Artists and the local landscape are the focus of the shop at Tate St Ives, with its wide range of books, gifts, postcards and greeting cards. We also stock jewellery, our own collectable Tate St Ives ...

This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...

Bernd and Hilla Becher have spent their life together photographing the unintended beauty that can be found in industrial structures. Michael Collins profiles the winners of 2002’s prestigious erasmus ...

The work of Emila Medková (1928–1985) is a remarkable example of surrealist documentary photography. A central member of the post-war Czech surrealist group, her images focus on the 'concrete ...

Keen to present the latest American painting to British audiences, the Tate Gallery secured a place for itself in the international tour of an impressive grouping of works drawn from the collections ...

Examining the idea of being ‘machine-like’ and its impact on the practice of automatic writing, this article charts a history of automatism from the late nineteenth century to the present day, ...

Usually, but not always, public art is commissioned specifically for the site in which it is situated. Monuments, memorials, and civic statues and sculptures are the most established forms of public ...

Louise Nevelson once noted that ‘artists are born collectors’.1 The artist herself was a life-long collector and that pastime ultimately came to inform how she worked, culminating in her monumental ...

Mousehold Heath, Norwich c.1818–20 (Tate N00689; fig.1) depicts a wide expanse of relatively featureless countryside, shown sometime towards evening on a summer’s day. While heathland plants in the ...

When Kurt Schwitters began making collages in 1918, the initial term he used to describe them was Merzzeichnungen (Merz drawings). This article considers the place of drawing in the development of ...

Focusing on the long relationship Andy Goldsworthy has had with the landscape of the Bretton Estate, the location of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Helen Pheby explores the artist’s interest in the ...

It hardly needs to be said that Barkley L. Hendricks’s portrait paintings have a timeless quality, perhaps owing to his meticulous attention to detail. Whether his subjects were painted in the 1960s, ...