Sir Richard Julian Long, (born 2 June 1945) is an English sculptor and one of the best-known British land artists. Long is the only artist to have been short-listed four times for the Turner Prize. He ...

Plaster is conventionally seen as merely a means to create a model from which a more durable and more valuable metal cast can be made. As this essay explores, however, it offered Moore new and ...

Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...

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 ...

Dorothea Tanning in front of her 1998 painting Quiet-Willow Walk Photograph by Steve Moss ‘It can safely be said,’ Dorothea Tanning wrote in her memoir, Between Lives, ‘that during this last century ...

You can use a paintbrush if you don't want to use feathers. What other materials could you use to make patterns on the paper? You don't need to be on the beach to create this artwork. Use water in ...

The artist uses the costumes and props in this display to create joyful, humorous and chaotic performances A Tax Haven Run By Women is an installation of sculptures and costumes made by Chetwynd that ...

Exhibition catalogue published by Working Press, London, on the occasion of the exhibition held at City Gallery, Leicester, March 1992; Oldham Art Gallery and Museum, April 1992; and Cartwright Hall, ...

YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND celebrates the work of artist and activist Yoko Ono (born 1933). The exhibition explores Ono’s conceptual practice, foregrounding ideas over objects, alongside her ongoing ...

It was in the spring of 1949 that Mr. Niarchos began to form this remarkable collection. In less than a decade, therefore, he has gathered together a group of paintings and sculpture, mainly of the ...

Tate Library's holdings include more than half a million publications on British art since 1500, and international art since 1900: catalogues, books, journals, ephemera, and electronic resources, as ...