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New Young Pony Club | TateShots
TateShots invited the band New Young Pony Club to walk around the gallery and find a work of art that would inspire them to write a track. They picked a neon light sculpture by British artist Martin Creed. The band's founding members...
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Linder on Art and Punk Rock | TateShots
British artist Linder Sterling talks about art and punk rock. The artist is probably best known for the record sleeve she designed for Orgasm Addict by the Buzzcocks (1977), showing a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning...
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Nathan Coley | Turner Prize Nominee 2007 | TateShots
'There will be no miracles here', reads the illuminated signboard in Nathan Coley's section of the Turner Prize exhibition. It's one of a number of works Coley presented which explored the idea of faith in an era of moral uncertainty. He...
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Ulla von Brandenburg – A Living Picture | TateShots
Ulla von Brandenburg is interested in the idea of the 'tableau vivant', or 'living picture'. Popular in the nineteenth century, the tableau vivant was a combination of fine art and theatre, with live models carefully posed and lit in a...
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Mark Wallinger | Turner Prize Winner 2007 | TateShots
Mark Wallinger's contribution to Turner Prize 2007 was Sleeper (2004-05), a film of a performance in which, over a period of 10 nights, he dressed in a bear suit and wandered aimlessly around an art gallery in Berlin, startling...
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Matei Bejenaru | TateShots
In 'Together', artist Metei Bejenaru shows the many faces of Romania. Matei Bejenaru put out a call to fellow Romanian nationals, asking them to gather as a crowd outside Tate Modern to take part in a public performance. Here he...
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Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth | TateShots
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo discusses why she split the turbine hall floor. Her new work Shibboleth is a long snaking fissure that ran the vast length of the Turbine Hall, as if striking to the very foundations of the museum....
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Mika Rottenberg – Mary's Cherries | TateShots
Mika Rottenberg's mesmerising video installations are humorous and surrealistic. In Mary's Cherries (2005) three female wrestlers take part in a bizarre production line, turning red painted fingernails into maraschino cherries....
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Grayson Perry at the Turner Prize Retrospective 1984-2006 | TateShots
Grayson Perry was the surprise winner of the Turner Prize in 2003. Accepting his award dressed as his alter-ego Claire he commented: 'I think the art world had more trouble coming to terms with me being a potter than my choice of...
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Turner Prize Retrospective 1984-2006 | TateShots
Art critic and former Turner-Prize judge Louisa Buck on the best of the Turner Prize. Tate Britain mounted a retrospective of all the previous winners since the prize began in 1984. Subscribe for weekly films about art:...
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Alex James on Ellsworth Kelly | TateShots
Alex James, Blur's bassist, on the relationship between Ellsworth Kelly, a good Pop song and Albert Einstein. Find out more about Ellsworth Kelly: https://goo.gl/ouDf6w Subscribe for weekly films about art:...
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Cloud-Spotting at Tate Britain | TateShots
A cloud-spotter's guide to painting. Gavin Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and author of The Cloudspotter's Guide. Applying his spotter's eye to the Tate Collection he extols the joys of clouds in art, from...
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Antony Gormley – Studio Visit | TateShots
Antony Gormley takes us on a tour of his studio. Designed in collaboration with the architect David Chipperfield, this converted warehouse just north of King Cross manages to accommodate hanger-like rooms, where teams of assistants work...
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Peter Blake at Tate Liverpool | TateShots
Peter Blake takes us around his retrospective at Tate Liverpool. Blake is often described as the godfather of British Pop art, and at the core of his work is an ever-present fascination with the world of popular culture and...
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How We Are: Photographing Britain | TateShots
People have been using photography to capture images of life in Britain since the invention of the medium. This exhibition takes a snapshot of the country over the past 150 years, and includes both forgotten curios and established...
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Roll Deep on Anish Kapoor | TateShots
Tate invited East London grime collective Roll Deep to write a track about one of the artworks on show at Tate Modern. They chose Anish Kapoor's sculpture Ishi's Light. Two of the group talked to TateShots about their creative process....
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Humberto Vélez – The Fight | TateShots
The Fight is a boxing, music and dance performance conceived by Panamanian-born artist, Humberto Vélez. More than 100 amateur boxers from South London boxing clubs took over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for a series of bouts in the ring,...
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Matthew Briand and Prue Lang | TateShots
Artist Mathieu Briand and choreographer Prue Lang persuade the public to don masks and lose their inhibitions as they take part in a 'flash-mob' style performance for Tate Modern's Long Weekend, as part of their performance: Did you ever...
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Francis Alÿs – The Last Clown | TateShots
Belgian artist Francis Alÿs talks about his work The Last Clown (1995-2000), an installation that comprises animation, drawings and paintings all depicting the same incident: a man tripping over a dog in a park. Alÿs explains how this...
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Actions and Interruptions | TateShots
What happens when a group of performance artists go undercover at Tate Modern? Artists Dora García, Jiří Kovanda, Roman Ondák, Mario Garcia Torres, Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund explore the way visitors behave in a museum, subtly...
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Richard Wentworth | TateShots
British artist Richard Wentworth climbs a skyscraper to pay tribute to London's skyline, and explains why he finds inspiration in city life. Wentworth's art has taken the diverse forms of photography, sculpture, installation, walks and...
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Derek Jarman | TateShots
The experimental Super-8 films that Derek Jarman began making in the 1970s are rarely shown. James Mackay, who later produced some of Jarman's feature films including The Garden (1990) and Blue (1993), agreed to open up his archive of...
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Contemporary Art from China at Tate Liverpool | TateShots
TateShots investigates contemporary art from China. Tate Liverpool's latest exhibition aims to convey the sheer diversity, confidence and ambition of art being made in China today. Artists include Yang Fudong, Xu Zhen, Ai Weiwei and...
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Toby Litt on Francis Bacon | TateShots
Toby Litt offers a personal view of Francis Bacon's painting Figure in Movement 1985. Litt is a London-based writer, whose books include Corpsing, deadkidsongs , Exhibitionism, Finding Myself, and most recently Hospital, described by one...