TateShots show

TateShots

Summary: Welcome to TateShots, our weekly programme for art junkies everywhere. TateShots presents a selection of short videos, with a focus on modern and contemporary art. Send feedback to tateshots@tate.org.uk.

Podcasts:

 TateShots: No Lone Zone | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 201

Interviews with Cinthia Marcelle, David Zink Yi and Tercerunquinto, who all formally and thematically concerned with the intersection of history, nature and politics.

 TateShots: Damien Hirst, For the Love of God | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 181

To accompany Tate Modern’s major survey of Damien Hirst’s work, the artist’s iconic diamond-covered skull For the Love of God 2007 will be shown in the Turbine Hall.

 TateShots: Alighiero E Boetti | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 250

Alighiero E Boetti was a key member of the Arte Povera group of young Italian artists in the late 1960s which was working in radically new ways using simple materials. Here, curator Mark Godfrey, walks us around the Boetti exhibition at Tate Modern.

 TateShots: Gavin and Turk | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 236

Gavin Turk has long been interested in issues of authorship and identity; his artworks include images of himself disguised as Sid Vicious, Che Guevara and Andy Warhol amongst others.

 TateShots: Picasso and Modern British Art | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 219

A major new exhibition at Tate Britain, Picasso and Modern British Art which explores Picasso's extensive legacy and influence on British art, how this played a role in the acceptance of modern art in Britain.

 TateShots: Richard Dadd, The Artist and the Asylum | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 277

Murder, insanity and painting; the story of Richard Dadd is a fascinating one.

 TateShots: Simon Fujiwara | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 233

Simon Fujiwara's new exhibition at Tate St Ives shows him to be a master story-teller, weaving fact and fiction to compelling and powerful effect.

 TateShots: Mitch Epstein, American Power | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 231

In his photographic series ‘American Power’, Mitch Epstein investigates notions of power, both electrical and political.

 TateShots: Cornelia Parker's Folkestone Mermaid | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 272

A 38-year-old mother-of-two has been immortalised in bronze in the pose of Copenhagen's Little Mermaid by artist Cornelia Parker.

 TateShots: Jon Snow | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 327

Jon Snow, Channel 4 newsreader and passionate watercolourist, walks us around the Watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain.

 TateShots: Desmond Morris on Joan Miró | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 212

Zoologist and tv presenter Desmond Morris achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book The Naked Ape, exploring human behaviour. He is also known as a surrealist painter and exhibited alongside Joan Miró.

 TateShots: Peter Kennard studio visit | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 227

Shocking, haunting and unsettling, the photomontages of Peter Kennard live long in the memory.

 TateShots: Audio Arts | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 306

One man, a tape recorder and a line-up of incredible artists from all over the world.

 TateShots: Vito Acconci | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 278

Pioneer of performance art, Vito Acconci talks about three ground-breaking actions he staged at the Sonnabend Gallery, New York in January 1972.

 TateShots at the Venice Biennale 2011: Thomas Hirschhorn at the Swiss Pavilion | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 186

In this short film Ben Lewis grapples with the meanings behind the Pavilion created by the controversial Swiss artist, Thomas Hirschhorn.

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