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Laibach – Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde | TateShots
Slovenian music and cross-media group Laibach -- describing themselves as 'engineers of human souls' -- present a multi-media show recreating moments key from their history in the early 1980s to today. This film shows highlights of...
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Patrick Keiller | TateShots
Patrick Keiller is best known for his series of film essays, London 1994, Robinson in Space 1997, and Robinson in Ruins 2010, in which a fictional, unseen scholar Robinson undertakes exploratory journeys around England, prompting him to...
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Mark Francis on Tate Britain
Mark Francis, the debonair socialite, reality television star and art enthusiast, leaves his stomping ground of Chelsea for Tate Britain to talk about two works of art in Tate's collection that resonate and reveal a little of who he is...
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Frank Bowling – From Figuration to Abstraction | TateShots
Frank Bowling studied at the Royal College of Art with David Hockney and Derek Boshier. Bowling's shift from Figuration to Abstraction came when he moved from London to New York. Here, Bowling looks back over his long career and explains...
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Lauren Laverne on Tate Britain
This is Britain: The Home of British Art Presenter Lauren Laverne picks two works from the BP British Art Displays at Tate Britain, as she explores the difficulties of being a muse.
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No Lone Zone | TateShots
Interviews with Cinthia Marcelle, David Zink Yi and Tercerunquinto, who all formally and thematically concerned with the intersection of history, nature and politics. 'No Lone Zone' is a military term designating an area where, for...
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Damien Hirst at Tate Modern | Tate
Damien Hirst takes us through his exhibition at Tate Modern with curator Ann Gallagher. Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated Freeze, an exhibition in a disused warehouse which showed...
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Damien Hirst – For the Love of God | TateShots
To accompany Tate Modern's major survey of Damien Hirst's work, the artist's iconic diamond-covered skull 'For the Love of God' (2007) was shown in the Turbine Hall.
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Mat Collishaw – Studio Visit | TateShots
How does an artist begin, and what form does inspiration take? Mat Collishaw lets us into his studio as his latest artworks - mutant, syphilitic flowers, and a depiction of hell, rendered as a 3D zoetrope - start to take shape.
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Alighiero E Boetti | TateShots
Alighiero E Boetti was a key member of the Arte Povera group of young Italian artists in the late 1960s which was working in radically new ways using simple materials. Here, curator Mark Godfrey, walks us around the Boetti exhibition at...
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Tate Modern Curator, Catherine Wood on Performance Art
Tate curator, Catherine Wood talks about seminal moments in the history of performance art. BMW Tate Live: Jérôme Bel online-only LIVE performance, 20:00 GMT, Thurs 22 March
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The Frugal Repast – English National Ballet in Residence at Tate Britain
Duveen Galleries 27 February -- 4 March 2012 English National Ballet brings Tate Britain's Picasso & Modern British Art exhibition to life with ballet classes, participatory workshops, rehearsals, performances and the opportunity to draw...
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Kinder Aggugini – English National Ballet in Residence at Tate Britain
Duveen Galleries 27 February -- 4 March 2012 The fashion designer Kinder Aggugini has been commissioned by the English National Ballet to create the costumes for the 'The Rite of Spring'. We follow behind the scenes of the ballet to take...
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Gavin Turk - Authorship and Identity I TateShots
Gavin Turk has long been interested in issues of authorship and identity; his artworks include images of himself disguised as Sid Vicious, Che Guevara and Andy Warhol amongst others. In his exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London,...
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Charline von Heyl – 'I Want to Activate the Viewer' | TateShots
Distinctive, imaginative and always surprising, German painter Charline von Heyl’s work offers a fresh and exciting approach to the world of abstract art. Curator Gavin Delahunty and the artist herself take us around the exhibition...
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Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room | TateShots
Artist Yayoi Kusama's interactive Obliteration Room begins as an entirely white space, furnished as a monochrome living room, which people are then invited to 'obliterate' with multi-coloured stickers. Over the course of a few weeks the...
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Picasso's Three Dancers – English National Ballet in Residence at Tate Britain
Duveen Galleries 27 February -- 4 March 2012 English National Ballet brings Tate Britain's Picasso & Modern British Art exhibition to life with ballet classes, participatory workshops, rehearsals, performances and the opportunity to draw...
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Barbara Hammer – 'Active Cinema is its Own Experience' | TateShots
Barbara Hammer is a pivotal figure in American experimental film. An acclaimed pioneer of queer cinema, her prolific output includes the earliest avant-garde films that openly address lesbian life and sexuality. #TateShots Subscribe for...
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Picasso and Modern British Art | TateShots
A major exhibition at Tate Britain, 'Picasso and Modern British Art' explored Picasso's extensive legacy and influence on British art, and how this played a role in the acceptance of modern art in Britain.
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Richard Dadd – The Artist and the Asylum | TateShots
Murder, insanity and painting; the story of Richard Dadd is a fascinating one. Nicholas Tromans, author of 'The Artist and the Asylum', heads behind the scenes at both the Tate and Cambridge's Fitzwilliam museum to tell us the tale of...
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Yayoi Kusama – Obsessed with Polka Dots | Tate
The nine decades of artist Yayoi Kusama’s life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating...
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Neville Gabie – Olympic Artist in Residence 2012 | TateShots
Neville Gabie is the artist-in-residence for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Pedro Cabrita Reis | TateShots
Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis creates installations that revolve around themes of architecture and of memory of place. He is known for his use of industrial materials, and for highlighting the process of construction, joining...
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John Martin | TateShots
John Martin has been called the father of modern cinema, his epic paintings of apocalyptic destruction were the blockbusters of their time. For Tate Britain's John Martin exhibition this dramatic, proto-cinematic effect has been enhanced...