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Sarah Lucas talks to curator Dominique Heyse-Moore about breeze blocks, the many uses of chairs, and eliciting a gut reaction
Cai Jin 蔡锦
Cai Jin (born 1965) works with oil paint in vibrant colours. Her most celebrated work is the Banana Plant series, …
Margaret Harrison: Studio visit
Which is more shocking, a naked women astride a giant banana, or Hugh Hefner in suspenders?
Research
Placing Bookmarks: The Institutionalisation and De-Institutionalisation of Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art
The recent interest in avant-garde art from Hungary shown by international museums such as Tate has been paralleled by transformations …
Lazy Objects: Viewing Mladen Stilinović’s Exploitation of the Dead
Mladen Stilinović’s artwork Exploitation of the Dead 1984–90 comprises a huge group of objects concerned with the history of the …
Duchamp, Childhood, Work and Play: The Vernissage for First Papers of Surrealism , New York, 1942
Visitors to the opening of the First Papers of Surrealism exhibition in New York in 1942 were disorientated, not only …
Library and Archive
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Third Havana Biennial 1989: A Conversation Between Shaheen Merali, Pitika Ntuli and Jasmine Chohan
In this conversation, as part of Panchayat-Horizon, Shaheen Merali, Pitika Ntuli and Jasmine Chohan discuss the Havana Biennial of …
Raúl Martínez
Avant-garde
As applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter
Tate Kids
Who is Pablo Picasso?
Welcome to the experimental world of Pablo Picasso
Who is Patrick Caulfield?
Explore the colourful – and sometimes confusing – world of Patrick Caulfield!
Who are the Guerrilla Girls?
They wear disguises, use false names, put their art in places they shouldn’t and disrupt posh art events…who are these …