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Turner and the Masters – Turner's Passion
Turner and the Masters opens 23rd September 2009 at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk/britain Music by Sound Designers Anonymous www.illanon.com
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Michael Landy – Joyous Machines | TateShots
The exhibition 'Joyous Machines' at the Tate Liverpool focused on the connection between the work of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), and British artist Michael Landy, who has been significantly influenced by Tinguely and his constructive and...
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The Dark Monarch at Tate St Ives
Cultural commentator and exhibition co-curator Michael Bracewell welcomes us to Tate St Ives for The Dark Monarch, a show that explores the influence of folklore, mysticism, mythology and the occult on art in Britain. In this film,...
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Bruce McLean – Studio Visit | TateShots
TateShots visited the studio of Scottish performance artist and painter Bruce McLean, as he put finishing touches to work for an exhibition at the Bernard Jacobson gallery, London. His 1971 performance 'Pose Work for Plinths' is regarded...
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Cosey Fanni Tutti – 'All My Work is from Life' | Sound & Vision | TateShots
In this film, interspersed with live footage from her bands Throbbing Gristle and Chris and Cosey, artist and musician Cosey Fanni Tutti talks about her distaste for decorative art and how her music is all about emotion. Cosey is the...
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Keren Cytter – 'Everybody Likes Revolution' | TateShots
We speak to Keren Cytter and members of her dance company D.I.E at Tate Modern, November 2009. 'History in the Making or the Secret Diaries of Linda Schultz' is a new live theatre piece by Israeli artist Keren Cytter, created in...
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Rob Pruitt's Christmas Flea Market | TateShots
American artist Rob Pruitt brought his Holiday Flea Market to Tate Modern in the run up to Christmas. First staged in New York in 1999, the event started as a novel way to curate a group exhibition, with artists selling wares such as...
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Mat Collishaw at the Freud Museum | TateShots
TateShots caught up with artist Mat Collishaw at the Freud Museum in Finchley, North London, where visitors are being treated to a series of his elaborate interventions. Set amongst the curiously preserved environment of Sigmund Freud's...
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Lydia Lunch – 'I'm a Confrontational Artist' | Sound & Vision | TateShots
New York-born Lydia Lunch is a singer, poet, writer, actor, visual artist, and the fourth subject of our Sound & Vision series. In this film, featuring excerpts from her live performances, she talks about how Goya and Marcel Duchamp are...
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Sunil Gupta – Mr Malhotra's Party | TateShots
Indian-born artist Sunil Gupta showed two photographs from his series Mr Malhotra's Party at Tate Modern's Street & Studio exhibition. The pictures depict gay men on the streets of Delhi where homosexuality is still illegal and...
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Mark Haddon on Jean Dubuffet | TateShots
Author and artist Mark Haddon, best known for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, came to Tate Modern to look at one of his favourite paintings: The Busy Life 1953 by Jean Dubuffet. This work belongs to a series...
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Bringing Performance Art to Life with Frank Skinner | Unlock Art | Tate
Comedian and art enthusiast Frank Skinner explores performance art and its origins; from dada and surrealism through to Yoko Ono and Joseph Beuys. Unlock Art is Tate's new short film series, offering a witty inside track on the world of...
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Miyako Ishiuchi – 'Photographs are a Created Reality' | TateShots
'This city was not real, but created by my photography', says Miyako Ishiuchi. The artist's work offers a radical vision of post-Hiroshima Japan, focusing on the alienation and disaffection characterising urban life. In 'Yokosuka Story'...
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Melanie Smith – 'Mexico City is Visually Intense' | TateShots
Melanie Smith shows us Mexico City where she lives and works, a city which has had a profound effect on her artistic practice. Smith feels the contrast between where she comes from and where she lives now permeates throughout her work,...
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George the Poet Inspired by Paul Graham
A new Tate Britain is unveiled on 19 November 2013. To celebrate we're asking leading figures from the worlds of poetry, cooking, fashion, film, photography, music and comedy to share the creative processes behind their own work,...
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John Hegley Inspired by CRW Nevinson
A new Tate Britain is unveiled on 19 November 2013. To celebrate we're asking leading figures from the worlds of poetry, cooking, fashion, film, photography, music and comedy to share the creative processes behind their own work,...
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Scroobius Pip Inspired by the Chapman Brothers
A new Tate Britain is unveiled on 19 November 2013. To celebrate we're asking leading figures from the worlds of poetry, cooking, fashion, film, photography, music and comedy to share the creative processes behind their own work,...
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Is Comedy Art? | Hangout on Air
This is an archived version of the 'Comedy Meets Art' Hangout On Air that took place on 24 September, 2013 at Tate Britain. The performer and comedian Doon Mackichan, performance artist Bedwyr Williams, and Tate curator Martin Myrone,...
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2000s | Meet 500 Years of British Art
Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week, Helen Little explores the year 2000. Part of the series: BP Walk through British Art
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Harry Hill on Tate Britain
We invited Harry Hill to come up with alternative captions for some of Tate Britain's best loved paintings. Who knew art history could be so much fun! See more here:...
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Meschac Gaba – Studio Visit | TateShots
This episode of TateShots is the first of our new 'Global Studios' films which take you on studio visits around the world. As well as opening up their studios to our film crew, each participating artist will be responding to questions...
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Isy Suttie – 'Dear Mother' at Tate Britain
Comedian Isy Suttie writes and performs at Tate Britain in this short film 'Dear Mother'... Find out what happens in the gallery after Tate shuts its doors? See more here:...
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Adam Buxton at Tate Britain
Adam Buxton spares no mercy as he unleashes the hilarious Monty Buggershop-Hooty in an encounter with some masterpieces of British art. See more here:...
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Rose Wylie – 'I Like Big Work' | TateShots
Artist Rose Wylie takes inspiration for her paintings from film, literature and even the scraps of newspaper articles on her studio floor. Often arranging her large-scale paintings in book formation, so that they take on the angles found...