Highlights
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List
An Introduction to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
From her imagined figures to her poetic titles, discover this figurative painter’s work
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Interview
Zanele Muholi: ‘In My World, Every Human is Beautiful’
Hear how the power of images can show LGBTQIA+ people worldwide that they are not alone
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Online Guide
Wellbeing and Art
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TateShots
Bruce Nauman:‘The true artist helps the world’
Collaborators and fans explain the influence and mystery of the American artist
Meet the Collection Artists
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Look Closer
How this Painting Campaigned for Women’s Rights
It captures a single woman trying to earn a living as an artist
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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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TateShots
Raqib Shaw: ‘Taking craft to a crazy, romantic extreme’
The Indian-born, London-based artist's extraordinary paintings feature rich colours and intricate detail
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Tate Kids
Who Are They?
Who is Yinka Shonibare?
Meet the artist who connects different cultures and reveals hidden histories
Art in the collection
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Benode Behari Mukherjee Two Triangles
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Li Yuan-chia [no title]
1993 -
Paula Rego Nanny, Small Bears and Bogeyman
1982 -
Cornelia Parker Object That Fell off the White Cliffs of Dover
1992 -
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Lady with the Beehive (Byker)
1971, printed 2012 -
Sophie Calle The Hotel, Room 28
1981 -
Raqib Shaw Jane
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Martin Parr The Last Resort 25
1983–6, printed 2018
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Tate Kids
Quiz
Quiz: Which Arty Fairy Are You?
Play free games and quizzes, find art activities, explore homework help and share your art with Tate Kids. The best … -
Student Resource
Myths and Legends Coursework Guide
Be inspired by myths and legends – or create your own!
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Talking Point
Making Art in Isolation
Explore how artists of past and present have been creative whilst in solitude
Listen
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In the Gallery
Audio Description: Two Forms (Divided Circle)
Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of this artwork by artist Dame Barbara Hepworth
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In the Gallery
Audio Description: Babel
Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of Cildo Meireles's Babel
Art Terms
Find definitions of over 400 terms, including art movements, styles and techniques
See more Art TermsDiaspora
Diaspora is a term used to describe movements in population from one country to another and is often cited in discussions about identity
Surrealism
A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary
Mail art
Mail art is a movement based on the principle of sending small scale works through the postal service
Time-based media
Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension
Postcolonial art
Postcolonial art refers to art produced in response to the aftermath of colonial rule, frequently addressing issues of national and cultural identity, race and ethnicity
Medium
Medium can refer to both to the type of art (e.g. painting, sculpture, printmaking), as well as the materials an artwork is made from
British black arts movement
The British black arts movement was a radical political art movement founded in 1982 inspired by anti-racist discourse and feminist critique, which sought to highlight issues of race and gender and the politics of representation
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
Documentary photography
Documentary photography is a style of photography that provides a straightforward and accurate representation of people, places, objects and events, and is often used in reportage
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
Kitsch
Kitsch is the German word for trash, and is used in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms of popular and commercial culture
Collective
Loosely defined, an art collective is a group of artists working together to achieve a common objective
Tempera
The technique of painting with pigments bound in a water-soluble emulsion, such as water and egg yolk, or an oil-in-water emulsion such as oil and a whole egg
Brutalism
Brutalism is an architectural style of the 1950s and 1960s characterised by simple, block-like forms and raw concrete construction
Dig Deeper
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Tate Etc
Bruce Nauman: Restless Invention
A long-time friend of Bruce Nauman offers a personal account of Nauman's varied and often unclassifiable art
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Tate Etc
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Speaking through Painting
In this interview, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye speaks to Antwaun Sargent about her art, music and writing
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In Focus
Family Jules: NNN (No Naked Niggahs) 1974 by Barkley L. Hendricks
The first in-depth study of this key nude portrait by Barkley L. Hendricks
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In Focus
Surface Substitution on 36 Plates 1972 by Jennifer Bartlett
This In Focus presents the first in-depth study of this key work of conceptual art from the 1970s