TateShots

Hear the experts explain how Robert Rauschenberg blazed a new trail for art in the second half of the twentieth century.

Ewa Partum’s famous Active Poetry installation was inspired by Marcel Proust and the typeface of public signs in Communist Poland.

Some wise words on art and creativity from the mind of Marina Abramović.

Printer and developer Adrian Ensor invites us into his dark room to discover the secrets of the gelatin silver process.

Boris Mikhailov was born in Kharkov, Ukraine and came to prominence in the 1990s. His work often focuses on the politics of everyday life during the Soviet era and its aftermath.

David Hockney, one of the most popular and influential British artists of the twentieth century, reflects on over 60 years of painting, drawing, printmaking and photography.

Black Mountain College was a highly influential school founded in North Carolina, USA, in 1933 where teaching was experimental and committed to an interdisciplinary approach.

Susumu Koshimizu is a Japanese artist known for making sculptures that expose the surface quality of different materials

Cécile B. Evans’s Tate Liverpool commission Sprung a Leak is a multi-dimensional work featuring two humanoid robots and a robot dog performing in the gallery.

Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen moved to Newcastle in 1969 after attending art college in London she has stayed there ever since working and photographing the city and its people.

Illustrator, filmmaker and comic book artist Dave McKean tells us about the influence of Paul Nash on his own work

Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey returns to Liverpool to talk about his video piece ‘Dream English Kid’.

Drawing on art historical, political and personal references, Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure the complexity of contemporary experience.

Louise Nevelson collected materials discarded on New York City streets to make her dark and textured sculptures.

Artist John Gerrard uses sophisticated digital technology to recreate eerie Amercian landscapes