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L. S. Lowry | TateShots
'Lowry is Britain's preeminent painter of the industrial city' says Tate curator Helen Little, as she introduces the exhibition 'Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life'. For Lowry, modern painting needed to represent the remaining rituals...
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1840-1890 | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week, Alison Smith explores the period 1840-1890 This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
On the eve of a major retrospective at Tate Modern, Gerhard Richter talks about his life and work with Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate.
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Graciela Iturbide – 'I Take Photos of What Surprises Me' | TateShots
Whether capturing Frida Kahlo's house, wild dogs in India or the Seri people in Mexico's Sonara desert, artist Graciela Iturbide presents the world in black in white - or as she describes it, as 'an abstraction of the mind.' Travelling...
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1780-1810 | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week, Greg Sullivan explores the period 1780-1810. This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art
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Life Drawing with Eileen Hogan – Masterclass
Warning: Contains nudity In both her teaching and her painting, Eileen Hogan considers the way that stories underlie how we see. Since her extensive training at Camberwell School of Art, the Royal Academy, and the Royal College of Art,...
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Life Drawing with Derek Boshier – Masterclass
Warning: Contains nudity Most readily known for his Pop art, painter Derek Boshier has worked in many media, and continues practice as primarily a narrative figurative painter. Now living in Los Angeles, Boshier experienced the rigour of...
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Mavis Cheek & Antonio Carluccio on Patrick Caulfield | TateShots
Writer Mavis Cheek discusses Patrick Caulfield's painting After Lunch and food writer and cook Antonio Carluccio recollects recreating one of Caulfield's painting in real life. Both share their memories of the artist with Tateshots in...
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1760-1780 | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week, Greg Sullivan explores the period 1760-1780. BP Walk through British Art
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Life Drawing with Bill Woodrow – Masterclass
Warning: Contains nudity Bill Woodrow has dedicated the past four decades to rethinking themes of intersections and transformations. His work has examined the uneasy relationships between humans and the natural world, as well as the...
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Life Drawing with Christopher Le Brun – Masterclass
Warning: Contains nudity Christopher Le Brun is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. A graduate of the Slade and Chelsea Schools of art, his work makes patent his strong attachment to the imagery and emotional address of Romanticism and...
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1730-1765 | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week Tim Batchelor explores the period 1730-1765. This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art
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Gary Hume – Studio Visit | TateShots
'I only get pleasure [while painting] if there is a problem, and when I solve that problem I need to make another one' says Gary Hume. Part of the internationally celebrated group of 'Young British Artists' that studied at London's...
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1650-1730 | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week Tim Batchelor explores the period 1650-1730. This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art
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Ed Ruscha – The Tension of Words and Images | TateShots
Ed Ruscha began his career as a layout artist at a Los Angeles advertising agency in the late 1950s. He has continued to draw on this background, producing works that demonstrate an ongoing interest in typography, signage and the West...
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1540-1650 | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week Tim Batchelor explores the period 1540 - 1650. This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art
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Liu Ding – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
A second chance to watch Liu Ding’s performance of Almost Avantgarde captured live Thursday, 16 May, 2013 at Tate Modern. Performance Room is a series of performances commissioned and conceived exclusively for the online space....
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Linder – The Ultimate Form | TateShots
This new dance performance by the artist Linder was inspired by Barbara Hepworth's monumental sculpture The Family of Man. Linder's performance' 'The Ultimate Form', is choreographed by Kenneth Tindall of Northern Ballet and the artist...
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Tate Britain Highlights | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Penelope Curtis selects some highlights from Tate Britain's displays and considers how new visual dialogues have been created through juxtapositions of art work created at the same point in time, but in very different styles. This is...
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Saloua Raouda Choucair – From Beirut to Tate Modern
Saloua Raouda Choucair is famous in Lebanon for bringing abstraction to the Middle East. A rare female voice in the Beirut art scene from the 1940s onwards, she has spent her career combining western abstraction with the traditions of...
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Meet 500 Years of British Art | TateShots
Curator Chris Stephens introduces Tate Britain's new displays. This May a completely new presentation of the world's greatest collection of British art opens at Tate Britain. For the first time, visitors can experience the national...
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Charles Atlas and Collaborators – BMW Tate Live
Charles Atlas is best known for his groundbreaking work in collaboration with choreographers and performers like Merce Cunningham, Michael Clark, Yvonne Rainer, and Leigh Bowery. In this film he presents a new version of MC9 (2012), a...
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Roy Lichtenstein | TateShots
Roy Lichtenstein is one of the foremost pop artists. In 2013 Tate Modern's blockbuster exhibition, 'Lichtenstein: A Retrospective' brought together 125 of his most definitive paintings and sculptures and reassesed his enduring legacy. It...
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Julian Opie's Landscapes | TateShots
'I tried to see how it would be possible to draw a landscape that was not a landscape, but a period of landscape,' Opie tells TateShots, as he describes the process of creating his large-scale wall painting 'There are hills in the...