses them in light of his 1973 interview with Bacon.

10-10-2008 What is British Art?: A Third Text Project

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:41:20 +0000

Tate Britain symposia bring together experts and scholars to present new research or to discuss aspects of a particular exhibition or wider issues around visual culture. Symposia, sometimes with partner institutions, are a focus for new scholarship and debate within visual culture and its political or social impacts.

01-10-2008 Architecture and Design in the Bacon Era: Texture

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:29:01 +0000

Mark Cousins, Zaha Hadid, Tony Fretton, Patrick Hodgkinson and Joe Kerr (Chair)
New Brutalism championed materiality and a fascination with the harsh, the substantial and the rough. The discovery of ‘beauty’ in ‘ugliness’ arguably parallels Bacon’s ability to make stark images seductive, and indeed brutal, as he revelled in the texture of paint itself.

15-11-2008 Sex and Shame in the Visual Arts

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:20:07 +0000

Psychoanalysis has been used to discuss visual pleasure and the significance of the gaze in the apprehension of art. Freud suggested that visual pleasure is also related to shame, the complex, universal and painful affect that connects subjects to social relations.

The recent publication Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture brings the issue of shame into sharp focus by using psychoanalysis as a method for the analysis of visual culture. The authors will present their topics in relation to Tate's current exhibitions and displays and launch the book as a contribution to visual culture debates.

08-10-2008 Simon Schama

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:54:36 +0000

Broadcaster and author Simon Schama gives us his perspectives on Mark Rothko. 'Rothko didn’t much care to be called an abstract artist; formalism smelled altogether too much of the decorative and he evidently had bigger fish to fry, especially in The Four Seasons commission. Why did the painter who has been taken to be the exemplary modernist, reach so persistently towards the past: primordial, archaic, classical? And do the Seagram paintings constitute the monumental temple of meditation he yearned to create?'.

25-10-2008 Dennis Oppenheim

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:18:19 +0000

Dennis Oppenheim's practice includes actions, performances, installations, sculptures, film and architecture. Seminal early works include a field harvested in the form of an X, Cancelled Crop (1969), and Reading Position for Second Degree Burn (1970), a performance-based photographic diptych. In recent years he has returned to making objects and installations including The Garden for the Accused in New York City.

12-11-2008 Andres Serrano

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:54:53 +0000

Celebrated artist Andres Serrano became the centre of controversy in 1989 for Piss Christ, a graphic image that combined Catholic iconography and body fluids. The scandal that this work - alongside Mapplethorpe's homo erotic imagery - provoked, resulted in major funding cuts by the US National Endowment of the Arts.
Subsequently, Serrano developed an interesting body of work as a conceptual photographer turning his lens to disturbing issues by means of an elegant style, devoided of direct political messages.

01-10-2008 Auguste Orts

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:26:26 +0000

Auguste Orts is a Belgian artists' collective working at the crossroads of cinema, documentary, visual arts and experimental film. To coincide with an exhibition at LUX 28 this event showcases the diversity of work produced by the group. Following the screening, the artists will be in conversation with Dieter Roelstraete, curator at the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA).

27-09-2008 Rothko Panel Discussion

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:20:38 +0000

This panel discussion explores Mark Rothko's late work in the context of the 1960s, a time of historic turmoil when the practice of painting became increasingly contested. The speakers explore key issues such as series and seriality, and the existentialist endeavour of Rothko's late paintings against the rise of Pop art, minimalism and Conceptual art, offering new ways of thinking about one of the most significant artists of the last century.

11-10-2008 Landmark Exhibitions: Contemporary Art Shows Since 1968 - Day 2

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:35:27 +0000

Landmark Exhibitions: contemporary art shows since 1968 brings together world-renowned artists, critics, curators, museum directors and scholars to identify and analyse key moments in the histories of exhibitions of the last forty years. This two-day symposium argues that the exhibition, long overlooked as an epiphenomenon, is central to our understanding of contemporary visual cultures.

10-10-2008 Landmark Exhibitions: Contemporary Art Shows Since 1968 - Day 1

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:30:40 +0000

02-09-2008 Symposium: From Audio Tours to iPhones

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:48:12 +0000

Are museums ready to play in the digital age? Rapid advances in technology are making the traditional audiotour increasingly redundant, and visitors are now offered sophisticated multimedia tours on PDAs, iPods and even mobile phones. This symposium is for museum workers who want to know more about how the new generation of mobile devices can benefit their institutions. International museum professionals with in-depth experience in handheld program design, development and evaluation lead the day’s discussions.

15-08-2008 Street Art Talks - Graffiti: Utopia or a bit boring?

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:11:51 +0000

The debate starts here: is street art glorified vandalism or a legitimate cultural movement? Evening Standard art critic Ben Lewis argues that graffiti is a bit boring really, while writer and critic Ossian Ward defends the genre. Come along and decide where you stand.

08-08-2008 Street Art Talks - Street Art in Different Cities

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:48:03 +0000

Author Tristan Manco has travelled the world to find outstanding pieces of street art. At this talk he presents his favourite works from Brazil and beyond. Also writer and curator Rafael Schacter tells us about Madrid-based street artists Nano4814 and 3TTMan, whose work you can see on the Street Art walking tour.

01-08-2008 Street Art Talks - The History of Street Art

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:15:37 +0000

Street art legend Blek Le Rat tells the story of street art and talks about how New York graffiti inspired him. One of the first artists to have an impact on the European scene, he pioneered the stencil style which has influenced many, notably Banksy. Plus street artist Rough gives an insight into the underground world of graffiti in the UK.

25-07-2008 Street Art Talks - Collecting Street Art

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:13:25 +0000

Street Art and gallerist Pure Evil and art critic JJ Charlesworth discuss the various aspects of collecting street art and the pitfalls of this growing market.

18-07-2008 Street Art Talks - Street Art Now: A World View

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:11:43 +0000

The Wooster Collective is one of the most important websites for the dissemination of street art around the world. Based in New York, Marc and Sara Schiller make a rare UK appearance to give an insight into the subject and explain how they see the future of the genre evolving.

05-07-2008 Photography in the Street and Studio Part 3

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:31:20 +0100

Coinciding with Tate Modern’s major photography exhibition of the same title, this study day examines different histories of the photographic portrait, in the street and in the studio, from its early practitioners in the nineteenth century to contemporary practice.

05-07-2008 Photography in the Street and Studio Part 2

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:30:26 +0100

05-07-2008 Photography in the Street and Studio Part 1

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:29:33 +0100

05-09-2008 - Katie Guggenheim Recordings - Jackson Pollock

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:34:46 +0100

Working with six actors and using published interviews as scripts, artist Katie Guggenheim re-staged conversations with some of the twentieth century's most revered artists.

05-09-2008 - Katie Guggenheim Recordings - Joseph Beuys

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:36:10 +0100

Working with six actors and using published interviews as scripts, artist Katie Guggenheim re-staged conversations with some of the twentieth century's most revered artists.

05-09-2008 - Katie Guggenheim Recordings - Andy Warhol

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:35:29 +0100

Working with six actors and using published interviews as scripts, artist Katie Guggenheim re-staged conversations with some of the twentieth century's most revered artists.

17-11-2007 Take a Deep Breath Part 2

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:25:17 +0100

Take a Deep Breath is a three-day interdisciplinary symposium that takes a fresh look at the cultural, social and scientific meanings of breathing.The symposium explores contemporary ways of thinking about breathing and encourages dialogue between distinguished international participants from a wide range of disciplines by featuring talks, visual art projects, performances, film screenings, and musical events.

17-11-2007 Take a Deep Breath Part 1

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:24:05 +0100

16-11-2007 Take a Deep Breath Part 2

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:22:25 +0100

16-11-2007 Take a Deep Breath Part 1

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:21:29 +0100

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Faisal Abduallah

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:21:45 +0100

Join artist Faisal Abdu'Allah as he discusses ways in which contemporary art can challenge preconceived ideas. Drawing on his own work as well as the Nahnou Together project, he will explore how the displays challenge the familiar presentation of 'the Middle East' in the media.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Toby Treves

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:25:07 +0100

Art historian Toby Treves discusses the two Paolozzi sculptures Cyclops (1957) and their brutal anti-aesthetic in this room of work by the Independent Group with reference to Return of the Gods, on display in the Duveens.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Colin Cruise

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:20:40 +0100

Colin Cruise teaches art history at the School of Art, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and tonight will be discussing the painting The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (1881-1898).

