#  @tate Tate Tate posts on YouTube about art, st ives, history, how to the most. 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Over the course of a few weeks the room was transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface. TateShots produced this time-lapse video of the Obliteration Room covering the first few weeks of its presentation at Tate Modern in [----]. It was first conceived as a project for children and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-xNzr-fJHQw) 2012-03-14T18:41Z 390K followers, 1.4M engagements "Sigmar Polke TateShots Snail juice meteor dust and potatoes. just some of the unusual materials explored by German artist Sigmar Polke. Sigmar Polke was one of the most significant German artists to emerge in the 1960s making art in a huge range of materials from painting drawing and film to potatoes snail juice and meteor dust. As an artist he responded to consumer society confronted the memory of the Nazi's and took hallucinogenic drugs. In this TateShots curator Mark Godfrey explains why he thinks Polke is "one of the most exciting and experimental artists of the last [--] years." Find out" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0GE30hI8X78) 2014-11-21T15:58Z 390K followers, 98.4K engagements "What Turner's sketchbooks tell us about his love of travel Tate For JMW Turner sketchbooks allowed him to capture the world around him while he was travelling. The books came in all shapes and sizes containing beautifully detailed watercolours and the quickest of pencil sketches as well as shopping lists medical advice and language survival phrases. These drawings often formed the basis for large scale oil paintings once he was back in his studio. To mark [---] years since JMW Turners birth Assistant Conservator Arantza Dobbels Busto lets us look inside a selection of the [---] sketchbooks in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3LJtaoFK00U) 2025-04-23T13:05Z 390K followers, 55.8K engagements "An Introduction to Performance Art TateShots Performance art relates to artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants which may be live or recorded spontaneous or scripted. In the 1960s performance was seen as fundamentally different from the art that could be collected or shown by art museums. It was live and ephemeral challenging traditional notions of art. But today performance has come to be seen as more a set of strategies available to contemporary artists one that is not inherently different from other art forms and not at all beyond what a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Z-YZ3A4mdk) 2017-09-22T16:25Z 390K followers, 468.9K engagements "Artist Agnes Martin 'Beauty is in Your Mind' TateShots Agnes Martins restrained yet evocative paintings came from her belief that spiritual inspiration rather than intellect created great work. In this film which features rare archive footage of the artist in her studio in New Mexico her art dealer and confidant Arne Glimcher remembers Martins philosophical ideas about her work and her rigorous process in developing her paintings. Tate curator Frances Morris also reveals the mathematical precision behind Martins abstract masterpieces and the intense experimentation which led to her signature" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=902YXjchQsk) 2015-06-05T17:26Z 390K followers, 647.6K engagements "Restoring Rothko Tate Filmed over [--] months this is the story behind the restoration of Mark Rothko's 'Black on Maroon'. Mark Rothko's 'Black on Maroon' [----] goes back on public view at Tate Modern on [--] May [----] following [--] months of intensive work by the Conservation team and colleagues across Tate. The painting one of the iconic Seagram murals which Rothko donated to Tate in [----] was vandalised with graffiti ink in October [----]. It has since been the subject of detailed research and restoration by the core treatment team of Rachel Barker Bronwyn Ormsby and Patricia Smithen. Over nine" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AGqAggmwyMU) 2014-05-13T07:30Z 390K followers, 594.3K engagements "How John Singer Sargent Painted Carnation Lily Lily Rose TateShots John Singer Sargent painted Carnation Lily Lily Rose between [----] and [----]. The inspiration for the painting came during a boating expedition Sargent took on the Thames at Pangbourne in September [----] with the American artist Edwin Austin Abbey during which he saw Chinese lanterns hanging among trees and lilies. Sargent began the picture while staying at the home of the painter F.D. Millet at Broadway Worcestershire shortly after his move to Britain from Paris. At first he used the Millets's five-year-old daughter Katharine as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ao12qChxaiA) 2015-11-27T13:16Z 390K followers, 346.4K engagements "Nike Davies-Okundaye: Meet the artist preserving Nigerias textile heritage Tate Step inside the Lagos gallery of Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye one of Nigerias most well-known textile artists and painters. As she guides us through her vibrant works we explore the revival of traditional art practices and meet her daughter Aina who continues the tradition of Yoruba storytelling through textiles. Through their hands we witness a living legacy of art heritage and the stories women pass down across generations. #NikeDaviesOkundaye #nigerianartist #textileart Nigerian Modernism is on view at Tate" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fsj-IIhtAgM) 2026-02-06T12:43Z 390K followers, 11.4K engagements "Mohammed Sami 'There's beauty in the question' Turner Prize [----] Tate Mohammed Sami reflects on his artistic process as he approaches a new canvas for the first time. Drawing from memories of his early life in Iraq Sami discusses the artists mindset and how everyday objects empty spaces light and shadow become vessels for a human presence to convey what is not there. By embracing ambiguity absence and repetition Sami invites viewers to always ask questions. Mohammed Sami is nominated for the [----] Turner Prize on display at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford [--] September [----] to 22" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HN8OwolwTtU) 2025-10-06T08:09Z 390K followers, 23.4K engagements "A walk through Istanbul with artist Hera Byktacyan 'What this ground remembers' Tate Artist Hera Byktayan takes us on a tour of Istanbul the city where she lives and works. Ever since a child walking has been a way for her to better understand this complex city which she describes as a "living organism". In this film we join Byktayan on her daily commute from the island of Heybeliada. Arriving in the city she explores the old district of Fatih encountering and observing paper collectors and carpet sellers Byzantine churches converted into Ottoman mosques. In a visit to her studio we see how" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I8xDx-9WZC0) 2022-12-09T07:30Z 390K followers, 37.9K engagements "Philip Guston: the restless artist painting everyday evil Tate Note: This film includes reference to racism and imagery of racist violence and the Ku Klux Klan. Philip Guston thought hard about the artist's responsibility to bear witness to the brutality of the world. Consistently changing and reinventing he sought to make work that embodies lifes complexities its beauty absurdity humour and suffering. In this short film curators Michael Wellen and Michael Raymond conservator Anna Cooper and the artist's daughter Musa Mayer recount the story of Guston's life and career as well as his restless" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IDbovOp_0zA) 2023-11-22T16:39Z 390K followers, 226.5K engagements "Rene Mati 'Born British die British' Turner Prize [----] Tate Join Ren Mati on a trip back to their hometown of Peterborough. For Mati art is therapy a way to process and question identity family subcultures faith and what it means to belong while existing in the "in-betweenness" of many spaces. Drawing on their personal history Mati reflects on a fascination with skinhead subculture and the tensions of their suburban upbringing. Mati asks what we mean by 'Britishness' thinking beyond a fixed place and towards something they carry with them everywhere. Ren Mati is nominated for the [----] Turner" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KQet8jCoqOQ) 2025-09-30T08:36Z 390K followers, 16.3K engagements "Swimming with dolphins in the Amazon 🐬 Tate Artist Emilija karnulyt reflects on swimming at the meeting point of two rivers in the Amazon a moment shaped by uncertainty dolphins and the call to immerse. #Shorts #Art #Artist #ContemporaryArt #Amazon Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio Artists Studio Contemporary Art Lecture Contemporary Artist Interview Art" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mf4d7i6zvXc) 2026-01-29T18:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "How to Print Like Warhol Tate Discover how artist Andy Warhol made his colourful and iconic silkscreen prints. From Brillo boxes and black bean soup to portraits of films stars Andy Warhol is famous for his bright and bold paintings and prints that celebrate 1960s popular culture. This style of art is called pop art. Printmaking appealed to Warhol as it allowed him to repeat a basic image and create endless variations of it by using different colours or sometimes adding paint to the printed surface. Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves Andy Warhol In [----] Warhol" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O8HB2cQm_Ag) 2018-03-14T13:00Z 390K followers, 814.1K engagements "Ever been birdwatching at Tate Britain 🦅 👀 Tate For thousands of years birds have been an enduring subject of art from representing freedom good fortune and love to symbolising bad omens We joined Assistant Curator Tim Batchelor for a journey through our free display celebrating the wonder and beauty of birds on at Tate Britain until [--] June [----]. https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/historic-early-modern-british-art/birds" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PeaqR-HDbw0) 2026-02-10T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "'The liveliness of Country' Emily Kam Kngwarray Tate Step into the world of artist Emily Kam Kngwarray an Anmatyerr woman from Alhalker Country in the Northern Territory Australia. In the 1970s she was introduced to making batiks and then started painting when she was in her seventies. Over [--] years she produced thousands of canvases and gained worldwide attention. Her work is based on deep cultural knowledge of her ancestral Country layering motifs representing the plants animals and geological features around her. Despite being held in major collections Tate Modern's new exhibition is the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2oRFAlCyw) 2025-07-08T07:35Z 390K followers, 28.4K engagements "How to Paint Watercolour Like Turner Part 1: Line Would you like to paint like Turner Watercolour expert Mike Chaplin might bring you one step closer. Art Mike Chaplin's turner publish:youtube cat:exhibitions date:24.06.2011 [----] learning watercolour channel:active Art Mike Chaplin's turner publish:youtube cat:exhibitions date:24.06.2011 [----] learning watercolour channel:active" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wce-7Mw0mtc) 2011-06-24T16:51Z 390K followers, 109.9K engagements "Cy Twombly at Tate Modern TateShots Tate's Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern as he makes the final adjustments to the hang just before opening. A long-standing fan Serota talks about Twombly's technique his relationship to Turner and how the artist now in his eighties is still producing some of the most vital work of his career. One of the most highly regarded painters working today and a foremost figure among the generation of American artists that includes Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Twombly rose to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_1m7MMXyE) 2008-09-03T13:03Z 390K followers, 234.6K engagements "Zadie Xa 'Where inspirations lie' Turner Prize [----] Tate Zadie Xas art draws on ecology science fiction Korean folk art and ancestral storytelling. Through collaboration and sensory experience she invites viewers into landscapes that feel strangely familiar yet distant transforming questions of heritage displacement and community into powerful acts of storytelling. In this short film Xa talks to us about rituals narratives and the outsider energy of never fully feeling at home. Her work channels this search for identity where myth masquerade and play open a space for erased or forgotten" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBBBX6OMck) 2025-10-13T06:09Z 390K followers, 23.5K engagements "Andy Warhol at Tate Modern Exhibition Tour Tate Although our galleries are temporarily closed we wanted to share the Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern with you. Join Tate curators Gregor Muir and Fiontn Moran as they discuss Warhol through the lens of the immigrant story his LGBTQI identity and concerns with death and religion. Meet the man behind the brand. It's a Warhol you might not know with some artworks you may not have seen before. Andy Warhol re-opens at Tate Modern on [--] July and has been extended until [--] November [----]. Book tickets via our website:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjgAd6Z-dd0) 2020-04-06T10:27Z 390K followers, 301.9K engagements "Mret nne Sara 'New strategies for life on this planet' Tate We travel to the Arctic landscapes of Spmi to meet Mret nne Sara a Smi artist from a reindeer herding family. The reindeer is a cornerstone of Smi culture which recognises the interdependence and intrinsic value of all living beings. For the [----] Hyundai Commission Sara has created a multisensory installation entitled Goavve-Geabbil. It combines hides bones and wood derived from reindeer herding practices with industrial materials sound and scent to reflect on the destruction of ecosystems and the erosion of Smi culture due to mining" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqFriolQpY0) 2025-12-22T16:26Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms at Tate Modern Tate Tate presents a rare chance to experience two of Yayoi Kusamas Infinity Mirror Rooms. These immersive installations will transport you into Kusamas unique vision of endless reflections. Infinity Mirrored Room Filled with the Brilliance of Life is one of Kusamas largest installations to date and was made for her [----] retrospective at Tate Modern. It is shown alongside Chandelier of Grief a room which creates the illusion of a boundless universe of rotating crystal chandeliers. A small presentation of photographs and moving image some on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bT7i507OnOw) 2021-12-16T16:00Z 390K followers, 319.5K engagements "Landscape painting in the age of climate crisis: why Turner and Constable still matter Tate Hear from four leading contemporary artists Bridget Riley Frank Bowling George Shaw and Emma Stibbon on why they love artists JMW Turner and John Constable and how painting the landscape can bring us closer to our personal pasts and our collective future. Turner and Constable opens at Tate Britain this November tickets are on sale now: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-and-constable Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lRgRKqeMc2k) 2025-09-01T09:15Z 390K followers, 13.6K engagements "Saodat Ismailova "We live in only one of the [-----] worlds" Tate Saodat Ismailova's films have a mysterious hypnotic quality drawing on folklore animism and traditional spiritual practices of Central Asia. Ismailova invited us to her studio in Paris to talk about how her ubringing in post-Soviet Uzbekistan inspires her to reconnect with ancestral knowledge through archives embroidery and conversations with an extinct tiger. Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lxXIiB13uPY) 2025-11-27T11:51Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "How to Weave Like Anni Albers Tate Ever wondered how a piece of fabric is made For this how to Textile Designer Rosa Pearks shows us how to weave a piece of fabric inspired by Anni Albers. If the film leaves you feeling really inspired follow our step-by-step below and find out more about Anni Albers: https://bit.ly/2OyyQ5H #AnniAlbers Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl Filmed at Central Saint Martins University of The Arts London in the Woven Textiles Workshop. To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pXd1e4vekZI) 2018-10-19T17:37Z 390K followers, 84.3K engagements "Yayoi Kusama Obsessed with Polka Dots Tate The nine decades of artist Yayoi Kusamas life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media including painting drawing sculpture film performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery to soft sculpture known as Accumulations to her Infinity Net paintings made up of carefully repeated arcs" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rRZR3nsiIeA) 2012-02-06T14:39Z 390K followers, 3.1M engagements "Nnena Kalu Body in Rhythm Line in Motion Turner Winner [----] Tate Step into the world of Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu who transforms her innate need to wrap layer and build into a powerful artistic language. From her earliest days working with line and colour through to her monumental installations of swirling vortexes Kalus practice is driven by rhythm and repetition that guides her movements and shapes her environments. This film discusses her journey making art from from disused shop spaces to major international exibitions exploring how her process has evolved from clustered bursts of colour" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sXPERrbZQ_I) 2025-09-23T12:15Z 390K followers, 18.6K engagements "Why Study Art TateShots We asked leading artists actors filmmakers architects and choreographers why art should be on the curriculum. Watch their responses. Should art be on the curriculum Tell us your thoughts in the comments below. Featuring: David Hockney Yinka Shonibare MBE Michael Craig-Martin Catherine Opie Cate Blanchett Anne-Marie Imafidon Cornelia Parker Wolfgang Tillmans Amanda Levete Tania Bruguera Bob and Roberta Smith Michael Clark Jacqueline Wilson Alan Parker and Jeremy Deller. In October [----] a landmark research project commissioned by Arts Council England and involving" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vKjkx6PzajE) 2018-10-12T17:00Z 390K followers, 491K engagements "Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon Artist Interview TateShots When Damien Hirst was a kid he says 'All my paintings were like bad Bacons'. We invited Damien to Tate Britain to see the Francis Bacon retrospective. He tells us why he loves the Crucifixion and Head series': detail that vanishes the closer you get paint like blood and guts. 'That's probably why I love Bacon paintings. When I first saw them they reminded me of places I'd seen in nightmares.' Damien Hirst (Visual Artist) Francis Bacon (Visual Artist) Visual Arts (Field Of Study) Educational Film (Film Genre) Tate Gallery Britain" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vjIrSytVdnI) 2008-12-03T12:32Z 390K followers, 183.9K engagements "Martin Parr 'Photography is a Form of Therapy' TateShots Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate look at aspects of modern life in particular documenting the social classes of England. In [----] he opened the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol which aims to collect celebrate and raise the status of British documentary photographers. Find out more about Martin Parr: https://goo.gl/ztkMoL Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl Tate tateshots martin parr bristol Tate" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wlKrnYWXEK8) 2017-12-15T14:06Z 390K followers, 140.1K engagements "Damien Hirst For the Love of God TateShots To accompany Tate Modern's major survey of Damien Hirst's work the artist's iconic diamond-covered skull 'For the Love of God' (2007) was shown in the Turbine Hall. butterfly cat:artist interviews publish:youtube podcast:TateShots Painter paint shark channel:active skull sculpture Art date:02.04.2012 [----] money Damien Hirst butterfly cat:artist interviews publish:youtube podcast:TateShots Painter paint shark channel:active skull sculpture Art date:02.04.2012 [----] money Damien Hirst" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3tXIYBFbUjs) 2012-04-04T09:15Z 390K followers, 132.6K engagements "Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap Up the Reichstag Lost Art Christo and Jeanne-Claudes Wrapped Reichstag temporarily erased the famous landmark for two weeks in [----]. The Gallery of Lost Art was an online exhibition that told the stories of vanished artworks. Whether destroyed stolen discarded or erased some of the most significant artworks of the last [---] years have been lost and can no longer be seen. In [----] for their piece Wrapped Reichstag artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude covered the German landmark with [------] square metres of billowing silver-grey fabric tied by over fifteen kilometres" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4zYKa6xmbjQ) 2015-07-30T13:13Z 390K followers, 166.5K engagements "William Kentridge Art Must Defend the Uncertain Artist Interview TateShots William Kentridges studio in Johannesburg is a vital physical and psychic space where he conceives and develops his ambitious projects and artworks. William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints drawings and animated films which are usually developed from charcoal drawings and sketches. In this film he talks about how flexible charcoal is and how you can change the composition as quickly as you can change your mind. He also shows us around his studio where ideas conceived as drawings become" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dnweo-LQZLU) 2018-04-20T15:05Z 390K followers, 221K engagements "Thao Nguyen Phan 'My reflectionson the history of Vietnam the poetry of daily life' Tate Step inside the studio of artist Thao Nguyen Phan and discover her mesmerising poetic work. Through video paintings and sculpture Phan explores the historical and ecological issues facing her homeland Vietnam while speaking to broader ideas around tradition ideology ritual and environmental change. Her recent projects have expanded on the beauty and suffering of the Mekong River which runs through Tibet China Myanmar Thailand Laos and Cambodia before meeting the sea on the coast of Vietnam. Phans latest" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=H5y-uYcBk4k) 2022-03-14T10:18Z 390K followers, 75.5K engagements "Simone Rocha on Louise Bourgeois TateShots Simone Rocha is part of a new generation of British fashion designers who take inspiration from modern art. In celebration of London Fashion Week [----] we visit the designer in her East End studio to hear how the artist Louise Bourgeois has influenced her collections. From concepts through to fabric and textile choices Rocha talks us through some of her key pieces and how she relates to Bourgeois's life and work. tateshots simone rocha louise bourgeois fashion london fashion week [----] tate tateshots simone rocha louise bourgeois fashion london fashion" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KL6sMOn7ULo) 2012-09-13T16:25Z 390K followers, 18.2K engagements "Maggi Hambling 'Every Portrait is Like a Love Affair' Artist Interview TateShots Maggi Hambling is a British painter and sculptor known for her intricate portraits and seascapes. The artist uses her creative practice as a grieving tool to cope with the loss of her loved ones such as Henrietta Moraes her mother and father. We visited the Suffolk-born artist in her home studio as she is now working of a series of laughing portraits. Find out more about Maggi Hambling: https://bit.ly/2n8frs5 Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-4Syn1pmE) 2018-08-03T17:00Z 390K followers, 271.6K engagements "What are Archives Animating the Archives This video series examines some of the stories behind Tates archives of British art exploring questions and processes that are emerging from their collection conservation and use. What does the word archive mean to you Hear from artists gallery volunteers and history experts about the sorts of things you can find in archives. What secrets do archives hold and how can your own experiences and possessions be of archival value Archives Tate Gallery Britain (Museum) Tate (Tourist Attraction) Tate Modern Animating the Archives Archival Khan Academy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QNN2LFe_iD8) 2015-01-30T16:05Z 390K followers, 74.1K engagements "Performance and Protest: Can Art Change Society How Art Became Active Ep. [--] of [--] TateShots We might think of Performance Art as something completely different to what's usually shown in museums. We're used to museums (like us) collecting and showing objects but performance is live and ephemeral. It happens and then it's gone. But more and more we're showing this sort of thing. In this series we invited art historian Jacky Klein to take a close look at five different ways in which performance is found inside and sometimes outside the museum so that (perhaps) it feels a little more familiar" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XGy9yJN12lo) 2018-05-25T13:04Z 390K followers, 64.7K engagements "Artist Damien Hirst at Tate Modern Tate Damien Hirst takes us through his [----] exhibition at Tate Modern with curator Ann Gallagher. Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in [----] when he conceived and curated Freeze an exhibition in a disused warehouse which showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. This is the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and brings together key works from" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YWSb9QMlLoQ) 2012-04-04T11:07Z 390K followers, 390.4K engagements "Lorna Simpson 'Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire' TateShots Old sports photographs and hair commercials provide inspiration for American artist Lorna Simpson. The artist uses combinations ofimage and text to examine the processes through which meaning and understanding take place. Here Simpson shows us how she arrived at this methodology and why her surroundings are so important to her work. #TateShots Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl tateshots tate gallery art artist lorna simpson Lorna Simpson (Visual Artist) contemporary art Lorna Simpson interview inspiration" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNk098ffjLM) 2014-03-20T17:22Z 390K followers, 63.1K engagements "Art Hoe Collective Meets Lorna Simpson Tate Collective Amandla Stenberg and Mars from Art Hoe Collective meet with Brooklyn based artist Lorna Simpson discussing the inspiration behind the #ArtHoe movement and how it relates to Simpsons work. Art Hoe Collective is an online platform providing young creatives of colour the opportunity to broadcast and share their artwork. Through social media the collective explore questions of race gender and sexuality. Its become a movement about self-acceptance and self-love as artwork - Amandla Stenberg of Art Hoe Collective Often using found materials" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gtGFgfzekjM) 2016-07-22T10:30Z 390K followers, 54.1K engagements "Pablo Picassos The Three Dancers TateShots Listen to the story behind one of Picassos most famous artworks in the Tate collection tell us what you think in the comments below Find out more about Pablo Picasso: https://goo.gl/L3wSzc Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl Tate tate modern picasso pablo picasso the three dancers tate collection art modern art three dancers Tate tate modern picasso pablo picasso the three dancers tate collection art modern art three dancers" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kHcg9U25yV0) 2017-03-15T15:14Z 390K followers, 41.9K engagements "Exploring the Surreal with Peter Capaldi Unlock Art Tate Need some help getting to grips with Surrealism The Doctor will see you now. Peter Capaldi a former art student and the latest actor to play Doctor Who settles down on Freud's couch to deliver his wry take on the Surrealist movement. 