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Thomas Hirschhorn – Flamme Éternelle | TateShots
Flamme Éternelle at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. For 52 days artist Thomas Hirschhorn will live in the exhibition he has created, inviting 200 French writers, poets and philosophers to share their work with the public. Find out more about...
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Daughter – Smother (Live at Tate Britain) | TateShots
Haunting music amidst the ruins in this intimate performance by the band Daughter. 'Whether its an abandoned man-made structure or a human body, everything will eventually be accepted back into the earth, however cold and brutal it once...
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Matisse Live from Tate Modern: Trailer
Coming to a cinema near you, a live broadcast of the Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition at Tate Modern At this one-off cinema event, you are invited to enjoy an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of this blockbuster exhibition Tuesday...
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Hilary Spurling on Matisse | TateShots
'For all of the painters I knew when I was young, Matisse was a god' says Hilary Spurling. Hilary Spurling, Whitbread award-winning biographer of Henri Matisse, invites TateShots into her London home to explain how she came to realise...
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Iris Apfel Dresses for Matisse
Fashion icon Iris Apfel turns up the colour as she styles herself after Matisse. Interior designer and fashion doyenne, 92-year-old Iris Apfel draws inspiration from Matisse's Cut-Outs to create a series of wonderful outfits in homage to...
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Vija Celmins – 'Painting Takes Just a Second to Go In' | TateShots
'The thing I like about painting is that it takes just a second for the information to go in', says Vija Celmins, 'and you can explore and analyse that later.' Born in Latvia in 1938, Vija Celmins is best known for her intricate,...
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Exploring the Surreal with Peter Capaldi | Unlock Art | Tate
Need some help getting to grips with Surrealism? The Doctor will see you now. Peter Capaldi, a former art student, and the latest actor to play Doctor Who, settles down on Freud's couch to deliver his wry take on the Surrealist movement....
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Phyllida Barlow – 'Sculpture as a Restless Object' | Tate Britain Commission
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow unveils her largest and most ambitious work to date at Tate Britain. For over four decades Phyllida Barlow has made imposing, large-scale sculptural installations using inexpensive, everyday materials such as...
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Kiki Smith – 'I Make Things to Experience the Process' | TateShots
'I don't question my impetus...I just do it and see what happens,' says artist Kiki Smith. From her home in New York, which also serves as her studio, Kiki Smith talks about the ongoing experimentation that drives her art, from the...
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Great Double Acts with The Kills | Unlock Art | Tate
Rock band The Kills jump on a tandem to explore the art of collaboration. Rock duo Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart, know a thing or two about creative partnership. Challenging the popular myth that art is made by solitary, angst-ridden...
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Lorna Simpson – 'Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire' | TateShots
Old sports photographs and hair commercials provide inspiration for American artist Lorna Simpson. The artist uses combinations of image and text to examine the processes through which meaning and understanding take place. Here Simpson...
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Christian Boltanski – Studio Visit | TateShots
'All my life I have tried to fight against the fact of dying' says artist Christian Boltanski. At his studio in Paris, four video cameras are rigged to film constantly, day and night. Boltanski has struck a deal with a professional...
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Ruin Lust
Art and the lure of the ruin. Ruin Lust, an exhibition at Tate Britain from 4 March 2014, offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of ruins in art from the seventeenth century to the present day, featuring work...
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Cally Spooner – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room
A second chance to watch Cally Spooner's performance of 'And You Were Wonderful, On Stage' captured live 27 February 2014 at Tate Modern. Following her live musical at Tate Britain, And You Were Wonderful, On Stage, the second part of...
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Victor Burgin | TateShots
"There's no point in making any more images", says artist and writer Victor Burgin. "There are already enough photographs in the world... What we need to do is re-read the images we already have." In this film, shot in Paris, Burgin...
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Richard Deacon – 'I'm a Fabricator' | TateShots
'I don't carve, I don't model. I fabricate' says sculptor Richard Deacon. Rocks, minerals, chains and a toy model of Marge Simpson's head, are amongst the hundreds of objects in Richard Deacon's studio from which he draws inspiration....
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Deimantas Narkevicius – Studio Visit | TateShots
'Going from one political formation to another is a big, radical change' says Deimantas Narkevicius. Originally trained as a sculptor, Deimantas Narkevicius began working with film in the early 1990s. His films examine the relationship...
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William Eggleston | TateShots
Known for his rich and complex images of the American South, William Eggleston is the godfather of colour photography. Though his images record a particular place at a certain point in time, Eggleston is not interested in their...
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Art + Fashion: London Fashion Week at Tate Modern
Models strut the Turbine Hall catwalk, as London Fashion Week arrives at Tate Modern London Fashion week AW14 comes to Tate Modern. Watch our fashion and art special featuring Yasmin Le Bon, Jourdan Dunn and Daisy Lowe. Designers showing...
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IK Prize 2014 Winner: The Workers
Jimmy Wales, IK Prize juror and Founder of Wikipedia, announces the winner of the 2014 Prize at Tate: The Workers for 'After Dark'. To find out more about the IK Prize, the winning project and the other shortlisted candidates, go to:...
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Margaret Harrison – Studio Visit | TateShots
Which is more shocking, a naked women astride a giant banana, or Hugh Hefner in suspenders? In this film Margaret Harrison talks about the events leading up to the closure, and her subsequent career as a feminist artist. Harrison founded...
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Where Are the Women? With Jemima Kirke | Unlock Art | Tate
Girls actress Jemima Kirke (known as Jessa Johansson in the HBO series) addresses the topic of women in art (or the lack them). She looks at the changing role of female artists in a male dominated art world over the centuries - and how...
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Faris Badwan on Paul Klee | TateShots
An artist as well as a musician, the lead singer of The Horrors finds a lot in common with Paul Klee. 'Expression can be as raw as you want it to be,' says Faris Badwan Faris Badwan feels that to look at a work by Paul Klee is akin to...
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Alison Wilding – 'All This Stuff is in the World' | TateShots
'Sometimes the material that feels wrong is the correct one to use,' says sculptor Alison Wilding Alison Wilding's works represent abstract sculpture at its best, combining a rich variety of materials, techniques and forms. Her...