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Moby at Tate Modern | TateShots
Moby, king of ambient electronic music, had a childhood fantasy of being left alone in a museum after hours. TateShots made it reality, with a late night tour of Tate Modern. Moby talks about the impact art has on his music, and picks...
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Dorothy Cross – Virgin Shroud | TateShots
Irish artist Dorothy Cross explains how she made her 'Virgin Shroud', by stitching together a cow-hide, complete with udders, and her grandmother's old wedding dress. The extraordinary sculpture that resulted is a favourite in Tate's...
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Bob and Roberta Smith | TateShots
Artist Bob and Roberta Smith talks to TateShots about slogans for life, and introduces the paintings that the Tate now has in its collection. Bob and Roberta Smith is in fact just one person, otherwise known as British artist Patrick...
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Mike Nelson | Turner Prize Nominee 2007 | TateShots
Mike Nelson's labyrinthine installations, made of interconnecting corridors and chambers, are intentionally disorientating. In his new work for the Turner Prize, the corridors contain peepholes through which we spy four, mirrored rooms....
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Bill Viola – Ocean Without a Shore | TateShots
Bill Viola's latest video installation, Ocean Without a Shore, is presented in the atmospheric setting of the church of San Gallo, Venice. Monitors positioned on three stone altars in the church show a succession of individuals slowly...
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Terry Winters – Studio Visit | TateShots
TateShots visited the Matthew Marks gallery to see Terry Winters' exhibition, 'Knotted Graphs'. The energetic, brightly coloured paintings on show at the gallery are in contrast with the quiet resonances and 'economical' mark-making that...
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William Blake | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week, Martin Myrone explores the work of William Blake. This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art
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Daisy Lowe on Christina Rossetti | TateShots
Model Daisy Lowe explores the role of Christina Rossetti as a Pre-Raphaelite muse and also as a creative force in her own right. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde - Tate Britain: Exhibition - 12 September 2012 -- 13 January 2013
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Ai Weiwei on New York City | TateShots
In this weeks Tate Shots, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei talks about the time he spent as a young man living in New York and the 10,000 photographs he took documenting his life and the city. The film was shot and edited by the director Alison...
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Peter Lanyon | TateShots
TateShots visits St Ives to look around the Peter Lanyon exhibition. Lanyon was one of the most innovative figures in twentieth-century British art and saw himself as remaking the tradition of landscape painting, using landscape to...
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Iain Sinclair on Susan Philipsz | TateShots
The eerie silence of London's financial district at the weekend inspired Susan Philipsz's first commission in the capital. Her unaccompanied voice singing Elizabethan folk songs resonates through empty streets around the Bank of England,...
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Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern
Creative, playful and inventive, Gabriel Orozco creates art in the streets, his apartment or wherever he is inspired. Born in Mexico but working across the globe, Orozco is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects,...
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Chris Ofili – No Woman, No Cry | TateShots
'No Woman No Cry' by artist Chris Ofili is a tribute to the London teenager Stephen Lawrence. The Metropolitan police investigation into his racially motivated murder was mishandled, and a subsequent inquiry described the police force as...
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Doug Fishbone – Elmina
Doug Fishbone talks about his new feature-length film Elimina, which finds the white American artist stepping into an otherwise totally Ghanaian production. Through this simple gesture of using a racially and culturally incongruous...
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The Boyle Family | TateShots
TateShots met up with the Boyle Family as they installed a new work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The 'World Series' began life at a party hosted by Mark Boyle and Joan Hills in 1968, where the guests were invited to...
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Richard Gordon – Exposed at Tate Modern
American artist Richard Gordon takes pictures of surveillance cameras in boring everyday places. We asked him what he thought it meant to be a 'voyeur', and why he says he 'doesn't care about his subjects'. Works from Richard Gordon's...
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Martin Karlsson's London – An Imagery | TateShots
To celebrate the beginning of the works for Tate Modern's new extension, Swedish artist Martin Karlsson has created a project on the 100-metre hoarding that encloses the building site. 'London - An Imagery' (2008-9) takes as its starting...
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Martin Creed – Down Over Up | TateShots
In 2010, at the world's largest arts festival in Edinburgh, former Turner Prize winner, Martin Creed was all over the city. His ballet 'Work No. 1020' was at the Traverse Theatre; he presented his new book, 'Works', during the literary...
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Mike Nelson – The Coral Reef | TateShots
Hidden behind an unassuming door in a corner of Tate Britain, Mike Nelson's 'Coral Reef' installation invites visitors to explore a parallel world. It's a claustrophobic construction of rooms and narrow corridors, each with a hint of...
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Shai Kremer – Exposed at Tate Modern
Shai Kremer explains why beauty can be more powerful than violence. Shai's work is on display in Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern until 3 October 2010. Part of a series of Exposed interviews available for...
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Laurie Long – Exposed at Tate Modern
Laurie Long on why she filmed her dates with a secret camera. Laurie's work is on display in Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern until 3 October 2010. Part of a series of Exposed interviews available for free...
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Lily van der Stokker | TateShots
TateShots went to St Ives where Lily van der Stokker was putting the finishing touches to her exhibition 'No Big Deal Thing'. The Dutch artist, based in Amsterdam and New York, produces elaborate and decorative wall drawings in a style...
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Chip Lord – Exposed at Tate Modern
American artist Chip Lord talks finding real location of the Abscam Tape scandal in a motel room, and how it inspired him to make Abscam (Framed) Chip Lord is an artist and lecturer at the University of California. His work, Abscam...
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Jonathan Olley – Exposed at Tate Modern
British Artist Jonathan Olley describes how his former job as a newspaper photojournalist lead him to discover the secret surveillance towers of Northern Ireland. Jonathan Olley is a British artist and documentary photographer. His work,...