'Unlock Art' is Tate's new short film series offering a witty inside track on the world of art. Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi joins forces with rock duo The Kills comedian Frank Skinner Girls star Jemima Kirke and other celebrity art fans to introduce some of the big ideas that have shaped art history. A" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uPD6okhfGzs) 2014-04-24T07:13Z 390K followers, 382.7K engagements "Enter the underwater worlds of Emilija karnulyt Tate Artist Emilija karnulyt often places her own body at the centre of her work moving through environments and adopting hybrid mythical forms to explore underwater worlds and spaces rarely seen. Shifting between human and non-human perspectives she creates a way of looking that blurs the boundary between documentary and the imaginary. In this film we follow karnulyt as she swims through Arctic submarine bases and sacred river confluences in the Amazon reflecting on the physical experience of being in the water. The film also looks at Telstar a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wzt85nJ_D_k) 2026-01-19T15:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "5 Times Artist Nam June Paik Predicted the Future Tate Nam June Paik was a truly global artist. Born in South Korea he lived and worked in Japan Germany and the United States. He was one of the first Asian artists who found success in the West. In his art Paik saw technology as a way to open up the world and connect with people in different countries beyond national borders and cultural differences. He experimented with TV broadcasting synthesizers and robots and was one of the first artists to use video as art. Discover how Nam June Paik predicted the future of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yMUJB5aFvdo) 2019-12-20T18:00Z 390K followers, 119.5K engagements "Ed Ruscha The Tension of Words and Images Artist Interview TateShots Ed Ruscha began his career as a layout artist at a Los Angeles advertising agency in the late 1950s. He has continued to draw on this background producing works that demonstrate an ongoing interest in typography signage and the West Coast of the United States. His creates paintings in which text is superimposed over landscapes and traditional American vistas where the bold lettering is in complete opposition to the idyllic idealised and somewhat kitsch representations of the images. Through this playful and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HoNePbo9DD0) 2013-05-23T16:17Z 389K followers, 133.6K engagements "Jacques Herzog on Tate Modern TateShots Herzog and De Meuron have been behind some of the worlds most spectacular buildings from Beijings Olympic Stadium to the original Tate Modern nearly a decade ago. In [----] Tate Modern's ambitious new extension opened to the public. TateShots was given privileged access to the architects studio in Basel Switzerland when the work was underway. In our film Jacques Herzog talks about his excitement to be working on the project and why TM2 (as the new building project was known) would stand out in Londons busy skyline. Find out more about the Tate Modern" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hypdk-EW2zo) 2008-12-03T12:23Z 390K followers, 84.1K engagements "Child's Play: Matisse at Tate Modern With colours galore monkeys and a mermaid free entry for under-12's and special activities for kids Matisse at Tate Modern is a fantastic family day out. Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs Tate Modern: Exhibition [--] April -- [--] September [----] http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/henri-matisse-cut-outs" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1W4fdGyS98) 2014-05-20T14:57Z 388K followers, 74.8K engagements "Hurvin Anderson 'Its questioning my history my place' Tate Artist Hurvin Anderson shares the inspiration and ideas behind his paintings and how he uses photography within his work. See his work in the Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s Now exhibition on at Tate Britain until [--] April [----]. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I2nRnnVYuy4) 2022-01-07T07:45Z 387K followers, 57.9K engagements "1840-1890 Meet [---] Years of British Art Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain from [----] to the present. This week Alison Smith explores the period 1840-1890 This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IR1Qc9F4GR0) 2013-07-03T11:03Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "Carl Andre 'Works of Art Don't Mean Anything' TateShots In this interview filmed at the artist's New York apartment Carl Andre discusses how materials are a natural part of his life and looks back at when his work hit the headlines recalling criticism such as 'you can't make art out of bricks'. Since the 1960s Carl Andre has made work that emphasises the inherent qualities of his materials. After a period carving sculpture he began arranging everyday materials in simple geometric configurations. Andre has described his method as scavenging for 'physical realities' and he has often sought" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JLgwSgWpkpk) 2014-04-10T19:26Z 390K followers, 102.2K engagements "How to Paint Like Kandinsky Tate Ever wondered how Kandinsky painted his masterpieces Find out in this 'how to' with artist Sui. Material list: [--]. (Pre-primed) cotton canvas [--] x 70cm [--]. Oil brush no 3.8.12 [--]. Flat brush no [--] (for applying base layer) [--]. Slow Dry Retarder (type of medium) [--]. Soft Gel Semi Glass Medium (for certain finish once it dries up) [--]. Colours: Quinacridone Red/ Mars Black/Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade)/Yellow Light Hansa/ Mixing White/ Parchment/ Emerald Green/Naples Yellow Hue To see the full instructions and to find out more about Wassily Kandinsky:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jsr2SsNSUfI) 2018-06-18T08:34Z 389K followers, 204.3K engagements "Inside JMW Turners sketchbooks Tate #arthistory #history #drawing #sketching #sketchbook" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JtrdLbFOgNk) 2025-04-25T11:09Z 390K followers, 11.7K engagements "A Life in [--] Artworks: Helen Chadwick Tate Helen Chadwick's work combines powerful imagery and visceral materials creating pieces that are both sensuous and unsettling. In this film we sit down with curators and those who knew the artist to explore her life career and the themes behind [--] of her key artworks. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Audio archive available at: www.bl.uk/nls" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ft9SZ3W6E) 2025-03-25T08:00Z 390K followers, 11K engagements "Rose Wylie 'I Like Big Work' TateShots Artist Rose Wylie takes inspiration for her paintings from film literature and even the scraps of newspaper articles on her studio floor. Often arranging her large-scale paintings in book formation so that they take on the angles found at the corner of a room Wylie's use of familiar imagery allows her to tell stories and explore themes of representation in narratives already in the public domain. Find out more about Rose Wylie: https://goo.gl/56ief2 #TateShots Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KMWSe0Mkzjg) 2013-09-12T15:23Z 389K followers, 86.6K engagements "Mona Hatoum 'Nothing Is a Finished Project' TateShots Mona Hatoum creates a challenging vision of our world exposing its contradictions and complexities. TateShots visited the artist during the install of her first major survey at Tate Modern covering [--] years from her early radical performances and video pieces to sculptures and large-scale installations. The artist talks about her practice her materials and the artwork on display. Please note that at 0:36 the artwork 'Cellules' is spelled incorrectly. We apologise for this mistake. Mona Hatoum's work is currently on display at Tate Modern:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kofcm9teUmo) 2016-05-09T14:08Z 388K followers, 52.1K engagements "Kids React to Art - Cildo Meireles's Babel Tate #kidsreact #funnyvideo 📻 We asked kids to react to Cildo Meireles's Babel one of [--] artworks celebrating Tate Modern's 25th birthday and this is what they said" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KrpFjRTk3Ro) 2025-07-02T15:33Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "How to Draw Like Paula Rego Tate Follow our step-by-step guide to pastel drawing with artist Katy Papineau. For further tips and details about this activity visit our website at https://bit.ly/2zoWj2q. Please note filming took place before the UK's lockdown measures were introduced. You will need: - A drawing board - An easel - Pastel paper - Hard pastels - Soft pastels - Conte pencils - White liquitex gesso - Black or dark grey acrylic paint - A wide paintbrush - Fixative - Masking tape - A selection of props All of the materials are available online or at your local art supply shop." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LAZimVk7lGY) 2020-05-13T11:15Z 388K followers, 418.7K engagements "Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern Creative playful and inventive Gabriel Orozco creates art in the streets his apartment or wherever he is inspired. Born in Mexico but working across the globe Orozco is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects which he subtly alters. Gabriel Orozco was shown at Tate Modern from [--] January - [--] April [----]. Subscribe for more artists: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_centeradd_user=tate" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LwF9nTEB84k) 2011-01-21T15:07Z 389K followers, 165.3K engagements "Shirin Neshat - 'Dreams Are Where Our Fears Live' Tate Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat uses film video and photography to explore issues of gender and identity with a particular focus on women's relationships with religious cultural systems of Islam. In [----] aged [--] Neshat moved from Iran to the United States to study art at the University of California Berkeley. During her absence the country became an Islamic republic following the [----] revolution. On returning in [----] she was struck by the cultural and political changes that had taken place one significant change being the introduction" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M43QgkbOEv8) 2021-07-02T15:00Z 388K followers, 404.5K engagements "Picassos Three Dancers: joyful celebration or dance of death 💃💃💃 Tate 👨🎨 A century after Pablo Picasso painted his famous Three Dancers experience the work in a new way in our recently-opened exhibition Theatre Picasso. 🎭 Contemporary artist Wu Tsang and author and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca have transformed the exhibition space into a theatre displaying over [--] works by Picasso. See it for yourself at Tate Modern until [--] April 2026: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/theatre-picasso" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M50oeLW8P0g) 2025-09-19T11:44Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Alberto Giacometti 'A New Way of Thinking About Humanity' TateShots Celebrated as a sculptor painter and draughtsman Alberto Giacomettis distinctive figures are some of the most instantly recognisable works of modern art. Here curator and Director of Tate Modern Frances Morris highlights three key works in the artist's career. A new exhibition at Tate Modern reasserts Giacomettis place alongside the likes of Matisse Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter-sculptors of the twentieth century. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M58oMKBO7S0) 2017-05-11T13:12Z 387K followers, 190.7K engagements "Doris Salcedo Shibboleth TateShots Colombian artist Doris Salcedo discusses why she split the turbine hall floor. Her new work Shibboleth is a long snaking fissure that ran the vast length of the Turbine Hall as if striking to the very foundations of the museum. Something similar might be said of the concept that underpins the piece. The word 'shibboleth' refers back to an incident in the Bible which describes how the Ephraimites attempting to flee across the river Jordan were stopped by their enemies the Gileadites. As their dialect did not include a 'sh' sound those who could not say the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NIJDn2MAn9I) 2008-08-12T16:11Z 388K followers, 67.2K engagements "Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival BMW Tate Live Coinciding with the Notting Hill Carnival Tate Modern presents Up Hill Down Hall: An indoor carnival a new performance commission guest curated by Claire Tanconsthat offers critical and artistic perspectives onCarnival. Informed by the history of the Notting Hill Carnival as it reaches a milestone half-century of existenceUp Hill Down Hallshowcases performances forhundreds of participants by artists Hew Lockeand Marlon Griffith against the backdrop of an architectural design by Gia Wolff and a soundscape by Dubmorphology (Gary Stewart and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O-hHiXlofMs) 2014-09-18T12:38Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "Tracey Emins My Bed at Tate Britain My Bed is displayed alongside six of Emins recent figure drawings as well as two oil paintings by Francis Bacon selected by Emin. Her installation as Bacons paintings do retains a strong sense of the lived presence and memory traces of past events. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/bp-spotlight-tracey-emin-and-francis-bacon BP Spotlight: Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon Part of the series BP Spotlights Tracey Emins installation My Bed [----] returns to Tate Britain after it first came to public attention when shown in the [----] Turner Prize" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OD8yjJZdEOw) 2015-03-30T08:03Z 388K followers, 70.8K engagements "Tate Worlds Tate Creates Minecraft Worlds inspired by Art Tate Worlds are exciting Minecraft maps that present virtual environments inspired by artworks from Tates collection. The maps allow players of Minecraft to explore a range of paintings and sculpture undertaking various activities and challenges that relate to the themes of the artworks or exploring how they were made. Tate has teamed up with some of Minecrafts best known mapmakers to create these virtual artworks offering a unique combination of art history and adventure. The first Tate Worlds maps will be available to download for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OLsz1OZ9bpc) 2014-11-21T12:18Z 387K followers, 22.9K engagements "Ask the Artist Questions for Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Tate Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye responds to questions from visitors to her [----] exhibition at Tate Britain. How does she know when an artwork is finished What music does she listen to while painting And has her Ghanaian heritage influenced her work Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. Both familiar and mysterious they invite viewers to project their own interpretations and raise important questions of identity and representation. See her exhibition at Tate Britain" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OYjmunYpPXA) 2022-12-16T08:30Z 388K followers, 42.7K engagements "Turner and the Masters Turner's Rivalry Turner and the Masters opens 23rd September [----] at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk Music by Sound Designers Anonymous www.illanon.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OoiozT8EtNw) 2009-09-15T12:44Z 388K followers, 11.7K engagements "Meredith Monk I Believe in the Healing Power of Art Artist Interview TateShots We visit performance artist Meredith Monk in her New York City studio. Meredith Monk is an American composer performer film-maker and interdisciplinary artist. She is primarily known for her vocal innovations. Monk's performances have influenced many artists including Bruce Nauman whom she met in San Francisco in [----]. She is the subject of an iconic photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe shot in [----]. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=R36Vh37-OQ4) 2017-11-03T11:25Z 387K followers, 114.8K engagements "What was the Great Salt Hedge of India 🌳 Tate #contemporaryart #art 🧂 Over 2500km long the Hedge was grown by the British Empire in the Indian subcontinent between [----] and [----] separating the British-occupied Bengal Presidency from independent states. Part of the Inland Customs Line it was planted to prevent smuggling and enforce the British monopoly on salt. 📺 Artist duo Hylozoic/Desires excavate the archives of the Customs Line in their video installation The Hedge of Halomancy on display at Tate Britain until [--] August 2025: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/hylozoicdesires" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RYaPc1AVFsw) 2025-08-17T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "What is the Black Atlantic The Black Atlantic: Episode [--] Tate In episode one of our four-part mini-series culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun searches for a definition of the Black Atlantic drawing on the works of JMW Turner Ingrid Pollard Isaac Julien and Yinka Shonibare. In [----] Paul Gilroy published a ground-breaking book The Black Atlantic: Modernity & Double Consciousness which has forever left its mark on historical and cultural studies. The idea that there exists a culture which is African American Caribbean and British all at once has generated the rich and boundless space that is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RrRbLJBDkSg) 2022-08-01T15:50Z 387K followers, 34.3K engagements "'I'm painting in the technology of my time' Samia Halaby Tate Step inside the studio of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby one of the earliest innovators of digital art. In the mid-1980s Halaby bought an Amiga computer and taught herself how to code. With it she produced bold colourful 'kinetic paintings' consisting of vivid brightly coloured geometric shapes and slanting lines shifting restlessly in all directions. For Halaby these works were a continuation of the abstract paintings she had been creating in oils and acrylic since the 1960s. In this film we travel with Halaby from her" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SdrYqKOBe5E) 2025-04-09T12:27Z 388K followers, 26.4K engagements "'It's not a dress rehearsal' Delaine Le Bas Tate Within her work Delaine Le Bas transforms her surroundings into monumental immersive environments filled with painted fabrics theatrical costumes and sculptures. Her art draws on the rich cultural history of the Roma people and mythologies focusing on themes of death loss and renewal. In this film Le Bas reflects on her identity grief and the intertwining of art and life. As she says: 'My whole life is just one whole thing. I don't think it's divided off really. What I'm like and what I dress like and then what I do. It's like one big piece of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TXVDMezCC6s) 2024-09-21T10:04Z 390K followers, 24.9K engagements "'It's not enough just protesting' Arahmaiani Tate For artist and activist Arahmaiani art can be a form of reparation and healing. Her performances and community-based work offer a way of addressing historical violence by coming to terms with the past. In this short video watch Arahmaiani recreate her [----] work Burning Country in the galleries at Tate Modern. The work refers to traumatic events witnessed by the artist in her home country of Indonesia in May [----]. During a period of economic crises food shortages and unemployment students began demonstrating against the authoritarian regime of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tg3wt7C7XJs) 2025-01-08T13:00Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "Artist David Salle 'Good Painting Has Immediate Impact' TateShots 'A good painting has immediate impact' says American artist David Salle 'but rewards a longer viewing time'. David Salle is an American painter printmaker and stage designer. From his New York studio the artist talks about the combination of images that go into one of his multi-layered paintings. The artist also explains how his interest in 'exploring the body in space' has led him to paint the bodies of his models and have them physically lifted onto his canvases to leave an imprint. Find out more about David Salle:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uc5ufcPDXkI) 2012-06-07T16:53Z 388K followers, 645.3K engagements "Explore the history of The Tanks at Tate Modern Tate Tate Modern's Director of Programme Catherine Wood explores the industrial history of Tate's underground art space The Tanks. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VBfjIMcf71c) 2024-02-23T16:00Z 388K followers, [----] engagements "Wifredo Lam TateShots Wifredo Lam was born in Cuba in [----] of mixed heritage and pursued a successful artistic career on both sides of the Atlantic. He was closely associated Pablo Picasso and members of the surrealist movement like Andr Breton. In this film the artist's son recounts his father's story and shares his memories. His work poetically addresses themes of social injustice nature and spirituality and was greeted internationally with both consternation and acclaim. A witness to twentieth-century political upheaval throughout his long career including the Spanish Civil War and the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VchFg7qYRX4) 2016-08-04T11:44Z 390K followers, 40K engagements "Artist Claudette Johnson 'Giving Space to the Presence of a Black Woman' Artist Claudette Johnson uses painting and drawing as a means to explore representations of Black women (and sometimes men). Here she talks about how her personal experience of being a Black woman and an Artist has shaped her work. Johnson's subjects are people she knows well often drawn from life; a process which allows her to project the presence of the person she is drawing. Each large-scale artwork boasts a rich colour palette. Completed at the time of filming is her most vibrant yet 'Kind of Blue' which features" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VuGXGyKL5wk) 2021-04-12T16:00Z 388K followers, 40.8K engagements "Jonathan Olley Exposed at Tate Modern British Artist Jonathan Olley describes how his former job as a newspaper photojournalist lead him to discover the secret surveillance towers of Northern Ireland. Jonathan Olley is a British artist and documentary photographer. His work 'Castles of Ulster '1981 is on display in Exposed: Voyeurism Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern until [--] October [----]. Part of a series of Exposed interviews available for free on your mobile phone at Tate Modern: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/exposure/mobile/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WAGKh4roh8E) 2010-07-05T11:12Z 388K followers, [----] engagements "Step inside Magdalena Abakanowicz's forest of woven sculptures Tate In the 1960s Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz began making large-scale woven sculptures that defied all categorisation. They seemed like coats or cocoons that tempted you to crawl inside or hairy living creatures suspended from the gallery ceiling. The critics did not know what to make of them and called them 'Abakans' - perhaps the only example of an art form named after their artist. In this film curator Ann Coxon leads us through a 'forest' of these towering Abakans exploring how Abakanowicz pioneered a whole new form" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xrxx3tpEuco) 2023-01-06T13:55Z 389K followers, 394.5K engagements "Felicia Browne: Unofficial War Artist Animating the Archives Through her archive this film uncovers the work and untimely death of Felicia Browne a young artist who lost her life in the first months of the Spanish Civil War in [----]. This event reverberates through the work of artist Sonia Boue here reflecting on the significance of British volunteers like Browne who helped republican exiles like her father" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y-QXhHpbV_k) 2016-03-01T10:53Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Mohammed Sami: Meet the Turner Prize [----] nominees Tate Devoid of people Mohammed Sami's paintings take the form of landscapes and still-lifes. These scenes might appear serene or without a narrative but closer viewing reveals clues that hint toward more complex meanings. Watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HN8OwolwTtU Sami is nominated for the Turner Prize [----] for his solo exhibition After the Storm at Blenheim Palace. See the Turner Prize exhibition on display at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford until [--] February [----]. The winner of the Turner Prize [----] will be" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6UsYDQhZk0) 2025-11-25T07:30Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Tony Cragg 'Be There See It Respond to It' TateShots Tony Cragg is one of Britain's leading sculptors. Born in Liverpool in [----] Tony's love of the natural world as a child was the catalyst for a lifelong fascination with material and form. In this film he talks through the process of creating some of his most recent work introducing us to the team who help him to realise his unique vision for structure and form. Now based in Wuppertal Germany in [----] he opened the 'Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden'. Open to the public the sculpture park houses a steadily growing and changing collection of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9cS3hPpCco) 2018-04-13T13:37Z 388K followers, 109.1K engagements "Curing the Vampire: Gilberto Gil Gene Ware and Tilda Swinton Part of a series of interviews undertaken by artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (playing Gene Ware a character from the virtual world of Second Life) and actress Tilda Swinton. In this episode Gilberto Gil discusses his exile from Brazil and his involvement in The Tropiclia movement how after living and playing music in London he returned to Brazil eventually taking up the position of Minister for Culture where he continues to promote free culture. Commissioned by Tate's Intermedia Art programme copyright Lynn Hershman Leeson 2008" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YC_WS9BJjV8) 2009-08-05T11:31Z 387K followers, [---] engagements "Zohra Opoku 'Time is the best friend for an artist' Tate Artist Zohra Opoku trained as a fashion and textiles designer and her works combine fabric with photography to interrogate identity. In pieces like Queens and Kings (2017) she explores the ways that tradition and globalisation intersect in modern day Ghana. In this short film Opoku invites us into her studio in Accra Ghana to witness her collaborative approach to art-making. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRJtlcdzx9w) 2023-11-02T12:45Z 388K followers, 20K engagements "'It's difficult to defend yourself when the arguments are future global life' Mret nne Sara Artist Mret nne Sara explains how part of her Hyundai Commission: Goavve-Geabbil is inspired by the 'locked pastures' of her native Spmi and the impact of the climate crisis on its Indigenous communities. Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/aqFriolQpY0 See the Hyundai Commission [----] on free display until [--] April 2026: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/maret-anne-sara Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zgk-vpi2xzo) 2026-01-14T07:15Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Grayson Perry 'Pottery Is My Gimmick' TateShots Take a look inside the London studio of artist Grayson Perry. Describing pottery as his 'gimmick' Perry demonstrates his process and explains why he wants people to be able to just enjoy art rather than having to interpret it. #TateShots Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Yboc75WufE) 2011-10-14T16:42Z 389K followers, 180K engagements "Turner and the Masters Turner's Ambition Turner and the Masters opens 23rd September [----] at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk Music by Sound Designers Anonymous www.illanon.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_tUCDwr3VUU) 2009-09-15T12:45Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "Enter the Mothership: artist Yto Barrada's Tangier garden Tate The Mothership is a garden on the Strait of Gibraltar and yet much more than that. It's a residence and a retreat a dye garden an experimental lab and a family home. It's a place where artists gardeners writers and poets can find the time and space to restore themselves to work and study. In this film artist Yto Barrada invites us into the Mothership as well as to the Cinmathque de Tanger two important centres of art and 'inventivity' in the city of Tangier Morocco. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a-DWf-3CYoo) 2024-05-29T12:24Z 389K followers, 12.7K engagements "Jimmie Durham's artwork at Tate Modern Tate This video takes you behind the scenes installing a display of works by artist Jimmie Durham at Tate Modern. This footage was filmed in December [----]. Jimmie Durham was born in [----] in the US. Durhams art incorporates a range of media and processes such as sculptural assemblage painting drawing collage printmaking photography video performance and poetry. Many of Durham's include whatever materials were near to hand and accessible for the artist including stone wood and animal bones and hides alongside car parts plastic and metal pipe glass and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aCYsx8_KVy4) 2023-01-23T14:09Z 388K followers, 27.8K engagements "Eva Rothschild TateShots You use what you need to get what you want. Eva Rothschild explores her use of materials in her sculptural works. In this video Rothschild discusses the importance of the choice of materials she works with explaining how she manipulates these choices to give the appearance either of something pristine and untouched or of something that very much bears the touch of the artists hand. She also touches on how an artist can never see their own work as as the viewer does as one can never discover ones own work" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aDgRcP-mV5k) 2014-07-24T14:40Z 388K followers, 43.2K engagements "Terry Riley's In C Mali Live at Tate Modern Tate Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley's 'In C Mali' to mark the fiftieth anniversary of composer Terry Rileys world-renowned composition 'In C'. Classical conductor Andr de Ridder re-imagines Rileys famous piece with help from members of Africa Express including innovative African artists Bijou and Adama Koita and Blur frontman Damon Albarn. In the interactive version (click the link below) the footage of the live performance is inter-cut with interactive options that allow the viewer to immerse themselves in an ode to Minimalism." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aX96z7AuICs) 2015-02-10T16:10Z 388K followers, 263.8K engagements "Kids React to Art: Dals Lobster Telephone Tate #funnyvideo #kidsreact We asked kids to react to Salvador Dali's Lobster Telephone one of [--] artworks celebrating Tate Modern's 25th birthday and this is what they said" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bE_620bvVu4) 2025-05-21T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Transforming Tate Modern Nicholas Serota Director of Tate and Jacques Herzog Architect Herzog & de Meuron talk about the Transforming Tate Modern building project. This iconic new building will create more spaces for displaying the Collection for performance and installation art and for learning about art as well as creating more social spaces for visitors to relax and unwind in the gallery. More about the project: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/transformingtm/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c0Bg3vHbkdk) 2010-05-07T10:49Z 388K followers, 40.2K engagements "Liliane Lijn on her sculpture Queen of Hearts ♥ Tate Lijn has spent the last six decades creating kinetic sculptures like this one which help us "see the world in terms of light and energy." 💡 🏃♀ 🌊 See Lijn's work for yourself in the exhibition Arise Alive at Tate St Ives until [--] November 2025: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/liliane-lijn-arise-alive" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e-pMBuP1LDA) 2025-08-27T14:08Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Dia Al-Azzawi 'The World is a Small Village' Artist Interview TateShots Dia Al-Azzawi is one of Iraq's most influential living artists. Having moved to the UK in [----] Al-Azzawi found that by viewing Iraq from afar he could understand more about Iraqi and Arabic culture than if he had remained. Al-Azzawi's vast drawing Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982--3 is an example of work that arose from this process ofobservation. Made in response to the [----] massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut by Christian Lebanese Phalangists the killings took place over several days in refugee camps kept under" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=f8LDv2kthzw) 2012-11-01T10:56Z 387K followers, 61.9K engagements "Frank Bowling From Figuration to Abstraction Artist Interview TateShots The artist reflects on his career and the impact of moving from London to New York. 'I realised that one of the main ingredients in making paintings was colour and geometry' says the artist. Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) in [----] at [--] years old Frank Bowling moved to London. He went on to study painting at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. As Bowling reflects on his long career he remarks that his shift from figuration to abstraction came when he moved from London to New York. 'As I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fD5Ft2t7QBI) 2012-04-19T10:17Z 387K followers, 118.7K engagements "Keren Cytter 'Everybody Likes Revolution' TateShots We speak to Keren Cytter and members of her dance company D.I.E at Tate Modern November [----]. 'History in the Making or the Secret Diaries of Linda Schultz' is a new live theatre piece by Israeli artist Keren Cytter created in collaboration with D.I.E. Now (Dance International Europe) a theatre group recently formed by Cytter. John Webber a political activist and Linda Schultz a graphic designer awake one morning to discover they have each been subject to an unexpected and radical sex change. The repercussions of this event have a domino" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fDEwHN32lFk) 2010-01-08T14:15Z 389K followers, 15.4K engagements "Artist Daido Moriyama In Pictures Tate Daido Moriyama uses an ordinary compact camera and never stops shooting. The artist is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. In this film Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes us on a walk around the atmospheric Shinjuku neighbourhood his home from home in Tokyo. Moriyama's work was featured in the exhibition William Klein + Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern [--] October [----] - [--] January [----]. Find out more about Daido Moriyama: https://goo.gl/qUsU3a Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=foWAs3V_lkg) 2012-10-18T15:33Z 387K followers, 567.4K engagements "Gustav Klimt TateShots The Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool was a highlight of Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture. We sent art critic Nick Hackworth to see the show which as well as paintings by Klimt featured work by his contemporaries in the Viennese Secession a progressive group of artists architects furniture and fashion designers who shared a common artistic vision. Find out more about Klimt and the Viennese Secession: https://goo.gl/RdcmHu" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fz3YCTs2kgw) 2008-09-03T12:23Z 388K followers, 13.6K engagements "Warp x Tate Warp Records and Jeremy Deller Late at Tate Britain presents a free evening of performance and installations from Warp Records andJeremy Deller inspired by Deller's workThe History of the World. Meet the artist himself and some of the main contributors to the event in our short film. The film is one of a series in which leading creatives share artworks from Tate Britain's collection that have inspired them. See more on the Tate website: http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/meet-tate-britain" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gE6CgQwUwWU) 2013-12-09T18:00Z 388K followers, [----] engagements "Roy Lichtenstein Diagram of an Artist Tate Roy Lichtenstein is renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots. This film brings together archival footage of Lichtenstein at home and at work in his studio as well as interviews with his wife Dorothy and friend Frederic Tuten to create an intimate portrait of the artist. A retrospective exhibition of Lichtensteins work including [---] of the artists most definitive works was shown at Tate Modern in [----]. Find out more about Roy Lichtenstein: https://goo.gl/D4Bi4U" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gOsLpoa6c_4) 2013-02-01T17:56Z 387K followers, 211.1K engagements "Harrell Fletcher BMW Tate Live Performance artist Harrell Fletcher talks about his process and past work and divulges his plans for his turn in the BMW Performance Room. Watch his performance LIVE on YouTube - Thursday 28th June at 8pm. http://www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gYTWU3rWbZg) 2012-06-21T13:40Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "Sin Wai Kin 'I want people to exist in my world' Turner Prize Nominee [----] Tate Explore the universe of artist Sin Wai Kin populated by a cast of characters who challenge binary ways of thinking. Sins practice pivots around the use of speculative fiction within performance moving image writing and print to question the idealised image and the collective gaze. Identifying as mixed race and non-binary their work creates fantasy narratives to interrupt normative processes around issues of desire identification and objectification. Sins use of performance and particularly drag began as a means of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_vvZHK3ykE) 2022-10-14T06:14Z 390K followers, 43K engagements "Allora and Calzadilla at the Venice Biennale [----] TateShots Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have been collaborating since [----] their work spans many mediums - sculpture photography performance sound and video. Find out more about Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla: https://goo.gl/eoRssL" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hl1iWPEm0iw) 2011-06-09T10:02Z 389K followers, 15.1K engagements "Gary Hume Studio Visit TateShots 'I only get pleasure while painting if there is a problem and when I solve that problem I need to make another one' says Gary Hume. Part of the internationally celebrated group of 'Young British Artists' that studied at London's Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s Hume has gone on to become one of Britain's most highly respected painters. In this film made on the eve his new show at Tate Britain Hume invites TateShots into his studio and talks about his working practice and his famous preference for household gloss paints" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hlN8RPvUWO0) 2013-05-31T13:45Z 389K followers, 110.4K engagements "Performance at the New Tate Modern New Tate Modern Opening [--] June 2016" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i4DWml0fNHQ) 2015-12-04T12:19Z 388K followers, [----] engagements "The Guerrilla Girls and The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist Tate #photography #activistart Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio Artists Studio Contemporary Art Lecture Contemporary Artist Interview Art History Famous Artist Famous Artworks Famous Art How to get inspiration for art Famous Living Artist Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iBg52hFA2Dc) 2025-05-28T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Late at Tate Borders & Territories" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifUYVovJh3Q) 2011-07-21T11:58Z 389K followers, [----] engagements "Monster Chetwynd's A Tax Haven Run By Women Tate #contemporaryart" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iwUX5nG_lGI) 2025-04-16T07:00Z 389K followers, [----] engagements "Art in Focus Loveday and Ann by Frances Hodgkins Tate Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers by artist Frances Hodgkins. Hear a detailed description of the painting and learn more about how the artist made the work. Loveday and Ann were two young women daughters of fishermen from St Ives in Cornwall where New Zealand-born Hodgkins was living in [----]. While in Cornwall and also during stays in Paris Hodgkins developed her distinctive representative style and characteristic use of colour. At her death in [----] she was considered" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jDw-uYoElVc) 2020-10-07T08:36Z 388K followers, 25.5K engagements "Ask the Artist Questions for Tania Bruguera TateShots Watch Cuban artist Tania Bruguera answer questions about her 2018-19 Tate