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Wolfgang Tillmans – 'What Art Does in Me is Beyond Words' | TateShots
We spend the day with artist Wolfgang Tillmans in his Berlin studio as he prepares for his Tate Modern exhibition. German-born, international in outlook and exhibited around the world, Wolfgang Tillmans spent many years in the UK and is...
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Picasso’s Nude Woman in a Red Armchair | TateShots
Tate’s conservation team investigate whether Picasso completed this painting in a day. The back of the canvas of this Picasso painting is inscribed with the words ’Boisgeloup 27 Juillet 1932’ leaving some experts to question whether the...
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Ewa Partum – ‘It's the Obligation of Every Woman to be a Feminist’ | TateShots
Ewa Partum’s famous Active Poetry installation was inspired by Marcel Proust and the typeface of public signs in Communist Poland. Ewa Partum (born 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland) is a conceptual and performance artist and...
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Printing in the Dark Room | TateShots
Adrian Ensor has been developing and printing photographs in his London dark room for over forty years. He has worked with artists such as Hamish Fulton and Richard Long as well as more recently printing his own photographs. After...
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Teresa Margolles – Fabric, Blood and Honour | Fresh Perspectives | Tate Collective
Can art act as a memorial for lost citizens? Teresa Margolles’s Flag I, 2009, honours civilians from Mexican drug wars. Watch Zenisha from Tate Collective London presents her perspective on this powerful artwork. Tate Collective London...
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Barbara Kruger – Consumerism, Power and the Everyday | Fresh Perspectives | Tate Collective
How can art reflect the power of branding and advertising in the everyday? Barbara Kruger’s Who Own’s What?, 2012, blurs the boundaries between art and commerce. Watch Jessye from Tate Collective London presents her perspective on this...
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Andy Warhol – Celebrity, Social Media and Overexposure | Fresh Perspectives | Tate Collective
What’s the connection between social media and Pop Art? Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych, 1962, explores celebrity, death and exposure. Watch Josh from Tate Collective London presents his perspective on this iconic artwork. Tate Collective...
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Boris Mikhailov – 'Photography Was a Way Out' | TateShots
Boris Mikhailov was born in Kharkov, Ukraine and came to prominence in the 1990s. His work often focuses on the politics of everyday life during the Soviet era and its aftermath. In Red 1968-75, Mikhailov depticts life in and around...
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Rebecca Horn – Body Extensions and Isolation | Fresh Perspectives | Tate Collective
Can art help us overcome loneliness and isolation? Rebecca Horn’s In The Triangle, 1973-4, connects people and their environment. Watch Joey from Tate Collective London present her perspective on this performative artwork. Tate...
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The Radical Eye with Sir Elton John and Nicholas Serota
Sir Elton John and Nicholas Serota take a tour of The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection in a gallery walkthrough at the Tate. Made up of over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from...
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Black Mountain College – 'A School Like No Other' | TateShots
Black Mountain College was a highly influential school founded in North Carolina, USA, in 1933 where teaching was experimental and committed to an interdisciplinary approach. The college’s progressive principles were based on the...
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David Hockney – ‘I Like to Live in the Now’ | TateShots
David Hockney is one of the most popular and influential British artists of the twentieth century. Here he reflects on over 60 years of painting, drawing, printmaking and photography. David Hockney – Exhibition at Tate Britain:...
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Cildo Meireles – A Tower That Could Reach the Heavens | Fresh Perspectives | Tate Collective
How many languages can a sculpture speak? Cildo Mereiles’s Babel, 2001, explores an ancient myth about the origin of language. Watch Tariq from Tate Collective London presents his perspective on this towering artwork. Tate Collective...
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Sir Elton John’s Modernist Photography Collection – A Home Tour
Sir Elton John introduces us to his passion for collecting and his Modernist Photography collection which he lives with, in a home tour. Made up of over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from seminal figures including...
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Dave McKean on Paul Nash – 'The Trenches Completely Changed Him' | TateShots
Influential illustrator, comic artist, filmmaker, musician Dave McKean (Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, Grant Morrison’s Arkham Asylum, Luna) new’ comic book Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash is a uniquely original exploration of the life,...
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Exploring Sketchbooks | Animating the Archives
Tate Archive holds hundreds of artists sketchbooks, many of which can now be viewed online. This film reveals how for young and established artists, their sketchbook are a creative space for thinking, trying out ideas, making mistakes -...
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Cécile B. Evans – 'We Live in a Really Unique Moment Now' | TateShots
Cécile B. Evans’s Tate Liverpool commission 'Sprung a Leak' is a multi-dimensional work featuring two humanoid robots and a robot dog performing in the gallery. 'Sprung a Leak' 2016 explores the movement of data, artificial intelligence,...
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Susumu Koshimizu – My Sculptural Expression | TateShots
Susumu Koshimizu is a Japanese artist known for making sculptures that expose the surface quality of different materials. He is considered a key member of the Mono-ha movement (‘School of Things’), which reacted against the embrace of...
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Cecilia Knapp Responds to Henry Moore’s Mask
To celebrate this year’s National Poetry Day, poet and performer, Cecilia Knapp responds with an original piece to Henry Moore’s Mask. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl
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Philippe Parreno – ‘It’s a Half-Mechanic, Half-Organic Machine’ | TateShots
In October 2016, Philippe Parreno transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an immersive experience, challenging visitors' perception of time and space with his Anywhen installation. Anywhen was a site-specific exhibition that changed...
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Mark Leckey – 'I Wallow in the Mire of Nostalgia' | TateShots
Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey returns to Liverpool to talk about his video piece ‘Dream English Kid’. Mark Leckey was born in Birkenhead outside Liverpool in 1964 and graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1990. ‘Dream English...
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Paul Nash – War, Surrealism and British Landscapes | Tate
Art historian James Fox explores the life and art of British Surrealist Paul Nash through his fascination of the British Landscape. Paul Nash was captivated with Britain’s ancient past and spent time in southern England exploring the...
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Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen – 'You Always Reveal Yourself in the Pictures' | TateShots
Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen moved to Newcastle in 1969 after attending art college in London she has stayed there ever since working and photographing the city and its people. Konttinen works both as a photographer and a...
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Helen Marten | Turner Prize Winner 2016 | TateShots
Helen Marten presents a series of works from nominated projects Lunar Nibs at the 56th Venice Biennale and Eucalyptus Let Us In at Greene Naftali, New York. Using sculpture, screen printing and writing Marten produces works that are full...