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Learn about the lives of artists and the stories behind their work
Highlights
- Conserving Frames Discover how picture frames at Tate are looked after
- 5 Women Artists' Stories Step inside the artist's studio with Tate Kids and students from St Stephen’s Primary School
- The Case of the Missing Painting Watch Tate's teams make an exciting discovery during the restoration of an Arthur Devis painting
- How to Create an Art-Inspired Garden Learn top gardening tips from the Head Gardener at Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
Meet the Collection Artists
- Who is Yoko Ono? Meet this artist, musician and activist
- Julianknxx – 'I listen with openness and find poetry' Meet the artist who explores new ways of looking to the past through performing memories, gathering stories and re-creating family fictions
- Sammy Baloji – "These images became like testimonies" Meet the artist documenting hidden histories of Congo through photographic archives
- Who is Petrit Halilaj? Meet the artist who creates colourful worlds full of imagination
Art in the collection
- Nak Bejjen Khadija Saye2017
- Recollect Winifred Nicholson1973
On display at Tate St Ives Part of Modern Art and St Ives - Dageraad From the Air Donald Locke1978–9
On display at Tate Britain Part of Modern and Contemporary British Art - Simmering Sam Gilliam1970
- Alter-Ego Isaac Witkin1963
- Three Young Women Natalia Goncharova1920
On display at Tate Modern Part of Media Networks - ID Crisis Zanele Muholi2003
View by appointment - Red and Yellow Image : 1958 Patrick Heron1958
View by appointment - Cat Gwen Johnc.1904–8
- Fighting Fire with Fire Sarah Lucas1996
- The Wedding R.B. Kitaj1989–93
On display at Tate Britain Part of Modern and Contemporary British Art
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Get Creative
- Art Outside: The Beach Go on a sensory journey through your local park
- Quiz: Design Your Own Piece of Moving Art Ever seen a sculpture that moves? Have a go at making your own!
- How to Paint Like Bowling Ever wondered how Frank Bowling creates dazzling, dripping compositions of colour? Find out with our step by step guide
Create and share your own masterpiece
Listen
- Where Does Inspiration Come From? Fly under the radar, explore creative spaces, and discover the importance of drawing a sheep
- Women in Revolt! Podcast A 6-part mini-series exploring art, activism and the women’s movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s
- The Art of Remembering What happens when people are forgotten and histories are erased?
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Dig Deeper
- Agony Artist: Dear Mx Mavis Introducing Mx Mavis, Tate Etc.’s resident ‘agony artist’. In the first of a new series, they help solve some of the problems troubling our readers. Submit your own question for the next issue!
- Mari Katayama We talk to the artist about beauty, soft sculptures, and her self-portraits that are newly on display at Tate Modern
- Tate Research Centre: Learning Promoting research, knowledge exchange with the aim of informing practice in the field of learning in galleries
- Breaking News Mário Macilau hopes his poetic photographs of workers on a waste site in Maputo, Mozambique give a voice to the voiceless