Modern Hyundai Commission submitted by the public. Tania Brugueras Hyundai Commission in Tate Moderns Turbine Hall asks museum visitors to experience a community-driven response to the global migration crisis. The acclaimed Cuban artist and activist has created a series of subtle interventions in and around Tate Modern. The works title is an ever-increasing figure: the number of people who migrated from one country to another last year added to the number of migrant" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jjW7IhvJ5ew) 2018-11-16T18:05Z 388K followers, 22.7K engagements "Rene Mati: Meet the Turner Prize [----] nominees Tate "All I had to do was you know be born." Rene Mati returns to their hometown of Peterborough telling us about their "obsession with understanding Britishness - or not understanding it". Watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=KQet8jCoqOQ Mati works primarily with photography as well as sculpture textiles sound and other mediums. Their artwork questions identity society and how we find a sense of belonging. They are nominated for the Turner Prize [----] for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH at CCA Berlin. See the Turner" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmMGupt0ogU) 2025-11-18T08:30Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "'The spiritual properties of colour' who were the Blue Rider Tate The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) was an informal collective of modern expressionist artists who came together in Munich Germany in the early twentieth century. Members of the group included Wassily Kandinsky Gabriele Mnter Franz Marc August Macke Elisabeth Epstein Marianne Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky. In this short film curator Natalia Sidlina and art historian Dorothy Price explain how the group wanted to explore the emotional and spiritual dimensions of art emphasising abstraction symbolism and expressive mark-making. Jazz" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=k36jLW-hLPU) 2024-08-22T11:16Z 388K followers, 42.6K engagements "Painting trees 🌲🌳 : a silly thing to do Tate #art #contemporaryart British painter George Shaw on 'humble' picture-making and the universal appeal of drawing. Watch the full film: https://youtu.be/tsKunA_23f0si=YSu7N0cXMz_PYZAc Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio Artists Studio Contemporary Art Lecture Contemporary Artist Interview Art History Famous" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=k3idJmXQcYw) 2025-06-12T13:47Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Barbara Walker Its like life itself like the air I breathe Tate In this film visual artist Barbara Walker MBE RA shows us around her studio in Birmingham and talks about the themes present in her practice including temporality power and body politics. We also see her creating a free-hand wall drawing in Towner Gallery as part of her series Burden of Proof whereby she creates large-scale in-situ portraits of individuals affected by the Windrush Scandal Barbara Walker is nominated for the [----] Turner Prize hosted by Towner Eastbourne. The winner will be announced on [--] December [----]. Subscribe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=keXpJae-XfU) 2023-10-18T11:12Z 388K followers, 267.6K engagements "Josh O'Connor's favourite Tate memories ☀ We caught up with The Mastermind actor Josh O'Connor as he chats Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project our current Hyundai Commission by Maret Anne Sara and his own artistic inspirations ✨" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZEY0NKWbA) 2025-12-17T10:49Z 390K followers, 55.5K engagements "Art in Focus White and Yellow by Marlow Moss Tate Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of White and Yellow by artist Marlow Moss. Hear a detailed description of the painting and learn more about how the artist made the work. Moss produced abstract artworks based on mathematical systems and proportions. White and Yellow is one of the earliest works Moss made with string and canvas. The work is strikingly geometrical. All angles are right angles and lines and elements within the design are parallel with the edges of the base canvas and with each other. Subscribe for weekly films:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=l3Nz-MxPxxY) 2020-11-11T16:53Z 388K followers, 12.2K engagements "Mark Rothko at Tate Modern TateShots In 2008/09 Tate Modern presented an exhibition of the late works of Mark Rothko. The show's curator Achim Borchardrt-Hume takes us on a tour featuring the iconic Seagram Murals Black-Form paintings and the Black on Grey paintings -- the last series made before Rothko's death in [----]. We find out how much importance Rothko placed on the way his work was displayed and why these mysterious rectangles of layered pigment hold such enduring appeal. Find out more about Mark Rothko: https://goo.gl/8K3NMn Mark Rothko (Visual Artist) Tate Modern London (Museum) Art" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lPgj7lHnU10) 2008-10-15T16:19Z 390K followers, 142.2K engagements "Fernando Palma Rodrguez on why we must humanise technology Tate #art #contemporaryart "If it does not have a commitment to the environment to what we are causing then art has no social function." Watch the full film about Nahua artist Fernando Palma Rodrguez on our channel: https://youtu.be/-hlw0aL_OGMsi=1cfcYJ-qO6qLj1f1" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mGiRt0kUpWY) 2025-06-18T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Francis Als The Last Clown TateShots Belgian artist Francis Als talks about his work The Last Clown (1995-2000) an installation that comprises animation drawings and paintings all depicting the same incident: a man tripping over a dog in a park. Als explains how this absurd real life event can be read as a metaphor for the predicament of the artist" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQZnussmPoU) 2008-08-13T13:26Z 387K followers, 36K engagements "Performing Sculpture Earle Brown's Calder Piece TateShots Earle Brown was a major force in contemporary music and the American avant-garde since the 1950s and the creator of open form a style of musical construction greatly indebted to the works of Alexander Calder. In [----] Brown and Calder embarked on a musical collaboration for which Calder made Chef dorchestre where four percussionists are conducted by the mobile. Some [---] percussion instruments are employed in a performance where the movement of the sculpture is read by the percussionists responding to the varying configuration of its" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mUOkDROw_uM) 2015-11-23T13:38Z 390K followers, 13.9K engagements "Ken Loach Inspired by William Hogarth Ken Loach brings his cinematic eye to the art of William Hogarth. As he completes what may be his last feature film 'Jimmy's Hall' a period drama set in 1930's Ireland Ken Loach reflects on the connections between art and filmmaking and explains why he'd rather spend time with William Hogarth and his servants than any of the fine dandies in other portraits on show at Tate Britain. The film is one of a series in which leading creatives share artworks from Tate Britain's collection that have inspired them. 'Jimmy's Hall' is released in [----] See more on the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=odZrzqgOruE) 2013-11-26T10:19Z 390K followers, 14.8K engagements "Water Walks: Taey Iohe in Walthamstow Wetlands Tate Artist and writer Taey Iohe guides us through a meditative act of self-disovery in the tranquil setting of London's Walthamstow Wetlands. Iohe was one of the artists who appeared as part of the three-day symposium Waterways: Arteries rhythms and kinship at Tate Modern in September [----]. Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qDU--0lCKZ4) 2024-12-02T18:50Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "5 Facts: Matisses The Snail 🐌 Tate #art #artist #abstractart #matisse" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qdkfUZklFyE) 2025-02-28T16:01Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "Mirna Bamieh "it affects what we put on our plate as Palestinians" Tate Artist Mirna Bamieh creates spaces installations tables performances and shared experiences that explore ideas of disappearance and memory. She is the founder of Palestine Hosting Society a live art project that explores traditional food culture in Palestine especially those that are on the verge of disappearing. In this short film Bamieh invites us into her kitchen and studio and asks us to think about how cooking fermentation and ceramics can open a space for mourning resilience and the imagination of a different" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rW9RhcGyN10) 2025-11-14T16:40Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Nan Goldin 'My Work Comes from Empathy and Love' TateShots 'My work has always come from empathy and love' says American photographer Nan Goldin. Goldin began taking photographs as a teenager in Boston Massachusetts. Her earliest works black-and-white images of drag queens were celebrations of the subcultural lifestyle of the community to which she belonged and which she continued to document throughout the 1990s. During this period Goldin also began making images of friends who were dying of AIDS and recorded her experiences travelling in Asia. In this interview Goldin introduces her latest" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_rVyt-ojpY) 2014-05-01T17:22Z 388K followers, 183.6K engagements "Richard Dadd The Artist and the Asylum TateShots Murder insanity and painting; the story of Richard Dadd is a fascinating one. Nicholas Tromans author of 'The Artist and the Asylum' heads behind the scenes at both the Tate and Cambridge's Fitzwilliam museum to tell us the tale of 'The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke' and the rarely seen version Dadd painted in watercolour 'Songe de la Fantasie' both of which Dadd painted whilst living inside asylums. Find out more about Richard Dadd: https://goo.gl/HoR3KN" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sOfVp8ifIlY) 2012-02-13T11:17Z 387K followers, 26K engagements "How to Paint Like Frank Bowling Tate Discover how painter Frank Bowling creates dazzling dripping compositions of colour. Frank Bowling was born in Guyana and moved to London to study Fine Art at the Royal Academy. To this day he continues to make work from his studios in London and New York. His paintings use a variety of bright acrylic paint colours and embedded objects that create unusual but mesmerising compositions. Two of his most well-known paintings in Tate's collection include 'Spreadout Ron Kitaj' and 'Sasha Jason Guyana Dreams'. Both of these paintings show how Bowling layers paint" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPrK1bBHrPw) 2019-08-06T16:19Z 388K followers, 295.3K engagements "'It's about direct connection with the landscape' Ro Robertson Tate Watch Cornwall-based artist Ro Robertson create a new installation in the galleries at Tate St Ives. The artwork Interlude responds to the tidal zone of Porthmeor Beach outside the gallery inspired by the ever-shifting boundary between land ocean and sky. Robertson approaches the landscape through the lens of LGBTQIA+ experience commenting we are part of a diverse natural world in constant flux where boundaries arent binary and rigid but rather flow in constant harmony. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSjZOFzAmIw) 2024-10-03T13:01Z 388K followers, [----] engagements "👻 Welcome to the Asylum of the Birds 🐦 Tate "We all believe in spirits or ghosts somehow or another" says photographer Roger Ballen. Which artworks give you the creeps Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=OAAs-tom5BM" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sbibo91mzuI) 2025-10-31T07:15Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Mario Ybarra Jr. TateShots We filmed artist Mario Ybarra Jr as he launched a one-day barber's competition at Sweeney Tate. In amongst the galleries at Tate Modern you might come across a barbershop complete with barber's chairs checkerboard floor and striped red and white pole at the entrance. This is Sweeney Tate (2007) an art installation named in homage to the legendary demon barber and modelled on a real barbershop in Los Angeles' Chinatown. Subscribe for weekly films about art: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_centeradd_user=tate" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sxyvzdl6sl8) 2008-08-06T14:39Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "How do artists imagine the world in [----] Tate A Year in Art: [----] is a two-room exhibition at Tate Modern exploring how visions of the future have taken shape in art across time. It brings together historic works by figures like Umberto Boccioni with contemporary voices including Ayoung Kim and Andra Ursua and Toyin Ojih Odutola. From shifting cityscapes to speculative technologies the exhibition invites us to reflect on the future were moving toward and how artists help us reimagine and think about what comes next. Take a closer look inside the exhibition with Michael Wellen Senior Curator" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=syvEK3NiYPY) 2025-07-01T14:04Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "'These are portraits of a country' George Shaw Tate Get to know British painter George Shaw whose evocative landscapes are shaped not by imagination but by memory. In this personal film Shaw reflects on growing up in suburban England and the quiet drama of everyday life. Best known for his meticulous enamel paintings of housing estates garages and woods he also discusses his evolving relationship with materials from pencils to watercolours and what it means to record the passage of time through art. Shaw speaks candidly about drawing inspiration from the place he knows best. His work captures" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tsKunA_23f0) 2025-05-19T13:04Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "First Encounter: Tai-Shan Schierenberg on Portrait of a Young Woman Tate Portrait painter Tai-Shan Schierenberg describes the first time he saw Meredith Frampton's painting Portrait of a Young Woman and how the piece has impacted his own work. Meredith Frampton painted Margaret Austin-Jones in a tall vertical format. This echoes the full-length portraits of women painted in the 17th and 18th centuries. However the precision with which Frampton paints combined with the works feeling of extreme stillness gives this work an uncanny modern tone. Frampton said that he made this painting to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tyJa8fDZzRI) 2024-03-26T08:30Z 390K followers, 72.3K engagements "Art Beyond Sight TateShots How might someone with limited sight experience a painting Tate Guide Lisa Squirrel draws on her own experience to share exhibitions with other visually-impaired visitors. Lisa Squirrel has congenital glaucoma and lost most of the sight in her left eye by the time she was [--]. Now with limited sight in her right eye also she regularly leads audio description tours in the gallery. Here she explores how her shared memories of visual experiences allow her to create images in the mind of those she speaks to many of whom are visually impaired themselves and how those" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u0NtUBQi5nU) 2014-11-07T18:02Z 388K followers, [----] engagements "Mire Lee creates an 'industrial womb' in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall Tate Drawing inspiration from Tate Modern's history as a power station Mire Lee has transformed the Turbine Hall with striking hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations. Hear from curators Alvin Li and Bilal Akkouche along with Production Manager Nancy Cooper on how the ghosts of industrial history influenced the artist and how the artwork has continued to evolve over the last few months. Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound in partnership with Hyundai Motor. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uUjkTAGFFYA) 2025-03-14T08:19Z 388K followers, [----] engagements "Nnena Kalu: Meet the Turner Prize [----] nominees Tate To create her sculptures Glasgow-born artist Nnena Kalu begins with a loop tube or structure that forms a base. Around these forms she wraps folds and knots streams of repurposed fabric rope tape cling film paper and VHS tape. These brightly coloured lengths and strips come together to form bundles sometimes resembling nests or cocoons. Finishing her works on site Kalu responds to the space and character of where she is working. Her drawings echo the sculptures often consisting of powerful vortexes made with swirling overlapping lines. Kalu" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=upu7iFEybZs) 2025-11-10T08:01Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "Sonia Boyce Gathering a History of Black Women TateShots Highlighting questions around race and cultural difference Sonia Boyce conveys political messages focusing on black representation and perceptions of the black body through her art. The British Afro-Caribbean artist gained prominence as part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s. Using drawing print photography performance and installation Boyce aims to shift notions of race that have pervaded since the abolition of slavery. We visited the London based artist in her studio to discover how she is reconstructing and gathering a history" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRB6H06UpJ4) 2018-07-27T14:54Z 387K followers, 30.6K engagements "Why Bridget Riley loves Constable 🎨 Tate ❤ Their paintings may not look similar at first glance but John Constable is one of Bridget Riley's all-time favourite artists. 🍿Hear more from Riley and three other contemporary artists on their love of Constable and JMW Turner in our new film: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=lRgRKqeMc2k 👀 See works by these nineteenth-century art heroes for yourself in Tate Britain's forthcoming show Turner and Constable - opening [--] November 2025: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-and-constable" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vvvUzArOxGU) 2025-09-10T06:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements "5 Facts: Wongs Life of Imitation Tate #art #contemporaryart #conceptualart #film Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wNqBVIk8nKI) 2025-03-12T08:00Z 387K followers, [----] engagements "The Universe of Alexander Calder with Dara Briain Comedian and Theoretical Physics graduate Dara Briain talks about his love of the cosmos and its connection with Alexander Calders mobiles. Calders work created a sensation in the [----] when he took sculpture liberated it and set it in motion. Calders work has fascinated many most famously Albert Einstein who reportedly stood mesmerised in front of A Universe [----] for its entire fortyminute cycle. Briain explores how Calders ground-breaking work is still important today. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture - http://goo.gl/e1zRWT Tate Modern:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjvYwbSjkBs) 2016-02-17T14:02Z 389K followers, 10.9K engagements "Art in Focus Cy Twombly's Large Swirling Fireworks Tate Cy Twomblywas a North American artist who spent much of his career in Italy. He was fascinated by the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. In his paintings he often referred to historical or mythological figures or included fragments of classical poetry. The three paintings in this series are named after Bacchus the Roman God of wine and intoxication known to the Greeks as Dionysus. They were made with a brush attached to the end of a pole enabling Twombly to capture the energy of an unbroken movement across a large canvas. The brush was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xSy3z4hEWGg) 2021-11-12T18:00Z 388K followers, 33.9K engagements "Do Ho Suh Staircase-III TateShots A gauzy red staircase floats high up in a gallery at Tate Modern in this installation by artist Do Ho Suh. Watching as the team pinned the fabric in place he told us about his inspiration. 'Staircase-III' is one of a number of works Suh has made based on his personal memories of architectural spaces both of his parents' traditional Korean house in Seoul and his own Western-style apartment in New York. 'The space I'm interested in is not only a physical one but an intangible metaphorical and psychological one' he has said" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xYEF_GXilu8) 2011-03-29T09:32Z 389K followers, 54.3K engagements "Portrait of the artist on fire 🔥 Meet Liliane Lijn Tate #art #contemporaryart Liliane Lijn is the American artist who pioneered the use of technology to make moving art. In the early 1960s Liliane Lijns kinetic sculptures placed her at the forefront of artists exploring new ways of using technology to "see the world in terms of light and energy." Over a six-decade career her work has continued to blaze a trail while defying categorisation. See her work in our new exhibition at Tate St Ives Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/liliane-lijn-arise-alive" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zzJM51DPAG8) 2025-06-05T07:01Z 390K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. 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"Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room TateShots Artist Yayoi Kusama's interactive Obliteration Room begins as an entirely white space furnished as a monochrome living room which people are then invited to 'obliterate' with multi-coloured stickers. Over the course of a few weeks the room was transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface. TateShots produced this time-lapse video of the Obliteration Room covering the first few weeks of its presentation at Tate Modern in [----]. It was first conceived as a project for children and"
YouTube Link 2012-03-14T18:41Z 390K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Sigmar Polke TateShots Snail juice meteor dust and potatoes. just some of the unusual materials explored by German artist Sigmar Polke. Sigmar Polke was one of the most significant German artists to emerge in the 1960s making art in a huge range of materials from painting drawing and film to potatoes snail juice and meteor dust. As an artist he responded to consumer society confronted the memory of the Nazi's and took hallucinogenic drugs. In this TateShots curator Mark Godfrey explains why he thinks Polke is "one of the most exciting and experimental artists of the last [--] years." Find out"
YouTube Link 2014-11-21T15:58Z 390K followers, 98.4K engagements
"What Turner's sketchbooks tell us about his love of travel Tate For JMW Turner sketchbooks allowed him to capture the world around him while he was travelling. The books came in all shapes and sizes containing beautifully detailed watercolours and the quickest of pencil sketches as well as shopping lists medical advice and language survival phrases. These drawings often formed the basis for large scale oil paintings once he was back in his studio. To mark [---] years since JMW Turners birth Assistant Conservator Arantza Dobbels Busto lets us look inside a selection of the [---] sketchbooks in"
YouTube Link 2025-04-23T13:05Z 390K followers, 55.8K engagements
"An Introduction to Performance Art TateShots Performance art relates to artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants which may be live or recorded spontaneous or scripted. In the 1960s performance was seen as fundamentally different from the art that could be collected or shown by art museums. It was live and ephemeral challenging traditional notions of art. But today performance has come to be seen as more a set of strategies available to contemporary artists one that is not inherently different from other art forms and not at all beyond what a"
YouTube Link 2017-09-22T16:25Z 390K followers, 468.9K engagements
"Artist Agnes Martin 'Beauty is in Your Mind' TateShots Agnes Martins restrained yet evocative paintings came from her belief that spiritual inspiration rather than intellect created great work. In this film which features rare archive footage of the artist in her studio in New Mexico her art dealer and confidant Arne Glimcher remembers Martins philosophical ideas about her work and her rigorous process in developing her paintings. Tate curator Frances Morris also reveals the mathematical precision behind Martins abstract masterpieces and the intense experimentation which led to her signature"
YouTube Link 2015-06-05T17:26Z 390K followers, 647.6K engagements
"Restoring Rothko Tate Filmed over [--] months this is the story behind the restoration of Mark Rothko's 'Black on Maroon'. Mark Rothko's 'Black on Maroon' [----] goes back on public view at Tate Modern on [--] May [----] following [--] months of intensive work by the Conservation team and colleagues across Tate. The painting one of the iconic Seagram murals which Rothko donated to Tate in [----] was vandalised with graffiti ink in October [----]. It has since been the subject of detailed research and restoration by the core treatment team of Rachel Barker Bronwyn Ormsby and Patricia Smithen. Over nine"
YouTube Link 2014-05-13T07:30Z 390K followers, 594.3K engagements
"How John Singer Sargent Painted Carnation Lily Lily Rose TateShots John Singer Sargent painted Carnation Lily Lily Rose between [----] and [----]. The inspiration for the painting came during a boating expedition Sargent took on the Thames at Pangbourne in September [----] with the American artist Edwin Austin Abbey during which he saw Chinese lanterns hanging among trees and lilies. Sargent began the picture while staying at the home of the painter F.D. Millet at Broadway Worcestershire shortly after his move to Britain from Paris. At first he used the Millets's five-year-old daughter Katharine as"
YouTube Link 2015-11-27T13:16Z 390K followers, 346.4K engagements
"Nike Davies-Okundaye: Meet the artist preserving Nigerias textile heritage Tate Step inside the Lagos gallery of Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye one of Nigerias most well-known textile artists and painters. As she guides us through her vibrant works we explore the revival of traditional art practices and meet her daughter Aina who continues the tradition of Yoruba storytelling through textiles. Through their hands we witness a living legacy of art heritage and the stories women pass down across generations. #NikeDaviesOkundaye #nigerianartist #textileart Nigerian Modernism is on view at Tate"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T12:43Z 390K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Mohammed Sami 'There's beauty in the question' Turner Prize [----] Tate Mohammed Sami reflects on his artistic process as he approaches a new canvas for the first time. Drawing from memories of his early life in Iraq Sami discusses the artists mindset and how everyday objects empty spaces light and shadow become vessels for a human presence to convey what is not there. By embracing ambiguity absence and repetition Sami invites viewers to always ask questions. Mohammed Sami is nominated for the [----] Turner Prize on display at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford [--] September [----] to 22"
YouTube Link 2025-10-06T08:09Z 390K followers, 23.4K engagements
"A walk through Istanbul with artist Hera Byktacyan 'What this ground remembers' Tate Artist Hera Byktayan takes us on a tour of Istanbul the city where she lives and works. Ever since a child walking has been a way for her to better understand this complex city which she describes as a "living organism". In this film we join Byktayan on her daily commute from the island of Heybeliada. Arriving in the city she explores the old district of Fatih encountering and observing paper collectors and carpet sellers Byzantine churches converted into Ottoman mosques. In a visit to her studio we see how"
