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Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon | TateShots
When Damien Hirst was a kid, he says, 'All my paintings were like bad Bacons'. We invited Damien to Tate Britain to see the Francis Bacon retrospective. He tells us why he loves the Crucifixion and Head series': detail that vanishes the...
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Byron Kim – Studio Visit | TateShots
Byron Kim is a painter born in California, who lives and works in Brooklyn. He invited us to his studio where he works quietly on a range of paintings primarily concerned with colour. Here he shows us a number of works in progress --...
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Cory Arcangel – Computer Art | TateShots
TateShots met Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery, New York, where he showed us around his exhibition Adult Contemporary. Arcangel uses the term 'computer nerd' hesitantly, but his work certainly appeals to our inner-geek. There's his modified...
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Jeff Koons – 'Art is a Vehicle of Acceptance' | TateShots
Watch an interview with artist Jeff Koons in his New York studio. There are not many places on earth where paintings of Popeye mingle with giant lobsters, or where a team can scheme to hang a full-sized train from a crane. But as this...
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Cildo Meireles | TateShots
Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles at Tate Modern -- the artist's first UK retrospective. His work is characterised by a high degree of interactivity, as well as recurring motifs of barriers, fencing and mesh. For a special event, Meireles...
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Bonnie Camplin and Paulina Olowska in The Tanks | TateShots
Laying dormant under the ground adjacent to Tate Modern's turbine hall, the mammoth Oil Tanks are now a key part of the plans to develop the building over the next five years. As a prelude to the building work, Tate invited artists...
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Jim Dine | TateShots
A painter, sculptor, photographer, illustrator, performance artist and poet, Jim Dine is arguably one of the most prolific artists working today. In 2009 he took TateShots on a tour of his exhibition at Pace Wildenstein, New York, a...
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Lawrence Weiner – Studio Visit | TateShots
A New Yorker born and raised, Lawrence Weiner’s mission in life is to get straight to the point. It’s a quality you cannot miss in his artwork, in which big ideas are communicated using the minimum of words. In 2009 he showed TateShots...
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Marcel Dzama – Studio Visit | TateShots
Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for producing small watercolour and pen and ink drawings, like those represented in the Tate collection. For this reason, TateShots was surprised to find him in a studio lot in Brooklyn, co-directing...
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Marina Abramović – Presence, Energy and Endurance | TateShots
Marina Abramović talks about her passion for Performance Art. Marina Abramović is, to many people, the definitive performance artist. Her works test the limits of the human body, and even the endurance of audiences who may witness...
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Marcus Coates | TateShots
For this film, we went bird-watching with the artist Marcus Coates. His new video, 'The Plover's Wing' (2008), was on at Tate Britain during the Tate Triennial 2009, so it seemed apt. Coates knows a lot about birds, he can mimic their...
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Jean-Pascal Florien and Julien Bismuth | TateShots
A performance on the River Thames by Jean-Pascal Florien and Julien Bismuth. On a rare, almost miraculously sunny day in London, TateShots and a group of art lovers boarded a boat and sailed out onto the Thames. We were there to see a...
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Soweto Kinch | TateShots
The Altermodern exhibition at Tate Britain accompanied by a 'sonic trail' by MC Soweto Kinch. Tate Britain invited jazz MC and saxophonist Soweto Kinch to help them produce a 'sonic trail' around works from the Collection and the current...
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David Hockney Answers Your Questions | TateShots
For a new series, the legendary David Hockney invited us into his studio for a chat. But in a twist, it wasn't TateShots asking the questions. Instead, we got you, loyal viewers, to do the hard work for us via the medium of Twitter. Is...
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Angus Fairhurst | TateShots
Remembering the art and humour of Angus Fairhurst. Angus Fairhurst, who died in 2008, created art that was funny, quietly complex, and which eschewed a 'signature style'. An exhibition at the Arnolfini in Bristol gave the public the...
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Nigel Cooke – 'New Accursed Art Club' | TateShots
'New Accursed Art Club' (2007) by Nigel Cooke is a new addition to the Tate Collection. When the artist came in to our conservation department recently, he took time out to show us how the painting was made. By taking photographs at...
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Miriam Elia – A Therapy Session for Unhappy Artworks | TateShots
We invited comedian Miriam Elia to present a personal take on the Rodchenko & Popova exhibition at Tate Modern. The result is this sketch. As Miriam explains: 'Shapes featuring in Russian Constructivist paintings often suffer from...
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Glenn Brown | TateShots
The inspiration for Glenn Browns extraordinary paintings lies in the art of appropriation. In his hands printed images taken from books or postcards, old masters and science fiction illustrations undergo audacious transition; they become...
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A Response to Dominique Gonzales-Foerster | TateShots
In Dominique Gonzales-Foerster's 2009 installation for Tate Moderns Turbine Hall - 'TH.2058' - the artist imagined Tate Modern 50 years hence. Part of the Unilever Series. Tate launched a competition, inviting people to respond to her...
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Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova | TateShots
Tate Modern's 2009 exhibition explored the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova, who sparked a revolution in Russian art. The Constructivists challenged the idea of the work of art as a unique commodity, and believed that it...
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Anthony d'Offay on Andy Warhol | TateShots
The collector and gallerist Anthony dOffay talks to TateShots about his memories of working with Andy Warhol. Doffay recently gave 725 works of art to be shared between the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland. His collection will...
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Robert Morris – Bodyspacemotionthings | TateShots
Interactive art was a new concept when the exhibition Bodyspacemotionthings first went on show at the Tate in 1971. Created by the American artist Robert Morris, it consists of a series of beams, weights, platforms, rollers, tunnels and...
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This Way Up
A videoed Boxbot performance made by some of the participating artists during The Long Weekend at Tate Modern.
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Robert Morris Interactive Installation at Tate Modern (Trailer)
This film shows a re-creation of Tate Gallery’s first fully interactive exhibition, Bodyspacemotionthings, by American artist Robert Morris, which took place in 1971. The original performance inspired a huge media and public interest,...