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Michael Archer

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:23:28 +0100

Michael Archer, critic and writer (Art Monthly, Artforum), writes mainly on art since 1960. Tonight he will be discussing the work by Lucas, Warren, Linder and Mackie contained in the room Love me Tender and how this aesthetic resonates within the art world and beyond.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Chris Stevens

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:19:46 +0100

Chris Stephens, curator of modern British art and head of displays at Tate Britain will be discussing the aesthetics of one of the most important artists in post war Britain.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Jo Melvin

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:22:41 +0100

Senior lecturer at Chelsea School of art, Jo Melvin is an expert on the work of Studio International and will be talking in this newly opened display on the impact of this group.

27-05-2008 Late At Tate: Brian Dillon

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:18:48 +0100

Writer and critic Brian Dillon is UK editor of Cabinet Magazine, and author of the memoir In the Dark Room, and will be discussing the work of Tacita Dean on display in Drawn from the Collection.

28-06-2008 Flavia Muller Medeiros & Nasrin Tabatabai Part 2

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:07:17 +0100

As a prologue within a prologue, Flávia Müller Medeiros invited artist Nasrin Tabatabai for a discussion during which they take two of their previous works as the starting point to question and reflect on notions of exile.

28-06-2008 Flavia Muller Medeiros & Nasrin Tabatabai Part 1

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:07:07 +0100

28-06-2008 TJ Demos

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:22 +0100

TJ Demos is a writer, critic and lecturer in the department of history of art at University College London. In the second critical debate around the themes of the Tate Triennial, he talked about exile and contemporary art in the context of 'Altermodern'.

28-06-2008 Friedrich Kittler: Media Matters Keynote Speech

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:44:49 +0100

One of today's foremost media theorists, Friedrich Kittler has been hailed as the 'Derrida of the digital age'. This exciting event offers a rare opportunity to hear Professor Kittler in person.

28-06-2008 Media Matters Symposium Part 3

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:50:48 +0100

This symposium brings together a range of major thinkers and practitioners in the fields of cultural theory, film and digital arts to explore our complex relationship with the technologies that surround us.

28-06-2008 Media Matters Symposium Part 2

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:50:06 +0100

28-06-2008 Media Matters Symposium Part 1

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:49:25 +0100

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 4

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:06:25 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 3

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:05:48 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 2

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:05:05 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

20-06-2008 The Liquid Page Part 1

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:04:14 +0100

The Liquid Page invites academics and artists to explore the ways in which both the book and the act of reading are being reshaped, expanded and coaxed into new directions and hybrid forms.

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 4

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:36:20 +0100

Coinciding with the major Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern, this symposium will present new research on the artist and a rare opportunity to examine work from across his career in painting, sculpture and drawing from an exciting range of perspectives.

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 3

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:35:57 +0100

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 2

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:35:24 +0100

19-06-2008 Cy Twombly Symposium Part 1

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:31:55 +0100

27-06-2008 Art of Travel Study Day Part 2

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:17:39 +0100

This study day focuses on the history and relevance of travelling and migration to artists in the age of globalisation. Drawing on the notion of the artist-traveller in the age of migration we will address crucial questions such as: how do tropes of 'travel', 'displacement' and 'migration' play out in contemporary artistic practice? In what ways are artists responding to the challenges of globalisation?

27-06-2008 Art of Travel Study Day Part 1

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:17:17 +0100

21-06-2008 Bruce Goff Symposia: Stephen Prina

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:40 +0100

American artist Stephen Prina is highly regarded for his hybrid, intricate practice, which plays with the role of the artwork within cultural and institutional networks

21-06-2008 Bruce Goff Symposia: On Bruce Goff

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:46:27 +0100

Forms and ideas Goff proposed long before the ease of digital manipulation, and his pioneering use of found materials and penchant for reflective surfaces now resonate with practices of many architects internationally

14-06-2008 Talking Art: Susan Hiller

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:31:16 +0100

Susan Hiller is renowned for making works which investigate often overlooked everyday phenomena. She employs sound, video, text and photography, often creating large-scale installations. Hiller has been described as a feminist, a conceptualist and a para-conceptualist.

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 4

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:21:54 +0100

This is a live reading of the transcripts of eighteen Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the US military prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba between July 2004 and March 2005. This 110-page excerpt is a small fraction of the massive collection of transcripts released on the internet by the US Department of Defense from the 558 tribunals held over the nine-month period.

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:20:42 +0100

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 2

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:19:46 +0100

12-06-2008 A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064 - Part 1

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:18:09 +0100

31-05-2008 Talking Art: Cornelia Parker

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:43:29 +0100

Cornelia Parker has shot at objects, thrown them from cliffs, blown them up and rolled over them with a steam roller. Her sculptural processes have been described as ‘mimicking cartoon deaths’. Parker’s work is both dramatic and delicate, powerful and intricate – out of destruction she creates tragedy and beauty. Cornelia Parker is interviewed by writer and curator Lisa LeFeuvre.

29-05-2008 David Goldblatt

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:27:39 +0100

To coincide with his current exhibition at Haunch of Venison Gallery renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt discusses his work with curator and art historian Tamar Garb.

21-05-2008 Robert Storr in Conversation with David A Bailey

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:26:02 +0100

In this first London event of the International Curators Forum, an institution which aims to animate and develop the international curatorial community, curator and artist Robert Storr and curator David A Bailey discuss the Venice Biennale. Storr reflects on his role as Commissioner in 2007 and both contemplate the Biennale’s legacy and future

02-05-2008 Late at Tate Britain: Drawing on Jarman

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:08:57 +0100

Derek Jarman (1942–94) is best known as an iconoclastic filmmaker and polemical gay activist who channeled unparalleled energy into painting, writing, gardening and all manner of cultural activity.

25-04-2008 Re-Viewing the Camden Town Group Part 2

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:53:32 +0100

As part of the programme of events organised for the Modern Painters exhibition, this is the first symposium solely dedicated to the Camden Town Group. The social and art historical contexts of the Group are examined, particularly modernity, modern environments and class. The materiality of their work is also discussed, with reference to conservation, research and market value.

25-04-2008 Re-Viewing the Camden Town Group Part 1

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:51:40 +0100

29-04-2008 The Life and Times of Edward Burra

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:16:57 +0100

dward Burra's paintings of Harlem in the 1930s captured a moment in history epitomised by Jazz and street life. Drawing on the special display in the Goodison room, this study afternoon will examine Burra's paintings of this period with talks by artist and curator David A Bailey and Professor Jane Stevenson, author of Edward Burra: Twentieth Century Eye.

16-05-2008 The Return of the Gods Study Afternoon

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:07:39 +0100

Sculptures of mythical characters by Canova, Flaxman, Deare and others were eagerly collected and exhibited by British connoisseurs. This Study afternoon will examine the ways in which neo classical sculpture was appreciated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

29-04-2008 Real Architecture Spring 2008: Farshid Moussavi/Foreign Office Architects

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:14:42 +0100

Foreign Office Architects presents the recently completed department store and Cineplex in Leicester. The store's striking facade, comprised of a double layer skin with a lace-like pattern, acts as a net curtain, both allowing and blocking views from the street. The Cineplex is a large blank volume clad in stainless steel shingles. Moussavi will discuss ornamentation and designing the building envelope.

17-04-2008 Peter Campus in conversation with Douglas Gordon

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:52:06 +0100

For this unique event Peter Campus will be in conversation with Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon and David A. Ross, formerly Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Working in photography, video, film and sculpture Douglas Gordon tempts viewers into becoming more aware of the shifting subjectivity of their perception of the world. A long-time admirer of Campus’ work, Gordon is particularly concerned with the viewer's psychological relationship with the moving image.

