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Yangjiang Group's Fireworks | TateShots
To mark the opening of Tate Liverpool's exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, the Yangjiang Group staged a 'fireworks battle' in the docks. The work is called 'If I Knew the Danger Ahead I'd Have Stayed Well Clear' and involved £50,000...
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Dan Graham on John Martin | TateShots
Artist Dan Graham on the paintings of John Martin. He explains why Martin could be considered a science-fiction painter, and why his apocalyptic visions have particular resonance for American society today.
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Thomas Hirschhorn | TateShots
Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn discusses what it means to be an artist, and why art is a tool to confront the times in which we're living. Hirschhorn is represented in Tate's Collection by Drift Topography 2003, a sculpture in which...
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Anthony McCall – Line Describing a Cone | TateShots
This film captures a recent presentation of Anthony McCall's ground-breaking 1973 work, Line Describing a Cone. Testing the boundaries between cinema and sculpture, the work takes the form of a projected white dot that slowly grows to...
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The Materials Library | TateShots
Please Do Touch: The Materials Library pays a visit to Tate Modern.
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Matt Mullican | TateShots
Matt Mullican under hypnosis. His work explores the way in which hypnosis alters behaviour and seems to expose what lies behind the façade of identity. The symbols and shapes that he paints during the performance are a visual...
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Martin Rowson on William Hogarth | TateShots
Cartoonist Martin Rowson takes to the streets of London in pursuit of the Hogarth's satiric genius.
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Vivan Sundaram on Amrita Sher-Gil | TateShots
An exhibition at Tate Modern looked at the paintings of Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941), who's been called India's Frida Kahlo. Sher-Gil was just 28 when she died but was already recognised as one of India's most important artists. In this...
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Adam Chodzko at Tate St Ives | TateShots
Adam Chodzko takes us on a tour of his show at Tate St Ives. Amongst the pieces on show are a pair of hiker's walking sticks containing a hidden compartment for vials of ecstasy (bringing new meaning to the notion of nature and the...
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Street Art – Walking Tour | TateShots
Tate Modern invited a group of Madrid-based street artists to make work in the streets surrounding the gallery. In this film we follow the artists as they respond to the challenge. With inflatable tongues, modified shop signs and...
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Alison Knowles – 'I'm Making a Giant Salad' | TateShots
American artist Alison Knowles first made a salad in the name of art at London's ICA Gallery in 1962. 'Make a Salad' is what the Fluxus artists termed an 'event score', a written instruction that can be acted out and changed according to...
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Gustav Metzger – Festival of Missed Fits | TateShots
Gustav Metzger's career has spanned sixty years of art and political activism. He pioneered Auto-Destructive art and famously held an 'art strike' between 1977-1980. He was also involved in the radical Fluxus movement. In 1962 his simple...
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Martin Creed's Work No. 850 | TateShots
Work No. 850 consists of runners dodging visitors as they sprint through the gallery as fast as they can. It happens every thirty seconds, jolting this normally serene space for an instant. In this interview, Martin tells us about some...
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Juergen Teller – Studio Visit | TateShots
Photographer Juergen Teller turned his lens on the fashion industry with his Go-Sees series in 1999. Weary of the hype generated by model agencies desperate to sell him the 'next big thing', he decided to take the picture of every girl...
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Cy Twombly at Tate Modern | TateShots
Tate's Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern, as he makes the final adjustments to the hang just before opening. A long-standing fan, Serota talks about Twombly's...
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Paula Rego at the Curwen Studio | TateShots
We was invited to observe Paula Rego and the team at The Curwen Studio in Cambridgeshire as they set about turning one of her drawings into an editioned print. Our film captures Rego at work and she tells us why drawing and printmaking...
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at the Venice Biennale 2007 | TateShots
Surveillance technology, robotics and computers all feature in the work of Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. As you enter the exhibition space, overhead cameras track your movements, triggering a reaction -- in one room rows...
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Francis Bacon at Tate Britain | TateShots
Chris Stephens, curator of the Francis Bacon exhibition at Tate Britain introduces the show, 11 September 2008 - 4 January 2009
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Mark Rothko at Tate Modern | TateShots
In 2008/09 Tate Modern presented an exhibition of the late works of Mark Rothko. The show's curator, Achim Borchardrt-Hume, takes us on a tour featuring the iconic Seagram Murals, Black-Form paintings, and the Black on Grey paintings --...
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Michael Landy – Drawing Portraits | TateShots
How Michael Landy made a day job out of drawing. In his vast, virtually empty studio, in London's East End, the artist Michael Landy has been hard at work. Seven days a week for the last five months he has obsessively committed himself...
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Peter Saville on Richard Hamilton | TateShots
Peter Saville works as a designer and artist, and is the Creative Director of the City of Manchester. It was in Manchester, while working at Factory Records, that he produced iconic record sleeve designs for bands like Joy Division and...
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Runa Islam and Mark Leckey | Turner Prize Nominees 2008 | TateShots
In our second Turner Prize programme, art critic Nick Hackworth reviews the art of Runa Islam and Mark Leckey, who both work primarily with film. Islam deconstructs the language of cinema using techniques such as slow motion and...
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Altermodern Explained by Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud previews his hypothesis that postmodernism is over and that a new type of modern - the altermodern - is emerging. Read Bourriard's manifesto on Tate's website:...
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Jacques Herzog on Tate Modern | TateShots
Herzog and De Meuron have been behind some of the world’s most spectacular buildings – from Beijing’s Olympic Stadium to the original Tate Modern nearly a decade ago. In 2016 Tate Modern's ambitious new extension opened to the public....