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Allen Jones on Roy Lichtenstein | TateShots
Roy Lichtenstein and Allen Jones were not just significant figures in the story of Pop Art, they were also close friends. Here, Jones remembers what captivated him when, as a young British artist in New York, he first encountered the...
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Zarina Hashmi – 'My Work is About Writing' | TateShots
Artist Zarina Hashmi left India in 1958. Around the same time, her family were subject to relocation from Delhi to Karachi following the partition of India and Pakistan. Consequently exile and the loss of the family home are embedded in...
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Lisa Milroy – Studio Visit | TateShots
Lisa Milroy invites us into her East London studio and talks about her long-standing love affair with paint. Milroy first gained recognition in the 1980s for her stylised paintings of inanimate objects, such as shoes, doorhandles, and...
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Kurt Schwitters' Portraits | TateShots
Whilst interned in a camp during the Second World War, and in his later life in Britain, Schwitters made hundreds of portraits to earn a living. Choosing to leave Germany in 1937 after his work was condemned as 'degenerate' by the Nazi...
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Simon Starling's Phantom Ride | TateShots
For the Tate Britain Commission 2013, Simon Starling has created a film called Phantom Ride which explores the history of the Duveen Galleries and revisits some of the artworks which have been installed there. Using motion control...
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Haroon Mirza – Studio Visit | TateShots
Haroon Mirza plays cardboard records, samples African drummers, and pays hommage to house music in his art Haroon Mirza creates sculptural soundscapes by drawing on an eclectic range of sources, from music to the speaking voice. Work can...
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Contemporary Responses to Kurt Schwitters | TateShots
Fictional Grandparents and an office designed by Frank Lloyd-Wright feature in two contemporary artists' responses to Kurt Schwitters. Artists Adam Chodzko and Laure Prouvost were commissioned to make new works in response to the legacy...
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William Scott and abstraction | TateShots
Tate St Ives marks the centenary of William Scott (1913-89), one of the leading British painters of his generation, with the first major show in the UK for over 20 years. Curator Chris Stephens presents the exhibition highlights, and...
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Suzanne Lacy – Silver Action | BMW Tate Live
Artist Suzanne Lacy invited hundreds of older women to celebrate their roles in some of the greatest political protests of our time. Hundreds of women over the age of sixty participated in artist Suzanne Lacy's performance 'Silver...
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Roy Lichtenstein – Diagram of an Artist | Tate
Roy Lichtenstein is renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots. This film brings together archival footage of Lichtenstein at home and at work in his studio,...
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Peter Fraser | TateShots
Photographer Peter Fraser shows us around an exhibition of his work at Tate St Ives. Fraser has been at the forefront of colour photography as a fine art medium since the early 1980s, emerging alongside peers including Martin Parr and...
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Rasheed Araeen – Zero to Infinity | TateShots
In Zero to Infinity the spectator sees an inanimate structure come to life. First performed in 1968, Zero to Infinity, by Rasheed Araeen was restaged in The Tanks at Tate Modern in 2013. Consisting of one hundred bright blue...
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Allen Jones – Studio Visit | TateShots
Allen Jones is best known for sexually provocative sculptures like Chair, 1969, which present the female figure as a piece of furniture. Tate Shots visited him at his London studio to find out how he progressed from painting and drawing...
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A Bigger Splash – Painting After Performance | TateShots
'How does painting relate to performance art?' A Bigger Splash at Tate Modern takes a look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting since 1950, featuring works by artists as diverse as David Hockney, Jackson Pollock,...
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Across the Board – Otobong Nkanga and Nástio Mosquito | The Tanks
This film features highlights from the event Politics of Representation, at The Tanks on November 24, 2012. The event featured work by artists Otobong Nkanga and Nástio Mosquito. Across the board is a project which invites local and...
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Quentin Blake – Studio Visit | TateShots
'I want everything I do to look spontaneous. It's not that I think illustration should necessarily be like that, but this is what I can do,' says Quentin Blake. This interview marks Tate Publishing's recent collaboration with the...
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Sir Terry Frost | TateShots
Terry Frost's artistic career began in a Prisoner of War camp, where he met and was taught by artist Adrian Heath. It was the start of a journey that would see him become one of the most important British painters of his generation....
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Ibrahim El-Salahi – Studio Visit | TateShots
Artist Ibrahim El-Salahi discusses his work 'Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams 1' 1962-3, a large-scale oil painting recently acquired by Tate. TateShots recently visited Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi in his Oxford studio. In 2013...
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Elizabeth Price | Turner Prize Winner 2012 (Award)
Elizabeth Price is the winner of the 2012 Turner Prize. Here we see the excitement of the announcement on the awards night at Tate Britain, 3 December 2012. In the 2012 Turner Prize exhibition Price is presenting her video installation...
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Juan Downey – Plato Now | The Tanks
Juan Downey (1940-1993) was a Chilean artist whose innovations in video, sculpture and interactive performance encouraged reflection on perception and the self. Drawing together advances in technology with an interest in the rituals of...
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Ian Hamilton Finlay – Little Sparta | TateShots
Ian Hamilton Finlay's greatest work is arguably Little Sparta, the garden he created outside his home in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. In 1966 Finlay and his wife, Sue, moved to the hillside farm of Stonypath, and set about...
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Filmaktion | The Tanks
Filmaktion was a loose-knit group of British filmmakers who worked and performed together in the early 1970s. Endorsing a more active, participatory experience of cinema, they re-imagined the possibilities for film projection as a live...
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Pre-Raphaelites: William Morris' Bed
Tate curator Alison Smith presents details of the Morris-family craftsmanship behind creating William Morris' bed, and in particular the artistic contribution of his youngest daughter May Morris.
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Dia Al-Azzawi – Studio Visit | TateShots
Dia Al-Azzawi is one of Iraq's most influential living artists. Having moved to the UK in 1976, Al-Azzawi found that by viewing Iraq from afar, he could understand more about Iraqi and Arabic culture than if he had remained. Al-Azzawi's...