13-04-2008 QaA with Philippe Grandrieux

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:15:07 +0100

Philippe Grandrieux is the director of numerous documentary-essays, and two features constituting the most advanced point of contemporary cinematic research.

13-03-2008 Alfredo Jaar

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:45:11 +0100

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker based in New York. He presents his work in the context of his current exhibition at the South London Gallery, which focuses on his long-standing engagement with the socio-political realities of African countries.

07-03-2008 Michael Palin in Conversation with Tim Marlow

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:26:36 +0100

Actor, writer and traveller Michael Palin and art historian Tim Marlow discuss their continuing fascination with the Camden Town Group. They consider in particular how character, realism and a sense of place are revealed within paintings of the period, as well as in works of theatre, fiction, history and travel.

27-03-2008 The Lives and Letters of the Camden Town Group

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:31:37 +0100

This study day will explore the social and art historical context of the Camden Town Group with a lecture from Tate curator, Nicola Moorby, and an archive visit with Emily White, Tate Archive curator. In conjunction with the exhibition Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, the afternoon will present an opportunity to examine letters, photographs and other original archive material and to learn more about the Group's fascination with modern society and Edwardian London.

24-04-2008 Talking Art: Glenn Ligon

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:54:34 +0100

New York-based artist Glenn Ligon is renowned for works made in a variety of media, including sculpture, neon, drawing and painting, which explore issues around race, sexuality, identity, representation and language. Ligon is interviewed by Patricia Bickers, editor of Art Monthly.

01-04-2008 Real Architecture Spring 2008: Nick Johnson/Urban Splash

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:01:12 +0100

Urban Splash introduces New Islington, one of the developer's ambitious urban regeneration projects. Following Will Alsop's plan, the 30-acre site east of Manchester city centre comprises 1,700 new homes, a school, offices and retail and leisure spaces, built around a new canal and water park. The project includes schemes by FAT and other exciting architecture practices.

26-03-2008 Supernatural Presents... Digital Dreams - Part 1

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:35:32 +0100

While continuing to examine the development of the various forms of digital visual arts, the new series will explore the current crossover in Art, Design and Technology. We will be broadening the spectrum of speakers from the previous event to include representatives from the fields of Product Design and Games.
They will also be joined by scientists and industry heavyweights behind the software and hardware we use to visually express ourselves whose vision and understanding of the creative process ultimately allow us to explore our Digital Dreams.

26-03-2008 Supernatural Presents... Digital Dreams - Part 2

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:36:00 +0100

12-04-2008 Metropolis and Modernity: Modern Painters Study Day

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:18:34 +0100

To coincide with Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, this study day examines the Camden Town Group in the context of other early twentieth century artistic movements in relation to literary and other discourses on urban experience, modernity, Britishness, class and gender. Invited speakers include Alan Munton, Bernard Vere and Alexandra Warwick.

15-03-2008 Modern Painters: Creative Writing Workshop

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:27:43 +0100

This two day creative writing course takes the paintings of the Camden Town Group as inspiration. Themes of modernity and change are considered alongside responses to technology, the growth of popular entertainment and the long shadow of the First World War.

08-04-2008 Real Architecture Spring 2008: Jacques Herzog

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:38:35 +0100

Herzog & de Meuron, architects of Tate Modern, present the National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. With an almost circular footprint, the bowl-like stadium, which seats 91,000, containing a network of bars, restaurants, hotels and shops, is expected to become a vital, urban space with a future beyond the Olympics.

03-04-2008 Association of Art Historians Annual Conference - Jeremy Deller

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:55:07 +0100

As a student of art history, a practising artist working both within and outside of the confines of the museum, and an exhibition curator, Deller will present his personal reflections on the different experiences he has encountered in his negotiation of the museum, the academy and the studio.

29-03-2008 Talking Art: Gustav Metzger

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:42:43 +0100

After a career spanning decades, Gustav Metzger is now in greater demand than ever, generating new projects as for Münster Sculpture Projects 2007 or realising earlier ideas, as with Project Stockholm, originally conceived in 1972 for the UN Environmental Conference in Stockholm. Now produced for the Sharjah Biennale (2007), the huge installation consists of 120 cars that discharge their exhaust fumes into a plastic structure.
For Talking Art, Gustav Metzger is interviewed by Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate.

14-03-2008 Modernity in Conflict - Michael Nath

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:54:45 +0000

Michael Nath, Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Westminster, examines the contribution of Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticist movement to the formation of avant-garde artistic practice and metropolitan culture in early twentieth-century Britain.

12-03-2008 Tobias Hill

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:24:47 +0000

Poet and novelist Tobias Hill reads a selection of his poems from Zoo and Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow exploring Camden’s flora and fauna human or otherwise

08-03-2008 Knowing Art: Aesthetics and Evaluating Art - Matthew Kieran

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:49:38 +0000

It seems as if 'taste' is something over which there can’t be much argument. However, art appreciation carries on as if there are meaningful disputes. Works are deemed better than others and we seek to justify claims. How is such knowledge possible? Is it feasible to appreciate a work of art properly? How can our artistic evaluations be justified? This study day, one of a series of six, introduces historical and philosophical material to help develop individual critical understandings of art appreciation.

12-03-2008 BP British Art Lecture: Stephen Poliakoff in Conversation with Brian Dillon

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:45:22 +0000

BAFTA winning British playwright and television dramatist, Stephen Poliakoff CBE, discusses his work in conversation with writer and critic, Brian Dillon. As Poliakoff has said, "I'm very anti the social-realist tradition because I don't think the world looks like that. Dickens was right. The world is full of originals. My work is vividly coloured because that's how I see the world” and tonight he discusses his ideas and thoughts on the relationship between image-making, memory, nostalgia, and place.

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 4

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:22 +0000

Join Grayson Perry, Richard Wentworth, Iwona Blazwick, Julia Peyton Jones, Ed Vaizey MP, Margaret Hodge MP, Louisa Buck and Vicente Todoli, amongst others, in a fascinating conference exploring the art of giving from an artist-centred perspective.

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 3

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:24:20 +0000

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 2

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:38:31 +0000

06-02-2008 The Art of Giving - Part 1

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:38:33 +0000

07-03-2008 Stephen Smith

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:45:15 +0000

Discover the vulgar history of Camden with Stephen Smith, as a part of the exhibition 'Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group'

09-02-2008 The Tragic, Comic and Transgressive in Art

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:23 +0000

The appeal of beauty is straightforward but what explains the appeal of tragic, comic or transgressive art? Tragic art asks that we contemplate horrifying events, evoking unpleasant emotions and feelings of disgust, ones we would avoid in real life. In comic art we are often amused by things which would not amuse us in everyday life. Thinking about these questions and looking at works in the gallery, this study day led by Matthew Kieran asks what it is about artistic representation that explains their appeal.

08-02-2008 BP Artist Talk: David Batchelor

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:08:37 +0000

Artist David Batchelor discusses his most recent work and his fascination with the omnipresence of colour as both a unique phenomenon and an everyday experience. Batchelor’s three-dimensional works typically combine brilliant colours, often using fluorescent or neon lights, with a range of found light-industrial materials.

06-02-2008 BP Artist Talk: Peter Doig and Adrian Searle in Conversation

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:06:49 +0000

To coincide with Tate’s major Peter Doig retrospective exhibition, the artist is in conversation with Adrian Searle talking about his substantial body of work including paintings made in the last five years since his move to Trinidad in 2002.

01-02-2008 Mat Collishaw on his work, plus Connections: Dance/Architecture

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:04:01 +0000

Mat Collishaw talks about his work inspired by and reinterpreting myth. Plus, Architect and choreographer Ana Serrano is joined by architect of Return of the Gods Adam Caruso and dancer/choreographer Tom Sapsford to explore the relationship between architecture and dance.

01-02-2008 The Colour White

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:51:29 +0000

Curator of Return of the Gods, Martin Myrone is joined by Professor Richard Dyer and artist David Batchelor to explore the colour white.

