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Contested Terrains – Part 2 | TateShots
'Contested Terrains' was an exhibition by four artists working in Africa. The artists featured subvert assumptions about Africa's past and present, exploring the tensions between tradition and modernity. Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji,...
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Contested Terrains – Part 1 | TateShots
'Contested Terrains' was an exhibition by four artists working in Africa. The artists featured subvert assumptions about Africa's past and present, exploring the tensions between tradition and modernity. Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji,...
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Mitch Epstein – American Power | TateShots
In his photographic series 'American Power', Mitch Epstein investigates notions of power, both electrical and political. It started with a photographic assignment for the New York Times about a coal-fired power plant in Ohio in 2003....
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How to Paint Watercolour Like Turner – Part 2: Tone
Would you like to paint like Turner? Watercolour expert Mike Chaplin, might bring you one step closer...
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How to Paint Watercolour Like Turner – Part 3: Colour
Would you like to paint like Turner? Watercolour expert Mike Chaplin, might bring you one step closer...
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How to Paint Watercolour Like Turner – Part 1: Line
Would you like to paint like Turner? Watercolour expert Mike Chaplin, might bring you one step closer...
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Taryn Simon – 'We're All Ghosts of Another Time' | TateShots
American photographer Taryn Simon talks about her Tate Modern exhibition, 'A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters'. Simon mixes photography and text in a series works that chart family bloodlines. At the heart of each group of...
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Mike Nelson at the Venice Biennale 2011 | TateShots
For this year's coverage of the Venice Biennale, we sent art critic Ben Lewis to find out the hottest artists and shows in the exhibition. In this short film he meets British artist, Mike Nelson. Find our more about Mike Nelson:...
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Thomas Hirschhorn at the Venice Biennale 2011 | TateShots
In this short film Ben Lewis grapples with the meanings behind the Pavilion created by the controversial Swiss artist, Thomas Hirschhorn. Find out more about Thomas Hirschhorn: https://goo.gl/DP4DxL
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Jon Snow on Watercolour | TateShots
Jon Snow, Channel 4 newsreader and passionate watercolourist, walks us around the 'Watercolour' exhibition at Tate Britain. Snow picks out his favourite works in the show and tells us what he finds so fascinating about the medium.
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Desmond Morris on Joan Miro | TateShots
Zoologist and tv presenter Desmond Morris achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book 'The Naked Ape', exploring human behaviour. He is also known as a surrealist painter and exhibited alongside Joan Miró. He tells TateShots about the...
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Peter Kennard – Studio Visit | TateShots
Shocking, haunting and unsettling, the photomontages of Peter Kennard live long in the memory. For the past four decades Peter Kennard has consistently challenged power structures and injustice, from his anti-nuclear works of the 1980s...
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Watercolour at Tate Britain | TateShots
This week we take a look at Tate Britain's groundbreaking Watercolour exhibition, with Project Leader Alison Smith. The most ambitious survey of watercolour ever staged, with works spanning 800 years, the show celebrated the many...
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Albert Irvin at Tate Stores | TateShots
This week's TateShots sees the painter Albert Irvin visit the Tate Stores facility, where the artwork in the Tate's collection that is not currently on show is kept. Albert talked to TateShots about three of his paintings; 'Flodden', 'St...
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Tony Oursler – Studio Visit | TateShots
TateShots met Tony Oursler shortly after the opening of a solo show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York. Oursler, who describes his work as a physical embodiment of a thought, took us on a tour of his studio, showing us what inspires...
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Simon Fujiwara | TateShots
Simon Fujiwara's exhibition at Tate St Ives showed him to be a master story-teller, weaving fact and fiction to compelling and powerful effect. As a child, he lived in Carbis Bay, just a mile from St Ives, and his recent artworks explore...
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Denzil Forrester – ‘You Have to Find Your Niche’ | TateShots
Inspired by London’s urban life and the reggae music of the West Indies, artist Denzil Forrester’s work from the 1980s captures the vibrant East End nightlife with dynamic colour and movement. His 1982 painting 'Three Wicked Men' was...
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Isabel Lewis – 'A 21st Century Ritual' | TateShots
Isabel Lewis is a Dominican-American performance artist and musician. As part of the BMW Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights, Lewis hosted a number of her signature occasions, combining music, food, drink and perfume to create an...
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Celebrating Women Artists at Tate
Filmmaker Jenn Nkiru showcases some of the female artists on display in the Tate Collection to celebrate International Women’s Day in her short film featuring Zinzi Minott. Over 100 women artists are on display at the Tate. Come and find...
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Donald Rodney – A Practice Unfolding l Animating the Archives
A look through Rodney’s complete sketchbook collection, considering how the books reflect both his personal concerns and the politics of race and representation in Britain between 1982-1998. Explore the full collection of Rodney’s...
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Yang Fudong – 'I Paint with a Camera' | TateShots
Yang Fudong took up film and photography in the later 1990s, having studied painting at the China Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou. His work brings together references to China's cultural traditions, with a close observation of what makes...
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Who is Wolfgang Tillmans?
From intimate still-lifes and portraits, to images that address vital political issues, discover the photographs of Wolfgang Tillmans. German-born, international in outlook and exhibited around the world, Tillmans spent many years in the...
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John Baldessari – Pure Beauty | Tate
In the late 1960s John Baldessari was part of a group of West Coast American conceptual artists whose work was characterised by a deadpan wit. Based in Los Angeles since, he has become one of the most influential artists of his...
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Marina Abramović | Think Like an Artist | TateShots
Some wise words on art and creativity from the mind of Marina Abramović. While discussing the motivation and process behind her art Marina Abramović imparts some helpful advice on making and confronting your own work. Taken from her...