Highlights
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Podcast
The Art of Memory
How can our past inspire us to create? We explore the role of memory in art
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Look Closer
The Racial and Identity Politics of Head of a Man
Consider and question the intentions, politics and legacy of this landmark artwork
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List
Five Ways Aliza Nisenbaum Approaches Portraiture
From paintings of train drivers to National Health Service workers, explore this artist’s style of portraiture
Meet the Collection Artists
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List
Five things to know about Gordon Bennett
Meet one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists, whose bold and playful works explore the politics of identity
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Look Closer
Introducing Judy Watson
Meet the artist exploring her Aboriginal heritage and using art to bring about social change
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Tate Kids
Who Are They?
Who is Chila Kumari Singh Burman?
Surreal collages, etchings and giant ice creams: welcome to the fantastical world of Chila Kumari Singh Burman
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List
How Muholi is affirming beauty
Explore this visual-activist's practice through three photographic series
Art in the collection
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Jadé Fadojutimi I Present Your Royal Highness
2018 -
Berenice Sydney Fast Rhythm
1972 -
Nicole Wermers French Junkies # 9
2002 -
Joseph Beuys Gespräch über bäume. Wein
1983 -
Chris Steele-Perkins from The Pleasure Principle
1980–9 -
Ann Hamilton mneme
1994–6 -
Caroline Achaintre AstraY
2014 -
Susan Hiller Psi Girls
1999 -
Cecilia Vicuña Violeta Parra
1973 -
Pacita Abad Bacongo III
1986
Get Creative
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How To
How to Cast like Rachel Whiteread
Ever wondered how casting works? Find out how with our step-by-step
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Student Resource
Changed Identity Coursework Guide
From changing their own identities to changing the identity of objects, how have artists explored the theme of changed identity?
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Talking Point
Why study art?
Find out why art education is important from artists, young people and major cultural figures
Listen
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Podcast
Where Does Time go?
Discover the making of The Clock and hear from a range of people sharing their experiences of time
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Podcast
Walks of art: Bonnie Greer on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
The writer and critic explores the friendships, work and designs behind this radical set of artists
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In the Gallery
Audio Description: White and Yellow
Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of this artwork by Marlow Moss
Art Terms
Find definitions of over 400 terms, including art movements, styles and techniques
See more Art TermsLand art
Land art or earth art is art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs
Feminist art
Feminist art is art by artists made consciously in the light of developments in feminist art theory in the early 1970s
PESTS
PESTS was an anonymous protest and pressure group of artists operating in New York in the 1980s who aimed to expose the discrimination, exclusion and tokenism directed towards artists from racial minorities by commercial galleries and public museums
Activist art
Activist art is a term used to describe art that is grounded in the act of ‘doing’ and addresses political or social issues
A print is an impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another
Miniature
A miniature is a small painting, usually a portrait
Scottish Colourists
Group of four Scottish artists, who were among the first to introduce the intense colour of the French fauve movement into Britain in the 1920s
Digital art
Digital art is a term used to describe art that is made or presented using digital technology
Live art
The term live art refers to performances or events undertaken or staged by an artist or a group of artists as a work of art, usually innovative and exploratory in nature
Identity politics
Identity politics is the term used to describe an anti-authoritarian political and cultural movement that gained prominence in the USA and Europe in the mid-1980s, asking questions about identity, repression, inequality and injustice and often focusing on the experience of marginalised groups
Black Audio Film Collective
The Black Audio Film Collective is a pioneering arts initiative founded in 1982 whose ground-breaking experimental works engaged with black popular and political culture in Britain and the black / Asian Diasporas
Collective
Loosely defined, an art collective is a group of artists working together to achieve a common objective
The uncanny
A concept in art associated with psychologist Sigmund Freud which describes a strange and anxious feeling sometimes created by familiar objects in unfamilar contexts
Social sculpture
Social sculpture is a theory developed by the artist Joseph Beuys in the 1970s based on the concept that everything is art, that every aspect of life could be approached creatively and, as a result, everyone has the potential to be an artist
Dig Deeper
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Read
Constellations: Indigenous Contemporary Art from the Americas
A digital forum for transnational conversations establishing parallels between Latin America and North America
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Behind The Scenes
A Short Film on the Cleaning Modern Oil Paints Project
Watch how conservators and scientists approach the challenges of cleaning 20th- and 21st-century oil paintings -
Tate Etc
A Glimpse of the Future
Steve McQueen talks to Gary Younge about what Year 3 has meant to him and his own London childhood
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Interview
Photojournalism Now
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi talks about the ethics of her work and the impact of technology on documenting conflict