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Nicole Wermers | Turner Prize Nominee 2015 | TateShots
German artist Nicole Wermers creates sculptures, collages and installations which explore the appropriation of art and design within consumer culture. Her installation Infrastruktur adopted the glossy aesthetics and materials of...
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Janice Kerbel | Turner Prize Nominee 2015 | TateShots
Canadian artist Janice Kerbel’s operatic work DOUG takes the fictional character through nine imagined catastrophes. The character originally debuted in the form of a blog and is typical of Kerbel’s use of conventional modes of narrative...
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Abraham Cruzvillegas on Mexico City – 'It's Something Alive' | Artist Cities
Abraham Cruzvillegas explains how his practice of autoconstrucción evolved from the contradictory and precarious elements of life which give the city a new shape every day. The city and environment in which an artist lives and works...
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Timeline of Modern Art
Visit Tate Modern to explore the Timeline of Modern Art. Visitors to the Clore Welcome Room, Level 0 at Tate Modern can explore the story of art from 1900 to the present day with the Timeline of Modern Art. The 6.5-metre-long digital...
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Restitution, Recovery and Return | Lost Art
Susan Freeman’s uncle Rudolf Epstein fled to England from Vienna during the outbreak of the Second World War. In his belongings was a print of the library of his great-aunts revealing many of the paintings confiscated by the Nazis when...
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Ai Weiwei on Beijing – 'A Prison For Freedom of Speech' | Artist Cities
The city and environment in which an artist lives and works naturally influences their ideas, practice and form. Here we focus on Beijing and its most famous formerly detained resident, Ai Weiwei. Artist Cities is a new series...
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Mary McCartney on Frank Auerbach
Artist Frank Auerbach has made some of the most vibrant, alive and inventive paintings of recent times. His depictions of people and the urban landscapes near his London studio show him to be one of the greatest painters alive today....
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Antony Gormley on London – 'How Things Have Changed' | Artist Cities
The city and environment in which an artist lives and works naturally influences their ideas, practice and form. In this episode, sculptor Antony Gormley remembers his early years squatting in various buildings across North London and...
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Tony Cragg – 'Be There, See It, Respond to It' | TateShots
Tony Cragg is one of Britain's leading sculptors. Born in Liverpool in 1949, Tony's love of the natural world as a child was the catalyst for a lifelong fascination with material and form. In this film he talks through the process of...
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How to Cast Like Whiteread | Tate
You can cast just about anything. For this how to, inspired by Rachel Whiteread’s use of domestic objects, we cast a light bulb. Watch the film to learn about making and casting with a two-part mould. If the film leaves you feeling...
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Sheba Chhachhi – ‘Alter the Balance of Power’ | TateShots
Meet the New Delhi-based artist, photographer, writer and activist, Sheba Chhachhi. Chhachhi’s ‘desire to offer an alternative reality’ prompted the artist to capture her worldview through the camera lens. Her work focuses on issues...
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The C C Land Exhibition: Pierre Bonnard – The Colour of Memory | Tate
Explore the work of master colourist Pierre Bonnard with Tate Curators Matthew Gale and Helen O’Malley. Together they take a closer look at The C C Land Exhibition: Pierre Bonnard at Tate Modern, and reveal his unique use of colour,...
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Sarah Lucas | TateShots
"Her work is as relevant now, as it was when it first appeared". TateShots talk to Ann Gallagher, Director of Collections at Tate Britain, about YBA Sarah Lucas, who is representing Britain in the 2015 Venice Biennale. Looking forward to...
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Sculpture Victorious at Tate Britain
Tate Britain’s exhibition Sculpture Victorious celebrates some of the most astonishing and lavish works produced in the Victorian era. Video contains flashing light. Visit the show:...
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Caroline de Maigret – Being Sonia Delaunay
Parisian model and muse Caroline de Maigret is whisked away into artist Sonia Delaunay’s world, and reimagines current day Paris in a Delaunay inspired colourful haze. Sonia Delaunay was a key figure in the Parisian avant-garde and...
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Charlie Phillips on Salt and Silver Photography | TateShots
Renowned photographer Charlie Phillips takes a look at the 'Salt and Silver: Early Photography' exhibition at Tate Britain. Charlie Phillips was born in Jamaica and moved to London in the 1950s. He grew up in Notting Hill and is widely...
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Leonora Carrington – Britain's Lost Surrealist | TateShots
Featuring rare archive footage, this short film follows Leonora Carrington’s cousin and journalist, Joanna Moorhead, exploring the artist’s story. Leonora Carrington was one of the most prolific members of the Surrealist movement. After...
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Indre Serpytyte – 'History is Never Black and White' | TateShots
The mysterious death of her father led artist Indre Serpytyte on a photographic journey through Lithuania’s history. Indre Serpytyte’s haunting photographs show models of buildings in her native Lithuania, that were places of...
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Dan Snow on Conflict, Time, Photography | TateShots
Broadcaster and historian Dan Snow introduces some of the themes of Tate Modern's new exhibition, 'Conflict, Time, Photography'. The photographs in this exhibition are a moving record of conflict. Some were taken in war zones just...
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Mr Turner and the Summer Exhibition
Discover how Mike Leigh and the team behind the new film ‘Mr Turner’ recreated scenes at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition from the time when Turner was an exhibitor there. The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free is at...
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Mr Turner and his Queen Anne Street Gallery
Join Mike Leigh and Timothy Spall for a behind the scenes look at how they brought Turner to life for the big screen. In this short video, they focus on how they recreated Turner’s Queen Street Gallery. The EY Exhibition: Late Turner –...
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Marina Abramovic: Talking Art | Tate Talks
Marina Abramović is in conversation with Iwona Blazwick. Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s Marina Abramovic is considered a major figure in performance art. She discusses her four-decade survey MOMA...
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Zaha Hadid and Suprematism | Tate Talks
A discussion between multiple award-winning architect Zaha Hadid and Achim Borchardt-Hume, Head of Exhibitions at Tate Modern and curator of Malevich exhibition. Considering Hadid’s concept of architecture and its relationship to space...
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James Richards | Turner Prize Nominee 2014 | TateShots
James Richards, a Turner Prize 2014 nominee, talks about the diverse ways of image-making as well as the original sound compositions he uses in his work, during this film shot at the Wysing Art Centre, Cambridgeshire. “I feel it has more...