02-02-2008 Talking Art: Lawrence Weiner

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Following his highly acclaimed retrospective 'As far as the eye can see' (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Lawrence Weiner discusses his work with art historian and critic John Slyce.

26-01-2008 Copying Eden: Inside, Outside and After Chilean Art

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Art produced inside, outside and after the constraints of dictatorship is examined in the research that culminated in the publication Copying Eden: Recent Art from Chile edited by curator Gerardo Mosquera. The author presents an overview of thirty years of art production in Chile, followed by presentations by two prominent Chilean artists and curator and writer Guy Brett.

20-10-2007 Joep Van Lieshout

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:32:44 +0000

The third interview in the new Talking Art series is artist Joep van Lieshout, founder of Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) a team of creatives based in Rotterdam, in conversation with critic Marcus Verhagen.

25-11-2007 Film Synergies

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:17:28 +0000

In Latin America the practice of film co-production with Europe became significantly widespread in the 1990s. The event includes the screening of the 46-minute documentary Latin America in Co-production (Libia Villazana, UK/Peru 2007), which explores the mechanisms, pros and cons of this practice.

01-12-2007 Pawel Althamer

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:11:49 +0000

Polish artist Pawel Althamer discusses the performative elements of his work with curator and writer Polly Staple. Pawel Althamer’s multi-faceted practice includes sculptures, installations, autobiographical videos, and performances. Declaring that ‘we are all actors'.

24-11-2007 Talking Art - Christian Marclay

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:12:08 +0000

The fourth interview in the Tate/Art Monthly Talking Art series is between acclaimed artist Christian Marclay, renowned for his collages of music, sculpture, film and image, and art historian, Gilda Williams.

22-11-2007 Real Architecture - Peter Markli

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:07:47 +0000

Peter Märkli, one of Switzerland’s leading architects, talks about his design for a visitor centre, prominently positioned in a recent redevelopment of a pharmaceutical industrial site in central Basel.

20-11-2007 'I'm Not a Woman Writer' - Toril Moi

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:04:02 +0000

Recent theories of women, sex and gender have challenged the category of woman. The value of literature (and the other arts) has also been called into question. Have the new gender theories made feminist criticism obsolete? Does it still make sense to claim, as the first feminist critics did, that literature and other arts are crucially important to feminists? Professor Toril Moi addresses these questions in the 2007 Feminist Theory lecture.

16-11-2007 The Archival Impulse - Part 2

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:55:40 +0000

Bringing together leading artists, archivists and theorists, this study day explores why the archive has become a central issue in contemporary artistic strategy and examines how the archive has been figured, contested and constructed by artists. It will also examine a range of theoretical thinking and critical engagement with the past in order to provide a creative space for the future.

16-11-2007 The Archival Impulse - Part 1

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:54:45 +0000

13-11-2007 Real Architecture: David Adjaye

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:59:10 +0000

David Adjaye proposes a certain formation of 'publicness'. In this session of Real Architecture, Adjaye talks about the Denver project and the problem of architects to repropose the concept of the public space.

17-10-2007 Real Architecture: Michiel Riedijk

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:41:58 +0000

Real Architecture examines some of the most significant contemporary architects and projects and presents a dynamic cross-section of current trends in international architectural practice. In the first of the series, Architect Michiel Riedijk talks about his new project.

01-11-2007 Mario Ybarra Jr

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:17:18 +0000

Los Angeles-based artist Mario Ybarra Jr draws attention to forms of culture that exist in the margins of the mainstream. Verging on the pseudo-anthropological, Ybarra’s work examines hidden cultural histories: often alluding to or parodying the street culture of West Coast US. His reference points span from the activities of inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, to a social exploration of the expanding numbers of barbershops across African-American communities. Ybarra will be discussing his practice prior to his performance, which will bring together barbers from across London to participate in a hair-cutting competition at Tate Modern.

03-10-2007 Steven Dwoskin

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:42:16 +0000

‘A cinematographic journey through the photographic atmospheres of Bill Brandt’ by renowned experimental filmmaker Steve Dwoskin. Many of the photographer's most famous images are presented, along with Brandt himself, who died in December 1983. Much of the film is a succession of glistening, high contrast monochrome frames, echoing Brandt’s style and blurring the boundary between the photographs and the film’s photography.

02-10-2007 Richard Hamilton

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:39:44 +0000

Made in collaboration with the artist Richard Hamilton, this documentary remains vivid and surprising nearly forty years on. Fragments of Hamilton’s works are integrated with newsreel images, movie trailers and much else. The artist offers an audio-only commentary, but this too is layered and disrupted. From this disorienting and often funny patchwork emerges a perceptual analysis that avoids conventional explanation, yet reveals key ideas that shaped Hamilton's art.

08-09-2007 Softspace - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:31:41 +0000

The physically permanent identity of architecture has helped to define society for centuries. Now some practitioners have disengaged from tectonics as we traditionally understand it and are taking their discipline into the realms of ‘softspace’, a more fluid, ephemeral form of digitally-enabled design based on personalised experiences and responses

08-09-2007 Softspace - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:31:00 +0000

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 4

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:27:36 +0000

Establishing a sustainable, dynamic field of knowledge regarding contemporary art from beyond Western Europe and the USA remains a persistent challenge. In response, Transnational Correspondence brings a group of Brazilian artists, writers and curators into dialogue with their UK contemporaries.

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 3

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:26:38 +0000

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:25:51 +0000

15-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 2 - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:24:48 +0000

14-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 1 - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:23:45 +0000

14-09-2007 Transnational Correspondence Day 1 - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:22:44 +0000

29-09-2007 Martha Rosler

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:18:53 +0000

Martha Rosler is one of the most influential artists of her generation whose work frequently compels the viewer to rethink the boundaries between the public and the private, the social and political. Her work centres on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience, and encompasses works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture.

05-10-2007 Sculpture Day Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:10:17 +0000

This forum explores the global contexts of contemporary sculpture, with artists originally from Cuba, China, India, Japan and Nigeria giving presentations about their work. This will be a unique opportunity to hear why sculpture remains a relevant language at a time when 2D media proliferate, and how its international currency is shaped through origin, migration and local circumstance.

05-10-2007 Sculpture Day Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:10:17 +0000

27-10-2007 Louise Bourgeois Conference - Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:01:05 +0000

On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition this conference brings together a fascinating range of perspectives on the extraordinary work of this artist who has worked in dialogue with most of the major artistic movements of the twentieth century, but has always followed her own path, powerfully inventive and at the forefront of contemporary practice.

27-10-2007 Louise Bourgeois Conference - Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0000

20-10-2007 Sublime Conference Day 2 Part 2

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:00:17 +0000

This symposium asks why the Sublime now? What is its legacy today? In what ways has the Sublime acquired an added urgency in our new millennium? And to what extent is this concept a useful or dangerous tool for the understanding of contemporary culture and history?

20-10-2007 Sublime Conference Day 2 Part 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:58:55 +0000

19-10-2007 Sublime Conference Day 1

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:55:52 +0000

26-10-2007 Millais - Colin Cruise

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:52:27 +0000

Despite entering the Royal Academy as its youngest ever student and ending his career as its president, John Everett Millais’s attitude to the ‘establishment’ of British art was at times considered rebellious. Art historian Colin Cruise considers Millais’s work and its critical reception in relation to this complicated history.

28-09-2007 Millais - Jason Rosenfeld

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:49:48 +0000

Jason Rosenfeld, Associate Professor at Marymount Manhattan College, New York and co-curator of Millais, reveals the curatorial thinking behind the exhibition as he explores John Everett Millais’s career, from his early academic paintings to his magnificent late landscapes.

05-10-2007 Millais - Alan Morrison

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:46:10 +0000

Alan Morrison, Principal Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Westminster, examines the illustrations John Everett Millais made for a volume of Alfred Tennyson’s poems and his use of other literary subject matter, and relates these to the representation of gender in Millais’s work.

04-10-2007 Malcolm Morley

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:42:27 +0000

Malcolm Morley is admired for his refusal to settle into a style or a way of making art that is predictable. “I wouldn’t want anything I did to look like anything else and I wouldn’t want anything else I’ve done to look like much of what I’m doing now.”

