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Laura Bailey on Dante Gabriel Rossetti | TateShots
Model Laura Bailey goes head to head with Rossetti's famous femme fatale 'Lady Lilith', and discusses the endurance of Pre-Raphaelite symbols in contemporary fashion photography.
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Daido Moriyama – In Pictures | Tate
Daido Moriyama uses an ordinary compact camera and never stops shooting. The artist is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. In this film Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes...
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William Klein: In Pictures
An exclusive interview with photographer William Klein and a first-ever glimpse behind the scenes at his Paris studio. 'Almost everything is coincidence and luck and chance.' William Klein is one of the twentieth century's most important...
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Pre-Raphaelites: John Everett Millais – Isabella
Curator Jason Rosenfeld reveals the story behind John Everett Millais's painting Isabella and explains why this historical work is inherently modern. Millais's Isabella is one of over 150 works currently on show at Tate Britain in the...
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Anna Calvi Inspired by Peter Doig
This is Britain: The Home of British Art Anna Calvi performs live in the galleries of Tate Britain, inspired by her favourite painting by Peter Doig in the Tate collection.
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Anna Calvi Inspired by JMW Turner
Anna Calvi performs live in the galleries of Tate Britain, inspired by her favourite painting by J.M.W Turner in the Tate collection.
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Don McCullin – 'I Hate Being Known as a War Photographer' | TateShots
Don McCullin is recognised as one of the most important living photographers. He has covered events of global importance, including the Vietnam and Biafran wars, for The Observer and other publications since the 1960s. Subscribe for...
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Boris Charmatz – Flip Book | The Tanks
Boris Charmatz is a French dancer and choreographer, celebrated for his experimental and radical approach to contemporary dance. For this performance in the Tanks at Tate Modern, Charmatz charts the pioneering avant-garde choreography of...
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Liverpool Biennial 2012 | TateShots
The Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the UK. Now in it's 7th year, the Biennial takes over the city of Liverpool for ten weeks, hosting an extraordinary range of artworks, performances and a...
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AK Dolven on Edvard Munch | TateShots
Norwegian artist AK Dolven pays hommage to her countryman Edward Munch Munch's paintings have been a source of fascination and inspiration for many contemporary artists. AK Dolven tells TateShots that "As a Norwegian you are born with...
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Jeff Keen – Gazapocalypse | The Tanks
Jeff Keen was a pioneer of experimental film, using multi-screen projections, collages, animations and performances to transform cinema into an intense, kaleidoscopic experience. A veteran of the Second World War, Jeff Keen's work...
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Undercurrent | The Tanks
Undercurrent, structured and developed for and by young people, is a series of events, installations and interventions by audio, visual, digital and performance artists. Including performances from Hetain Patel and Leo Asemota, the...
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Edvard Munch | TateShots
Curator Nicholas Cullinan introduces Tate Modern's Edvard Munch exhibition, and explains how the artist's fascination with new technologies influenced his paintings Few modern artists are better known and yet less understood than Edvard...
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Bruce Davidson's London | TateShots
Acclaimed Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson discusses coming to London for the first time from his native New York, and the impact that the city had on his work. Since his early teenage years in the 1940s when he took his camera out on...
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Ei Arakawa | The Tanks
New York-based Japanese artist Ei Arakawa creates a series of collaborative performances and actions during his week residency at the Tanks, Tate Modern. In this film, we meet the artist whose work takes inspiration from the Jikken Kobo...
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Tania Bruguera – Surplus Value | The Tanks
Through her on-going art project 'Immigrant Movement International', Cuban artist Tania Bruguera explores questions surrounding immigration - how an immigrant is defined as such and what it means to be a citizen of the world. Her new...
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This is Britain: Adam Buxton
This is Britain: The Home of British Art Take a jaunt through the collection at Tate Britain with your host Monty Buggershop-Hooty (Comedian, Adam Buxton), stopping on the way to look at William Beechey's Portrait of Sir Francis Ford's...
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Lewis Baltz | TateShots
Since the late 1960s, US photographer Lewis Baltz has been making images relating to the modern industrial and suburban landscape. He talked to TateShots. US photographer Lewis Baltz came to prominence in the 1970s as a leading figure in...
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Lis Rhodes – 'An Opposition to Commercial Cinema' | The Tanks
This film contains flashing images | Artist Lis Rhodes is a major figure in the history of artists' film-making in Britain and was a leading member of the influential London Filmmakers' Co-op. Lis Rhodes' installation, 'Light Music',...
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Suzanne Lacy – 'The Invisibility of Older Women' | The Tanks
On 10 May 1987 in Minneapolis, 430 women over the age of 60 gathered to share their views on growing older. The resulting performance, 'The Crystal Quilt', was broadcast live on television and attended by over 3,000 people. The artist,...
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This Exquisite Forest | TateShots
'This Exquisite Forest' represents a new form of artistic collaboration, involving established artists, cutting-edge technology and an online creative community. TateShots was at the launch to find out more. This Exquisite Forest, a...
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Dorothy Bohm – 'Photography is Central to My Being' | TateShots
Prussian-born photographer Dorothy Bohm invites us into her London home as she discusses her life and work. After fleeing to England as a child at the outset of the Second World War, photographer Dorothy Bohm studied photography at a...
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Eddie Peake | TateShots
London-based artist Eddie Peake talks about the process behind his new performance. Peake’s ‘bodies’ become both sculptural and sexual objects via choreographed actions, encouraging the audience to give in to voyeuristic desire. Peake...
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Olafur Eliasson – Little Sun
Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic artist who created the weather project at Tate Modern in 2003, brings a new project to Tate Modern this summer. Developed over the last two years, Little Sun is a work of art that brings...