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Tag: Tate

Decorating Dissidence in conversation: Sophie Taeuber-Arp and ‘movement in design’

13th October 202114th October 2021  Decorating Dissidence

Jade French, Suzanna Petot and Lottie Whalen of the interdisciplinary collective, Decorating Dissidence, discuss the recent Sophie Taeuber-Arp exhibition at Tate Modern, how dance informed Taeuber-Arp’s work and practise, and why she is relevant for us today.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, InterviewsTagged: applied arts, Dada, Decorating Dissidence, Design, drawing, embroidery, Jade French, Laban, Lottie Whalen, painting, sculpture, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Suzanna Petot, Take Dada Seriously, Tate, Tate Modern

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain

4th February 20214th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Before the second lockdown Toni Roberts saw Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s show Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain. Here, she recalls vibrant paintings alive with stories, brilliant studies of people, and human relationships that transcend the canvas’ edges.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Andrea Schlieker, art, Cézanne, Fly in League with the Night, Francisco de Goya, Isabella Maidment, John Singer Sargent, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Manet, painting, portraits, portraiture, Tate, Tate Britain, Walter Sickert

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 at Tate Britain

8th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic Year 3 project brings together more than 3000 class portraits from over 1500 primary schools to commemorate a most formative time in a child’s educational life. The result, says our writer Shamini Sriskandarajah, is at once illuminating and moving.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Childhood, children, Duveen Galleries, dyslexia, filmmaker, learning difficulties, London, Maria Balshaw, Photography, portraits, Primary schools, Small Axe, Steve McQueen, Tate, Tate Britain, Year 3

Ophelia Redux

10th November 202010th November 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Millais’ painting, Ophelia, continues to inspire viewers and critics alike, but what if the heroine came back from the watery grave she was condemned to? Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou considers the return of Ophelia in the artwork of Jada Bruney and Rolake Osabia, and the music visuals of Christine and the Queens.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Chris, Christine and the Queens, Griselda Pollock, Jada Bruney, Jaqueline Rose, John Everett Millais, Millais, music video, Nathaniel Telemaque, Ophelia, painting, Photography, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphealitism, Rolake Osabia, Tate, Tate Britain, Tate Collective, The Ophelia Letters

Postcards in Isolation 25: William Nicholson, Miss Jekyll’s Gardening Boots, 1920

8th September 202010th September 2020  Julia Bagguley

During lockdown, Julia Bagguley found solace and hope in her garden. Here, in the twenty-fifth postcard of the series, she reflects on another gardener, Gertrude Jekyll, as captured in William Nicholson’s portrait.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Corona Pandemic, Gardening, Gertrude Jekyll, Lockdown Living, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tate, William Nicholson

Postcards in Isolation 8: Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988

13th June 202020th June 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie reflects on the seminal work, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988, by Guerrilla Girls, and calls for women in the art world to be more politically engaged and active in their practise.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art History, Charlotte Burns, Feminism, Gaby Porter, Guerrilla Girls, Julia Halpern, Linda Nochlin, Lockdown Living, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Steggals, National Portrait Gallery, Postcards in Isolation, Tate

Postcards in Isolation 7: Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot III, 2009

29th May 202020th June 2020  Toni Roberts

Toni Roberts discusses how Mona Hatoum’s radiant red sculpture, Hot Spot III, 2009, has become a relevant work of art during her time in lockdown and a metaphor for our cage-like existence.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Contemporary Art, Covid-19, globalisation, Hot Spot III, installation, Lockdown Living, Mona Hatoum, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, sculpture, Tate, Tate Modern, war, White Cube

Postcards in Isolation 3: Eileen Agar, Angel of Anarchy, 1936-40

20th April 20202nd May 2020  Rochelle Roberts

In her third piece from a self-conceived series, Rochelle Roberts reflects on Eileen Agar’s Angel of Anarchy, 1936-40, a striking and evocative object that embodies current feelings of sadness, inaccessibility and loneliness.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Angel of Anarchy, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Eileen Agar, Joseph Bard, Lockdown Living, Pallant House, Patricia Allmer, Postcards in Isolation, Surrealism, Surrealists, Tate, Tate Modern

Tracing the ‘bounding line’: William Blake at Tate Britain

13th February 20206th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Dismissed in his lifetime as mad, William Blake is now lauded as a visionary genius, one whose art and poetry have influenced many generations of creatives. Shamini Sriskandarajah visits Tate Britain’s recent retrospective to find out why.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, drawing, eighteenth-century, engraving, Mythology, Tate, Tate Britain, William Blake

Nam June Paik: The Modern Shaman of the Multimedia World

2nd February 20203rd February 2020  Christina Makri

A pioneer of video art and a foreseer of communication in the age of the internet, visionary artist Nam June Paik is celebrated in Tate Modern’s latest exhibition.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Film, Fluxus, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Tate, Tate Modern, The Beatles, Video Art

Natalia Goncharova at Tate Modern

1st July 20191st July 2019  Gabriela Frost

Tate Modern’s latest retrospective of the Russian avant-garde artist, Natalia Goncharova, is a triumph of colour, style and artistic brilliance, writes our arts contributor Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Architecture, Ballets Russes, costume, Diaghilev, drawing, Matthew Gale, Mikhail Larionov, Mikhailova Art Salon, Natalia Goncharova, Natalia Sidlina, painting, Russian Folk art, sculpture, Tate, Tate Modern

The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain at Tate Britain

16th June 201916th June 2019  Jo Hemmings

Tate’s latest exhibition, Van Gogh and Britain, reveals the extent to which the artist was inspired by British culture and in turn, influenced it. In her review, Jo Hemmings asks why we’re still captivated by Van Gogh and his work.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: At Eternity's Gate, Charles Dickens, London, Loving Vincent, painting, Starry Night, Sunflowers, Tate, Tate Britain, Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf

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