03-10-2007 Wolfgang Tillmans

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:38:22 +0000

Since the mid 1980s, Wolfgang Tillmans has reinterpreted representational genres from portraiture to still life to landscape through the medium of photography.

02-06-2007 Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour Symposium Session 3

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:26:57 +0100

This symposium has been organised in anticipation of the forthcoming exhibition Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour. It will explore the findings of new research into Oiticica’s artistic practice and the issues raised by this major exhibition.The sessions will also examine Oiticica’s life and his legacy, in particular with regards to his participatory practice which continues to influence contemporary art.

02-06-2007 Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour Symposium Session 2

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:23:38 +0100

02-06-2007 Helio Oiticica: The Body of Colour Symposium Session 1

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:23:38 +0100

16-06-2007 Surrealism and Film: Study Day

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:11:48 +0100

On the occasion of Tate Modern’s major exhibition Dalí & Film, this study day explores the work of Salvador Dalí in relation to the wider links between surrealism and film

23-06-2007 Hans Haacke

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:24:43 +0100

Talking Art, a series of interviews with artists, is an exciting new collaboration between Tate Modern and Art Monthly. Hans Haacke's incisive, unflinchingly political works expose systems of power and influence and often court controversy.

13-07-2007 Disrupting Narratives

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:57:50 +0100

This international symposium brings together some of the world's leading media artists, theorists and researchers to explore real-time interaction in electronic media.

22-07-2007 Patrick Keiller

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:50:04 +0100

Patrick Keiller is one of Britain’s most distinctive voices in cinema. For this screening and lecture, Keiller will present material from Londres, Bombay (2006), his ambitious multi-screen video reconstruction of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) in Mumbai.

28-03-2007 Hogarth Study Day Part 1

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:00:17 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience.

28-03-2007 Hogarth Study Day Part 2

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:58:53 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience.

02-03-2007 Mark Hallet on Hogarth

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:59:04 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience.

16-03-2007 Writing London

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:41:41 +0100

In conjunction with Hogarth, this creative writing workshop explores the urban environment as a source of artistic inspiration and production.

24-02-2007 Alan Morrison on Hogarth

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:31:06 +0100

William Hogarth is recognised as the first great artistic chronicler of modern urban experience. Alan Morrison, lecturer at the University of Westminster, explores Hogarth’s sharp-witted and often satirical observations of life in eighteenth-century London.

28-06-2007 The Genius of Turner

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:22:33 +0100

JMW Turner was Britain’s greatest and most prolific painters, producing over 32,000 works, the majority of which are held at Tate Britain.

21-09-2007 Aubrey Williams Part 2

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:42:21 +0100

Artist Aubrey Williams was a key figure in the establishment of black visual culture in Britain and one of the founders of the Caribbean Arts Movement in the 1960s

21-09-2007 Aubrey Williams Part 1

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:41:18 +0100

Artist Aubrey Williams was a key figure in the establishment of black visual culture in Britain and one of the founders of the Caribbean Arts Movement in the 1960s

12-05-2007 Ian Breakwell Part 2

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:33:27 +0100

Artist Ian Breakwell (1943–2005) employed most forms of visual media during his 40-year career. This study day, chaired by Paul Bonaventura, brings together some of the commentators and collaborators who worked with Breakwell to discuss his legacy.

12-05-2007 Ian Breakwell Part 1

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:27:50 +0100

16-05-2007 Jarvis Cocker

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:54:25 +0100

Artist and performer Harland Miller joins his old friend Jarvis Cocker to discuss their shared passion for music, iconic British culture and how the popular and the everyday can be a point of departure for creative exploration.

09-05-2007 Frank Bowling

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:44:16 +0100

Frank Bowling was born in Guyana in 1936 and he studied at the Royal College of Art with David Hockney and Derek Boshier. He has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, shown in the 2003 Venice Biennale and his work is held in many international collections. He joins critic and author Mel Gooding in conversation.

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalisation: Part 4

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:09:23 +0000

A series of guests will present their ideas on technology, activism and culture. Artist John Jordan reflects on the role of artist as activist, Tim Kindberg (Hewlett Packard) discusses his research into active bar codes while Jemima Rellie (Head of Digital Programmes, Tate) reflects on how we curate culture through networks. The event is chaired by Anne Nigten (Director of V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam).

Case Study 4: Presentation by Bella Dicks

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalisation: Part 3

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:09:30 +0000

Case Study 3: Presentation by Tim Kindberg

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalisation: Part 2

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:09:37 +0000

Case Study 2: Presentation by Jemima Rellie

07-04-2007 Art, Lifestyle & Globalisation: Part 1

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:09:43 +0000

Case Study 1: Presentation by John Jordan

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 3 Part 3 & Session 4

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:32:39 +0100

Between architecture and advertising, fine art and mass culture, film and technology, how can the theories and practices of the Independent Group contribute to our understanding of the collapsing disciplinary boundaries of contemporary visual culture? To what extent did the Independent Group anticipate the impact of the digital revolution on visual culture and the value of ephemerality? Mark Wigley delivers a keynote and is joined by international critics, historians and practitioners to discuss these issues.

Session Three: Film and Image
Eric de Chassey (University of Tours, France)
Questions: Chair Victoria Walsh

Session Four: The Legacy of the Independent Group
Charlie Gere (Reader in New Media Research at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University): "A Dream of Technical Control"
Sylvia Harrison (Senior Lecturer of Art History, La Trobe University): "Pop art to post-modernism: the legacy of Lawrence Alloway's 'fine art - pop art continuum'"
Questions and closing discussion. Chair: Barry Curtis

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 3 Part 2

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:28:08 +0100

Session Three: Film and Image
Laurent Stalder (Assistant Professor, GTA Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, Zurich): Architecture as "Image"

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 3 Part 1

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:26:40 +0100

Session Three: Film and Image
Peter Stanfield (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Kent): Lawrence Alloway’s Pop Art Film Criticism and its Place in British Film Studies

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 2

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:22:13 +0100

Session Two: Architecture and Material Culture

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 1 Part 7

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:18:11 +0100

Discussion and Questions with speakers

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 1 Part 6

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:16:33 +0100

Keynote Lecture: Mark Wigley (Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Columbia)

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 1 Part 5

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:13:40 +0100

Session One: The Independent Group: Ideas and Influence:
Discussion

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 1 Part 4

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:10:33 +0100

Session One: The Independent Group: Ideas and Influence:
Jeremy Hunt (Editor, Art & Architecture)

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 1 Part 3

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:09:18 +0100

Session One: The Independent Group: Ideas and Influence:
Nigel Whiteley (Professor of Visual Arts, University of Lancaster)

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 1 Part 2

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:07:47 +0100

Session One: The Independent Group: Ideas and Influence:
Ben Highmore (Reader in Media Studies, University of Sussex)

23-03-2007 The Legacy of the Independent Group Day 1: Session 1 Part 1

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:05:01 +0100

Session One: The Independent Group: Ideas and Influence:
Anne Wealleans (Professor of Design History, University of Kingston)

13-02-2007 Grayson Perry: Studio Visit

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:15:56 +0100

Grayson Perry is best known for his ceramic work. His explicit, playful, poignant and often tragic narratives give voice to the intricacies of personal subjectivity. From the nature of adolescence to sexual persuasion his work, both object-based and performative, opens questions and confronts everyday prejudice. This special day invites visitors to learn more about his work in the morning with a one-hour lecture and question and answer session, followed by a trip to Grayson Perry’s studio and a discussion with the artist.

17-02-2007 Introducing Hogarth

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:42:57 +0100

Christine Riding, co-curator of Hogarth, introduces the key theme of the exhibition, which presents Hogarth’s work as strikingly modern and urban in nature and contextualises his celebrated patriotism and Britishness within the remarkably cosmopolitan artistic environments he inhabited.

21-02-2007 Contested Territories: On Design

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:38:52 +0100

Renowned academic Beatriz Colomina and architect Bernard Tschumi come together to discuss the relationship between architectural forms, the events that take place within them, and modern institutions of representation.

