Karin Hindsbo, Director of Tate Modern, said “Tate Modern has made an incredible impact in just 25 years. It has exploded 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In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date.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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Camden Town Group was composed of sixteen artists, judged by an inner core to be ‘the best and the most promising of the day’. Controversially, women were not allowed to join, though they formed ...
Fig.2 John Constable The Cornfield 1826 National Gallery, London Born into a prosperous family in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable’s early display of aptitude and passion for painting ...
No Signal take over Late at Tate Britain for a night celebrating music and creativity, inspired by The 80s exhibition Join us for a night to remember as No Signal map out a sonic atlas, era by era. We ...
The Turner Prize 2024 has been awarded to Jasleen Kaur. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced this evening at a ceremony presented by actor James Norton at Tate Britain, and broadcast live on ...
From ‘The Tenth Plague of Egypt’ exhibited 1802, JMW Turner, N00470, Tate Collection ...
While I was working on my photographic series Work Stations 1987–8, which attempted to capture the essence of office life in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, I came across paintball for the first time.
The sublime in art, it has often been suggested, starts with Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757). Before this, so the conventional narrative goes, the sublime was a notion that applied only to ...
Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) connected the sublime with experiences of awe, terror and danger. Burke saw nature as the most sublime object, capable ...