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Selector: Mark Leckey Performances

Selector is a collaboration between Future Yard and Tate Liverpool, centred on a high-quality programme of contemporary music curated by …

Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
11 Jun 2026, 12 Jun 2026, 13 Jun 2026
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Having a Gas

Sarah Lucas talks to curator Dominique Heyse-Moore about breeze blocks, the many uses of chairs, and eliciting a gut reaction

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Cai Jin 蔡锦

Cai Jin (born 1965) works with oil paint in vibrant colours. Her most celebrated work is the Banana Plant series, …

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Shoji Hamada
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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Letter from Lajos Hatvany

Lajos Hatvany, recipient: Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
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Lajos Hatvany, recipient: Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
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Third Havana Biennial 1989: A Conversation Between Shaheen Merali, Pitika Ntuli and Jasmine Chohan

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Raúl Martínez

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