15-03-2007 Mark Wallinger: State Britain

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:25:43 +0100

Mark Wallinger has recreated peace campaigner Brian Haw’s Parliament Square protest for a dramatic new installation at Tate Britain. Running along the full length of the Duveen Galleries, State Britain consists of a meticulous reconstruction of over 600 weather-beaten banners, photographs, peace flags and messages from well-wishers that have been amassed by Haw over the past five years.

07-02-2007 Stravinsky's Progress

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:06:47 +0100

Igor Stravinsky first saw William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress engravings in Chicago in 1946 and soon embarked on writing his own operatic fable on the subject in collaboration with WH Auden and Chester Kallman. Musicologist Gavin Plumley explores how music and poetry have clothed Hogarth’s moralising pictures with operatic pastiche and rich literary references.

07-02-2007 Science And Art

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:53:42 +0100

This event brings together scientists Patrick Haggard, Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology, and Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford; artist Cornelia Parker, art historian Adrian Rifkin are joined by Sian Ede to explore the idea of ambiguity and failure in science and art. Is there a common language that has the power to transform either practice?

18-10-2006 On Liberty and Art: Part 3

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:08:32 +0100

This year’s bicentennial of JS Mill, author of On Liberty (1859), is an occasion to re-examine how artists are promoted by the state and media as exemplars of personal liberty, creative individualism and the pursuit of happiness. In contrast, an address to liberty through art reveals how liberty as a supposedly self-evident and universal value is grounded in historical contingency, social pragmatism and cultural prohibitions.

18-10-2006 On Liberty and Art: Part 2

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:07:50 +0100

18-10-2006 On Liberty and Art: Part 1

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:06:57 +0100

11-11-2006 Ways of Seeing 1: Part 3

Thu, 31 May 2007 17:38:26 +0100

Designed for students and teachers of AS/A2 History of Art, this conference includes lectures and discussions on ways of viewing art and architecture from artists, critics and art historians.

11-11-2006 Ways of Seeing 1: Part 2

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:03:12 +0100

Designed for students and teachers of AS/A2 History of Art, this conference includes lectures and discussions on ways of viewing art and architecture from artists, critics and art historians.

11-11-2006 Ways of Seeing 1: Part 1

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:02:24 +0100

Designed for students and teachers of AS/A2 History of Art, this conference includes lectures and discussions on ways of viewing art and architecture from artists, critics and art historians.

09-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 2: Part 4

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:26:11 +0100

London is a leading world market for contemporary art, but how has this come about? What role have dealers played? What is the anxiety about the relationship between money and art? How can we study the art market and what can it tell us both of the past and the present status of art?

Closing Discussion Including Jason Bowman and James Lingwood

08-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 1: Part 3

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:12:05 +0100

Andrew Stephenson: ‘From Conscription to Depression: The Market for Modern British Art in London c. 1916-1930’
Richard Calvocoressi: ‘Cork Street in the 1930s: the Mayor and London Galleries’
Chair: Malcolm Gee

09-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 2: Part 3

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:24:08 +0100

'The Art of Collecting'
Panel discussion: Alex Sainsbury, Susan May, Ann Gallagher, Vicky Hughes
Chair: Louisa Buck

09-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 2: Part 2

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:22:08 +0100

Georgina Adam: 'The market for contemporary art, London and the “Frieze effect”
Panel Discussion: Georgina Adam, Matthew Slotover, Louisa Buck
Chair: Alice Rawsthorn

09-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 2: Part 1

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:16:37 +0100

Andrew Brighton: 'The Art Market and Modernism'
Panel Discussion: Andrew Brighton, Sadie Coles, Oliver Barker

08-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 1: Part 4

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:55 +0100

Professor Lisa Tickner: ‘The Kasmin Gallery 1963–1972’
Professor Fran Lloyd: ‘The Interconnective Spaces of New British Sculpture: From the Lisson to Public Collections’
Chair: Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton

08-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 1: Part 2

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:08:40 +0100

Professor Pamela Fletcher: ‘Shopping for Art: Commercial Art Galleries and Their Publics 1870-1914’
Professor Anne Helmreich: ‘The Changing Environment of the Commercial Art Dealer in London c. 1893 - 1923'
Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins: ‘Fry, Modernism and the Art Market’
Chair: Malcolm Gee

08-02-2007 The Rise of the London Art Market Day 1: Part 1

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:04:40 +0100

Professor Hans Van Miegroet: Keynote Lecture
Chair: Andrew Brighton

04-03-2007 Pervasive Animation Day 3: Part 2

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:27:15 +0100

This timely and groundbreaking international conference unites speakers from a wide range of research agendas and creative practices. It facilitates much-needed dialogue centred on the ubiquitous and interdisciplinary nature of animation, its potentially radical future development, and its ethical responsibilities for spatial politics in moving image culture.

04-03-2007 Pervasive Animation Day 3: Part 1

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:26:21 +0100

03-03-2007 Pervasive Animation Day 2: Part 4

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:11 +0100

03-03-2007 Pervasive Animation Day 2: Part 3

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:22:41 +0100

03-03-2007 Pervasive Animation Day 2: Part 2

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:23:47 +0100

03-03-2007 Pervasive Animation Day 2: Part 1

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:22:41 +0100

02-03-2007 Pervasive Animation Day 1

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:20:01 +0100

06-10-2006 Late at Tate

Fri, 18 May 2007 16:20:26 +0100

Enjoy a night of feasting and excess, inspired by Tudor decadence. Pig out on the hog roast, surrounded by Renaissance entertainment including a court jester with a contemporary twist. Listen to foodie talks from Richard Fitch, J Marc Meltonville and Fay Maschler. Watch a screening of Babette’s Feast and see the Turner Prize 2006 and Holbein in England exhibitions for half price. Listen to luscious ambient sounds and the latest left-field minimalism from DJ Ben Eshmade, the man behind Classic FM's Chiller Cabinet and its live offshoot, The Arctic Circle.

02-05-2007 Nan Goldin

Fri, 11 May 2007 16:26:49 +0100

Goldin's photographs reveal and honour personal stories of memory, love and friendship within the contemporary urban settings of cities such as New York and Berlin, and her photographs have influenced younger artists, filmmakers and fashion photographers.

29-04-2007 Gilbert and George with Michael Bracewell

Fri, 11 May 2007 16:22:40 +0100

Gilbert & George have been active for four decades, boldly contesting elitist rubrics that exist within the British arts establishment. The duo have created a rich and highly influential portrayal of metropolitan life in London. They are in conversation with writer, novelist and cultural commentator Michael Bracewell.

25-04-2007 Münster Sculpture Project

Fri, 11 May 2007 16:17:03 +0100

Since 1977, when skulptur projekte münster first brought together artists from all over the world to define the relationship between art and the public, there have been great changes in the way artists engage with urban space and the public sphere, and in the way the public engages with art works. skulptur projekte münster 07, curated by Brigitte Franzen, Kasper König and Carina Plath, takes up the challenge to redefine these relationships.

17-04-2007 Owusu Ankomah

Fri, 11 May 2007 16:03:58 +0100

Owusu Ankomah’s canvases employ geographically and historically diverse visual references, from Saharan rock painting and Italian Renaissance sculpture, to Ghanaian textile designs, Chinese calligraphy, New York graffiti and capoeira martial arts from Brazil. In a series of new works commemorating the 2007 bicentenary of the British parliamentary abolition of the slave trade, Owusu-Ankomah calls for a freedom not only of the body, but also of the spirit. Paying tribute to those who have historically struggled for emancipation and consciousness in the African diaspora, he declares through his work a manifesto of love and understanding to fill the space between past and future.

16-04-2007 Sarah Kent on Gilbert and George

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:50:15 +0100

Sarah Kent, renowned critic and former visual arts editor of Time Out, gives a candid account of Gilbert & George. From her first meeting with the dynamic duo after they left art school to the interviews and reviews of their work she has written since, Kent discusses how Gilbert & George's work reflects their immediate environment in London's East End.

