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Ella Kruglyanskaya – 'How Can I Change the Representations of Women?' | TateShots
New York-based painter Ella Kruglyanskaya (b. 1978, Latvia) creates artworks that immerse viewers in a bold world of saturated colours and high contrast patterns. Female relationships, friendships and dialogues form the foundation of the...
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Marta Minujín – 'I Believe in Magic' | TateShots
Conceptual and performance artist Marta Minujín was born in Buenos Aires in 1943 and continues to work there today. From the mid-1960s Minujín became one of the most energetic contributors to the pop art scene in Buenos Aires. Throughout...
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Pablo Bronstein – Historical Dances in an Antique Setting | TateShots
Pablo Bronstein is known for his interest in pre-20th century European design and architecture and for creating often satirical performances which fuse modern and historic elements commenting on art and its place in society. Bronstein is...
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Art & Language – Conceptual Art, Mirrors and Selfies | TateShots
The collective Art & Language was founded in Coventry, England by Michael Baldwin, David Bainbridge, Terry Atkinson and Harold Hurrell in the early 1960s, and the critic and art historian Charles Harrison and the artist Mel Ramsden both...
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Harun Farocki – Cinema, Video Games and Finding the Detail | TateShots
The German film-maker Harun Farocki explored themes of capitalism, consumerism, media, technology, war and entertainment. Re-inventing the 'filmic essay', his work challenged the borders between cinema and art. Beginning his filmmaking...
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Laurie Simmons – 'I've Been a Number of Different Artists' | TateShots
In her photography work artist Laurie Simmons explores the role of women in society by placing miniature and doll-like figures in confined domestic settings. Her sharp yet lifeless characters questioned women’s restricted occupation of...
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David Lamelas – 'All I Do Is Think, All Day Long' | TateShots
Conceptual artist David Lamelas began as a sculptor in the 1960s and from there began to play with mixed mediums including performance, film and photography. His works takes conventional pop culture references and forms to subvert and...
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The Universe of Alexander Calder with Dara Ó Briain
Comedian and Theoretical Physics graduate Dara Ó Briain talks about his love of the cosmos and its connection with Alexander Calder’s mobiles. Calder’s work created a sensation in the 1930 when he took sculpture, liberated it and set it...
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Performing for the Camera – First Look
Photography has been used to capture performances since its invention – from the stars of the Victorian stage to the art happenings of the 1960s, and today’s trend for selfies. Find out more: http://goo.gl/57JdsF In this film curator...
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Felicia Browne: Unofficial War Artist | Animating the Archives
Through her archive, this film uncovers the work and untimely death of Felicia Browne, a young artist who lost her life in the first months of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. This event reverberates through the work of artist Sonia Boue,...
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Wilhelm Sasnal – 'Artist's Have to Be Active as Citizens' | TateShots
Wilhelm Sasnal is a painter, photographer and film-maker working in Kraków, Poland. Sasnal uses photographs as a starting point for his work, selecting images that he sees as open to interpretation. The artist talks to us about being a...
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Zareer Masami on Johan Zoffany | Artist & Empire
Historian Zareer Masani considers what can be learnt about British colonial life in India from Zoffany’s ‘conversation piece’. Travelling artists included established painters like Johan Zoffany, who visited India, or William Hodges and...
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Romain Mader – Performing for the Camera | TateShots
Romain Mader is a Swiss photographer who explores themes of gender-representation, loneliness and romance by creating fictional narratives within his images. His series Ekaterina was on display in Tate Modern’s Performing for the Camera...
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Gus Casely-Hayford on Fante Asafo Flags | Artist & Empire
Curator Gus Casely-Hayford looks at the origins and history of the Asafo flags, made by the Fante people of the Gold Coast of Africa, now known as Ghana. Charting, mapping and surveying oceans, coasts, land and resources were essential...
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Miranda July – 'I Began with Performance' | TateShots
Miranda July is best known for her Cannes-award winning career as a filmmaker. She began her career in performance and has continued to create across many mediums, including producing apps. In this film July explains how live performance...
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The Singh Twins on the Impact of Empire | Artist & Empire
Contemporary British artists The Singh Twins discuss the appropriation of British and Asian culture within the UK as shown in their work 'EnTWINed', a modern take on the Indian miniature tradition. Artist & Empire: Facing Britain's...
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Yinka Shonibare MBE – 'I'm the Rebel Within' | TateShots
We visit artist Yinka Shonibare MBE in his East London studio where he has created a separate exhibition space for emerging artists. The Multi-disciplinary artist grew up in Nigeria before returning to England to study Fine Art in London...
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Stuart Brisley – 'I Think I'm an Artist' | TateShots
Stuart Brisley is an artist often hailed as the 'godfather of British performance art', who has worked in a wide range of media including performance, painting, sculpture, installation, sound and film in a career spanning over 60 years....
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Loyd Grossman on Benjamin West | Artist & Empire
TV Presenter and Art Historian Loyd Grossman explores this significant history painting 'The Death of General James Wolfe' by Benjamin West and its context within the history of the Empire. Artist & Empire: Facing Britain's Imperial Past...
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Rodney Graham | Studio Visit | TateShots
Rodney Graham works across various disciplines including photography, film, performance and sculpture and is often associated with the Vancouver School. The diversity of the mediums he uses is also reflected in the multiple cultural,...
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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose | TateShots
John Singer Sargent painted Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose between 1885 and 1886. The inspiration for the painting came during a boating expedition Sargent took on the Thames at Pangbourne in September 1885, with the American artist Edwin...
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Mary Reid Kelley – Performance Room | BMW Tate Live
Mary Reid Kelley, in collaboration with her partner Patrick Kelley, presented a new work 'This is Offal', inspired by Thomas Hood’s 1844 poem The Bridge of Sighs in which the narrator laments the apparent suicide of a young woman, whose...
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Shami Chakrabarti on Pocahontas | Artist & Empire
Human Rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti considers the story of Pocahontas in response to the Artist and Empire exhibition. Artist and Empire at Tate Britain | 25 November 2015 – 10 April 2016...