13-04-2007 When Fashion and Art Collide: Part 2

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:43:48 +0100

This study day explores the relationship between art and fashion, starting at 10:30 at the National Portrait Gallery with a welcome and visit to the exhibition Face of Fashion with curator Susan Bright. The afternoon session starts at Tate Modern at 14:00 with a discussion exploring artist commissions initiated by magazines and alternative fashion and art platforms. Speakers Masoud Golsorkhi, Tank, Charlotte Sinclair, British Vogue and Penny Martin, SHOWstudio will be in discussion with Susan Bright.

13-04-2007 When Fashion and Art Collide: Part 1

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:38:57 +0100

22-03-2007 Shifting Practice Session: 4

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:26:03 +0100

This conference explores the idea that artists’ installations draw into sharp focus the way in which contemporary artistic practice can potentially shift the organisational logic of the museum. Where is the dividing line between installation artist and curator? How should installations be conserved and reinstalled? How does this practice affect notions of artistic authorship? This conference looks at places of friction and resistance between contemporary art and traditional museum conventions, and considers how the roles of conservator and curator are evolving in response to particular artistic practices.

22-03-2007 Shifting Practice Session: 3

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:26:24 +0100

22-03-2007 Shifting Practice Session: 2

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:15:54 +0100

22-03-2007 Shifting Practice Session: 1

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:07:09 +0100

13-04-2007 Sound Of Materials

Fri, 11 May 2007 14:36:36 +0100

Material Scientist Dr Mark Miodownik, acoustican Professor Trevor Cox and artists Zoe Laughlin and Martin Conreen will be performing demonstrations and discussing the art and science of the sound of materials. They will consider why buildings sound the way they do, why musical instruments are made from particular materials and what sound reveals that light does not.

31-03-2007 Rethinking Spectacle

Fri, 11 May 2007 14:24:33 +0100

This symposium addresses recent claims that contemporary art is 'spectacularised' and increasingly inseparable from the marketing of large-scale museums. But what do we really mean by 'spectacle' today? And how useful are Guy Debord's ideas (Society of the Spectacle, 1967) for analysing new conditions of the display of contemporary art? Are The Unilever Series commissions such as Carsten Höller's Test Site really comparable to other forms of mass entertainment?

22-03-2007 Romauld Hazoume

Fri, 11 May 2007 13:14:53 +0100

One of West Africa’s leading visual artists, Romuald Hazoumé has worked with many media throughout his career, from discarded petrol canisters, oil paint and canvas, to large-scale installation, video and photography. As the British Museum presents the UK premiere of his major work La Bouche du Roi, Hazoumé talks with Christopher Spring, artist and curator of the Museum’s African Collections, about the people, ideas and materials that have shaped his extraordinary career.

15-03-2007 British Creative Exchange

Fri, 11 May 2007 12:55:26 +0100

How do audiences access and view art and artistic mediums? To what extent is technology changing the way creative industries engage with artistic forms? This event invites industry and audience to explore how UK creatives communicate their artform to a trans-global and fragmented audience.

10-03-2007 Actions and Interruptions

Fri, 11 May 2007 12:46:02 +0100

Actions and Interruptions is a day-long ‘exhibition’ at Tate Modern that proposes ‘performance’ to be a facet of everyday behaviour. Rather than presenting discrete, theatrical events with a clear division between performer and audience, this programme of works investigates the site of Tate Modern as a unique combination of public space and fine art museum: a site that blurs the boundaries between people looking at artwork, looking at the architecture and looking at each other.

24-02-2007 Robert Beavers

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:44:24 +0100

Robert Beavers on his film screenings in this season dedicated to his work.

19-02-2007 Gilbert & George

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:43:36 +0100

Gilbert & George in conversation about their work

15-02-2007 Dan Graham: Artist's Talk

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:42:32 +0100

Dan Graham speaks about his work and this is followed by a question-and-answer session, chaired by Anthony Kiendl, Director of Plug In ICA, Canada.

26-01-2007 Living History: No Woman No Cry

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:51:26 +0000

This discussion between Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen; Ekow Eshun, broadcaster and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; and David Adjaye, architect of the Stephen Lawrence Centre, explores one of the key events of living history in Britain.

19-01-2007 David Smith: Pioneer of a New Sculptural Dimension

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:48:27 +0000

Eric Shanes takes us through David Smith’s life and artistic development and then conducts an informal tour of the exhibition.

10-11-2006 Painting in England Beyond Holbein

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:24:57 +0000

Through an exploration of the work of Hans Holbein’s immediate successors, Tate curator Karen Hearn assesses the extent to which he had a lasting artistic influence.

28-09-2006 Hilary Spurling

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:18:24 +0000

Through an exploration of work in the Tate Collection, Hilary Spurling, renowned author of a two-volume work on Henri Matisse, examines the relationship Matisse had to English painters such as JMW Turner.

28-11-2006 Keith Tyson

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:11:39 +0000

Keith Tyson is influenced by his pursuit of knowledge and his fascination with scientific concepts and philosophical theories as a means of exploring the universe. He discusses his body of work, which he has said he uses to "locate myself, to find out where I am"

24-11-2006 Holbein Study Day

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:05:06 +0000

Susan Foister, curator of the Holbein in England exhibition, talks through the key themes and issues presented by the exhibition, and Louise Govier from the National Gallery brings to light the many different readings of Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors 1533, one of the most elusive paintings of all time.

27-09-2006 Architecture for the Future of Learning

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:53:42 +0000

This event brought together architects Irena Bauman, Sarah Wigglesworth and Amanda Levete to discuss the impact buildings have on intellect, creativity and innovation.

24-11-2006 The Black Moving Cube

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:47:37 +0000

This panel discussion marked the London launch of a major season presenting key works made by black artists working in the moving images.

22-11-2006 Turner Prize Artist's Talk: Phil Collins

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:44:19 +0000

Phil Collins creates work that is politically poignant with a light touch and generous sense of humour. In this interview the artist talks about his travels, his processes and his videos.

17-10-2006 Armando Iannucci

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:21:59 +0000

Armando Iannucci gives a lecture on comedy and its parallels with the nature and condition of Art.

15-11-2006 Turner Prize Artist's Talk: Rebecca Warren

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:14:33 +0000

Rebecca Warren talks about her work, which references an array of male masters from the history of art, from Edgar Degas to Auguste Rodin, and from the neo-expressionists to Robert Crumb.

07-11-2006 Turner Prize Artist's Talk: Tomma Abts

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:16:20 +0000

In a unique event, Abts joins Jan Verwoert of the Kunstverein Munich and the Academy of Umeå and a contributor to frieze, Springerin and Camera Austria to talk about her work.

01-12-2006 Fantasy and Fiction: Artists as Authors

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:04:29 +0000

The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories is a collection of newly commissioned short stories which offers a haunting exploration of the impulses that drive today's artists. To mark the launch of this new publication, artists Jake Chapman, Janice Kerbal, Chris Hammond and others read extracts from their own stories.

01-12-2006 Kevin Atherton In Two Minds

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:00:41 +0000

Kevin Atherton answers questions put to him by his twenty-seven-year-old, pre-recorded self.

08-12-2006 Global Photography Now: Asia Pacific Part 1

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

This seminar focuses on three practitioners, Anne Ferran, Lisa Reihana and Yee I-Lann, whose photographic work is informed by an astute sense of both the historical past and present.

08-12-2006 Global Photography Now: Asia Pacific Part 2

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

This seminar focuses on three practitioners, Anne Ferran, Lisa Reihana and Yee I-Lann, whose photographic work is informed by an astute sense of both the historical past and present.

08-12-2006 Global Photography Now: Asia Pacific Part 3

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

This seminar focuses on three practitioners, Anne Ferran, Lisa Reihana and Yee I-Lann, whose photographic work is informed by an astute sense of both the historical past and present.

09-12-2006 Global Photography Now: West Africa Part 1

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

West African artists Akinbode Akinbiyi and Zaynab Toyosi Odunsi discuss their work with critic and writer Nancy Hynes and Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts.

09-12-2006 Global Photography Now: West Africa Part 2

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

21-04-2006 Stephen Willats Multiple Clothing Part 1

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:00:00 +0100

This discussion addresses artist Stephen Willats’s seminal project MULTIPLE CLOTHING 1965-98

21-04-2006 Stephen Willats Multiple Clothing Part 2

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:00:00 +0100

This discussion addresses artist Stephen Willats’s seminal project MULTIPLE CLOTHING 1965-98

19-05-2006 Peter Blake in Discussion With Jon Snow

Fri, 19 May 2006 17:00:00 +0100

Peter Blake, one of Britain’s best-known painters and widely acknowledged as a pioneer of Pop Art in discussion with Jon Snow.

14-09-2006 M/M (Paris) Talk

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:00:00 +0100

M/M speak about their practice and collaborations, and their position between the art and design worlds with Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune.

16-09-2006 Mapping Mumbai Symposium Part 1

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:30:00 +0100

This event seeks to map Mumbai, examining the role that the arts and culture have played in the regeneration of the city.

16-09-2006 Mapping Mumbai Symposium Part 2

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:30:00 +0100

This event seeks to map Mumbai, examining the role that the arts and culture have played in the regeneration of the city.

16-09-2006 Mapping Mumbai Symposium Part 3

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:30:00 +0100

This event seeks to map Mumbai, examining the role that the arts and culture have played in the regeneration of the city.

16-09-2006 Mapping Mumbai Symposium Part 4

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:30:00 +0100

This event seeks to map Mumbai, examining the role that the arts and culture have played in the regeneration of the city.

18-09-2006 Digital Art - Scott Eaton and Johnny Hardstaff Part 1

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:30:00 +0100

Supernatural Presents ... Digital Art - Scott Eaton and Johnny Hardstaff. Scott Eaton is Creative Technical Director at Escape Studios. Eaton is joined by Hardstaff, whose PlayStation commission got him signed to Ridley Scott Associates.

18-09-2006 Digital Art - Scott Eaton and Johnny Hardstaff Part 2

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:30:00 +0100

22-09-2006 Global Photography Now: Middle East Part 1

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Internationally acclaimed artists Lida Abdul, Mitra Tabrizian, Rula Halawani and Fouad Elkoury consider some of the debates associated with regional and dogmatic representations of the Middle East.

22-09-2006 Global Photography Now: Middle East Part 2

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Internationally acclaimed artists Lida Abdul, Mitra Tabrizian, Rula Halawani and Fouad Elkoury consider some of the debates associated with regional and dogmatic representations of the Middle East.

22-09-2006 Global Photography Now: Middle East Part 3

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Internationally acclaimed artists Lida Abdul, Mitra Tabrizian, Rula Halawani and Fouad Elkoury consider some of the debates associated with regional and dogmatic representations of the Middle East.

22-09-2006 Global Photography Now: Post-Soviet States Part 1

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Leading international artists Zeigam Azizov, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Dmitry Gutov and Koka Ramishvili discuss photography in relation to the quest for cultural identity in the post-Soviet environment.

22-09-2006 Global Photography Now: Post-Soviet States Part 2

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:00:00 +0100

22-09-2006 Global Photography Now: Post-Soviet States Part 3

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:00:00 +0100

06-10-2006 Beckett and Company Part 1

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Samuel Beckett's continuing impact is the subject of this discussion between artists Dorothy Cross, Atom Egoyan, Michael Craig-Martin and Shahram Entekhabi, chaired by Derval Tubridy from Goldsmiths College.

06-10-2006 Beckett and Company Part 2

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

14-10-2006 Populism & Genre Part 1: Victor Burgin

Thu, 24 May 2007 13:58:19 +0100

This conference examines the concept of populism via the issue of genre, specifically, the changed status and functioning of genres within contemporary art since the decline in the significance of traditional media – painting and sculpture – and in the context of the increasing individualism of contemporary art. Particular attention is paid to the status of genres as social forms, art’s relationship to mass media, the strategic use of genre within post-conceptual practice, and the political functioning of genres as carriers of populism.

14-10-2006 Populism & Genre Part 2: John Kraniauskas

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:05:09 +0100

14-10-2006 Populism & Genre Part 3: Martha Kuzma

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:09:06 +0100

14-10-2006 Populism & Genre Part 4: Eric Alliez

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:10:36 +0100

14-10-2006 Populism & Genre Part 5: Jutta Koether

Thu, 24 May 2007 14:11:43 +0100

14-10-2006 Ways of Dying Symposium Part 1

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

This event explores the shifting relationship between life and death in contemporary, technologically mediated and globally linked cultures.

14-10-2006 Ways of Dying Symposium Part 2

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

This event explores the shifting relationship between life and death in contemporary, technologically mediated and globally linked cultures.

14-10-2006 Ways of Dying Symposium Part 3

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

This event explores the shifting relationship between life and death in contemporary, technologically mediated and globally linked cultures.

16-10-2006 Michael Craig-Martin in Conversation with Richard Cork

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:30:00 +0100

Michael Craig-Martin is a key figure in British Conceptual art and has been at the forefront of art developments in the UK since the 1970s. Craig-Martin talks to art historian and critic Richard Cork.

27-10-2006 Global Photography Now: Indian Sub-Continent Part 1

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

Internationally acclaimed artists Shezad Dawood, Hasan Elahi, Ram Rahman and the Raqs Media Collective discuss the impact of speed, technology, mass media and economic power on their photographic practice, and the reality of residing within one of the world’s fastest expanding economies.

27-10-2006 Global Photography Now: Indian Sub-Continent Part 2

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

27-10-2006 Global Photography Now: Indian Sub-Continent Part 3

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:00:00 +0100

02-11-2006 Global Photography Now: The Balkans Part 1

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:00:00 +0000

Four internationally acclaimed female photographic artists from the region, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Tanja Dabo, Alexandra Croitoru and Aurora Dediu, discuss the various incongruities associated with the Balkans.

02-11-2006 Global Photography Now: The Balkans Part 2

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:00:00 +0000

02-11-2006 Global Photography Now: The Balkans Part 3

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:00:00 +0000

02-11-2006 Global Photography Now: The Balkans Part 4

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:00:00 +0000

04-11-2006 Abstraction Across Media: David Smith Part 1

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:00:00 +0000

This event brings together experts and art historians Anne Wagner (University of California, Berkeley), David Anfam (Phaidon Press), Alex Potts (University of Michigan), Jeremy Lewison and Rebecca Smith, daughter of the artist, to reconsider the work of David Smith.

04-11-2006 Abstraction Across Media: David Smith Part 2

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:00:00 +0000

10-11-2006 Global Photography Now: Latin America Part 1

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

This session brings together exciting young practitioners from Latin America, including Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó; Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz; Melanie Smith, a British artist working in Mexico; and Mark Sealy, director of Autograph ABP

10-11-2006 Global Photography Now: Latin America Part 2

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

10-11-2006 Global Photography Now: Latin America Part 3

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

13-11-2006 Creative Chain Reactions

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

In this discussion, the advertising creative behind one of the campaigns inspired by Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way Things Go 1986–7 meets art experts to explore the conventions of homage, borrowing, and references in contemporary visual culture.

18-11-2006 Global Photography Now: East Asia Part 1

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

At this discussion Qiu Zhijie (Shanghai), Yeondoo Jung (Seoul), Yao Jui-Chong (Taipei) and Japanese curator Masafumi Fukagawa (Kawasaki City Museum) give their personal perspectives on one of the most dynamic and exciting areas of contemporary art.

18-11-2006 Global Photography Now: East Asia Part 2

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

18-11-2006 Global Photography Now: East Asia Part 3

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

21-11-2006 Jorge Macchi Artist's Talk

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:30:00 +0000

A talk by Argentinean artist Jorge Macchi is followed by a discussion between Macchi and Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex.

25-11-2006 Carl Andre Poetry Reading

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

Carl Andre makes a rare appearance to perform a live reading of a selection of his poems and then discuss their sources and construction with Tate curator Richard Cork