YouTube Link 2022-12-09T07:30Z 390K followers, 37.9K engagements
"Philip Guston: the restless artist painting everyday evil Tate Note: This film includes reference to racism and imagery of racist violence and the Ku Klux Klan. Philip Guston thought hard about the artist's responsibility to bear witness to the brutality of the world. Consistently changing and reinventing he sought to make work that embodies lifes complexities its beauty absurdity humour and suffering. In this short film curators Michael Wellen and Michael Raymond conservator Anna Cooper and the artist's daughter Musa Mayer recount the story of Guston's life and career as well as his restless"
YouTube Link 2023-11-22T16:39Z 390K followers, 226.5K engagements
"Rene Mati 'Born British die British' Turner Prize [----] Tate Join Ren Mati on a trip back to their hometown of Peterborough. For Mati art is therapy a way to process and question identity family subcultures faith and what it means to belong while existing in the "in-betweenness" of many spaces. Drawing on their personal history Mati reflects on a fascination with skinhead subculture and the tensions of their suburban upbringing. Mati asks what we mean by 'Britishness' thinking beyond a fixed place and towards something they carry with them everywhere. Ren Mati is nominated for the [----] Turner"
YouTube Link 2025-09-30T08:36Z 390K followers, 16.3K engagements
"Swimming with dolphins in the Amazon 🐬 Tate Artist Emilija karnulyt reflects on swimming at the meeting point of two rivers in the Amazon a moment shaped by uncertainty dolphins and the call to immerse. #Shorts #Art #Artist #ContemporaryArt #Amazon Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio Artists Studio Contemporary Art Lecture Contemporary Artist Interview Art"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T18:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"How to Print Like Warhol Tate Discover how artist Andy Warhol made his colourful and iconic silkscreen prints. From Brillo boxes and black bean soup to portraits of films stars Andy Warhol is famous for his bright and bold paintings and prints that celebrate 1960s popular culture. This style of art is called pop art. Printmaking appealed to Warhol as it allowed him to repeat a basic image and create endless variations of it by using different colours or sometimes adding paint to the printed surface. Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves Andy Warhol In [----] Warhol"
YouTube Link 2018-03-14T13:00Z 390K followers, 814.1K engagements
"Ever been birdwatching at Tate Britain 🦅 👀 Tate For thousands of years birds have been an enduring subject of art from representing freedom good fortune and love to symbolising bad omens We joined Assistant Curator Tim Batchelor for a journey through our free display celebrating the wonder and beauty of birds on at Tate Britain until [--] June [----]. https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/historic-early-modern-british-art/birds"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"'The liveliness of Country' Emily Kam Kngwarray Tate Step into the world of artist Emily Kam Kngwarray an Anmatyerr woman from Alhalker Country in the Northern Territory Australia. In the 1970s she was introduced to making batiks and then started painting when she was in her seventies. Over [--] years she produced thousands of canvases and gained worldwide attention. Her work is based on deep cultural knowledge of her ancestral Country layering motifs representing the plants animals and geological features around her. Despite being held in major collections Tate Modern's new exhibition is the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-08T07:35Z 390K followers, 28.4K engagements
"How to Paint Watercolour Like Turner Part 1: Line Would you like to paint like Turner Watercolour expert Mike Chaplin might bring you one step closer. Art Mike Chaplin's turner publish:youtube cat:exhibitions date:24.06.2011 [----] learning watercolour channel:active Art Mike Chaplin's turner publish:youtube cat:exhibitions date:24.06.2011 [----] learning watercolour channel:active"
YouTube Link 2011-06-24T16:51Z 390K followers, 109.9K engagements
"Cy Twombly at Tate Modern TateShots Tate's Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern as he makes the final adjustments to the hang just before opening. A long-standing fan Serota talks about Twombly's technique his relationship to Turner and how the artist now in his eighties is still producing some of the most vital work of his career. One of the most highly regarded painters working today and a foremost figure among the generation of American artists that includes Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Twombly rose to"
YouTube Link 2008-09-03T13:03Z 390K followers, 234.6K engagements
"Zadie Xa 'Where inspirations lie' Turner Prize [----] Tate Zadie Xas art draws on ecology science fiction Korean folk art and ancestral storytelling. Through collaboration and sensory experience she invites viewers into landscapes that feel strangely familiar yet distant transforming questions of heritage displacement and community into powerful acts of storytelling. In this short film Xa talks to us about rituals narratives and the outsider energy of never fully feeling at home. Her work channels this search for identity where myth masquerade and play open a space for erased or forgotten"
YouTube Link 2025-10-13T06:09Z 390K followers, 23.5K engagements
"Andy Warhol at Tate Modern Exhibition Tour Tate Although our galleries are temporarily closed we wanted to share the Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern with you. Join Tate curators Gregor Muir and Fiontn Moran as they discuss Warhol through the lens of the immigrant story his LGBTQI identity and concerns with death and religion. Meet the man behind the brand. It's a Warhol you might not know with some artworks you may not have seen before. Andy Warhol re-opens at Tate Modern on [--] July and has been extended until [--] November [----]. Book tickets via our website:"
YouTube Link 2020-04-06T10:27Z 390K followers, 301.9K engagements
"Mret nne Sara 'New strategies for life on this planet' Tate We travel to the Arctic landscapes of Spmi to meet Mret nne Sara a Smi artist from a reindeer herding family. The reindeer is a cornerstone of Smi culture which recognises the interdependence and intrinsic value of all living beings. For the [----] Hyundai Commission Sara has created a multisensory installation entitled Goavve-Geabbil. It combines hides bones and wood derived from reindeer herding practices with industrial materials sound and scent to reflect on the destruction of ecosystems and the erosion of Smi culture due to mining"
YouTube Link 2025-12-22T16:26Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms at Tate Modern Tate Tate presents a rare chance to experience two of Yayoi Kusamas Infinity Mirror Rooms. These immersive installations will transport you into Kusamas unique vision of endless reflections. Infinity Mirrored Room Filled with the Brilliance of Life is one of Kusamas largest installations to date and was made for her [----] retrospective at Tate Modern. It is shown alongside Chandelier of Grief a room which creates the illusion of a boundless universe of rotating crystal chandeliers. A small presentation of photographs and moving image some on"
YouTube Link 2021-12-16T16:00Z 390K followers, 319.5K engagements
"Landscape painting in the age of climate crisis: why Turner and Constable still matter Tate Hear from four leading contemporary artists Bridget Riley Frank Bowling George Shaw and Emma Stibbon on why they love artists JMW Turner and John Constable and how painting the landscape can bring us closer to our personal pasts and our collective future. Turner and Constable opens at Tate Britain this November tickets are on sale now: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-and-constable Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T09:15Z 390K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Saodat Ismailova "We live in only one of the [-----] worlds" Tate Saodat Ismailova's films have a mysterious hypnotic quality drawing on folklore animism and traditional spiritual practices of Central Asia. Ismailova invited us to her studio in Paris to talk about how her ubringing in post-Soviet Uzbekistan inspires her to reconnect with ancestral knowledge through archives embroidery and conversations with an extinct tiger. Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films"
YouTube Link 2025-11-27T11:51Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"How to Weave Like Anni Albers Tate Ever wondered how a piece of fabric is made For this how to Textile Designer Rosa Pearks shows us how to weave a piece of fabric inspired by Anni Albers. If the film leaves you feeling really inspired follow our step-by-step below and find out more about Anni Albers: https://bit.ly/2OyyQ5H #AnniAlbers Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl Filmed at Central Saint Martins University of The Arts London in the Woven Textiles Workshop. To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St"
YouTube Link 2018-10-19T17:37Z 390K followers, 84.3K engagements
"Yayoi Kusama Obsessed with Polka Dots Tate The nine decades of artist Yayoi Kusamas life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media including painting drawing sculpture film performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery to soft sculpture known as Accumulations to her Infinity Net paintings made up of carefully repeated arcs"
YouTube Link 2012-02-06T14:39Z 390K followers, 3.1M engagements
"Nnena Kalu Body in Rhythm Line in Motion Turner Winner [----] Tate Step into the world of Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu who transforms her innate need to wrap layer and build into a powerful artistic language. From her earliest days working with line and colour through to her monumental installations of swirling vortexes Kalus practice is driven by rhythm and repetition that guides her movements and shapes her environments. This film discusses her journey making art from from disused shop spaces to major international exibitions exploring how her process has evolved from clustered bursts of colour"
YouTube Link 2025-09-23T12:15Z 390K followers, 18.6K engagements
"Why Study Art TateShots We asked leading artists actors filmmakers architects and choreographers why art should be on the curriculum. Watch their responses. Should art be on the curriculum Tell us your thoughts in the comments below. Featuring: David Hockney Yinka Shonibare MBE Michael Craig-Martin Catherine Opie Cate Blanchett Anne-Marie Imafidon Cornelia Parker Wolfgang Tillmans Amanda Levete Tania Bruguera Bob and Roberta Smith Michael Clark Jacqueline Wilson Alan Parker and Jeremy Deller. In October [----] a landmark research project commissioned by Arts Council England and involving"
YouTube Link 2018-10-12T17:00Z 390K followers, 491K engagements
"Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon Artist Interview TateShots When Damien Hirst was a kid he says 'All my paintings were like bad Bacons'. We invited Damien to Tate Britain to see the Francis Bacon retrospective. He tells us why he loves the Crucifixion and Head series': detail that vanishes the closer you get paint like blood and guts. 'That's probably why I love Bacon paintings. When I first saw them they reminded me of places I'd seen in nightmares.' Damien Hirst (Visual Artist) Francis Bacon (Visual Artist) Visual Arts (Field Of Study) Educational Film (Film Genre) Tate Gallery Britain"
YouTube Link 2008-12-03T12:32Z 390K followers, 183.9K engagements
"Martin Parr 'Photography is a Form of Therapy' TateShots Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate look at aspects of modern life in particular documenting the social classes of England. In [----] he opened the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol which aims to collect celebrate and raise the status of British documentary photographers. Find out more about Martin Parr: https://goo.gl/ztkMoL Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl Tate tateshots martin parr bristol Tate"
YouTube Link 2017-12-15T14:06Z 390K followers, 140.1K engagements
"Damien Hirst For the Love of God TateShots To accompany Tate Modern's major survey of Damien Hirst's work the artist's iconic diamond-covered skull 'For the Love of God' (2007) was shown in the Turbine Hall. butterfly cat:artist interviews publish:youtube podcast:TateShots Painter paint shark channel:active skull sculpture Art date:02.04.2012 [----] money Damien Hirst butterfly cat:artist interviews publish:youtube podcast:TateShots Painter paint shark channel:active skull sculpture Art date:02.04.2012 [----] money Damien Hirst"
YouTube Link 2012-04-04T09:15Z 390K followers, 132.6K engagements
"Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap Up the Reichstag Lost Art Christo and Jeanne-Claudes Wrapped Reichstag temporarily erased the famous landmark for two weeks in [----]. The Gallery of Lost Art was an online exhibition that told the stories of vanished artworks. Whether destroyed stolen discarded or erased some of the most significant artworks of the last [---] years have been lost and can no longer be seen. In [----] for their piece Wrapped Reichstag artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude covered the German landmark with [------] square metres of billowing silver-grey fabric tied by over fifteen kilometres"
YouTube Link 2015-07-30T13:13Z 390K followers, 166.5K engagements
"William Kentridge Art Must Defend the Uncertain Artist Interview TateShots William Kentridges studio in Johannesburg is a vital physical and psychic space where he conceives and develops his ambitious projects and artworks. William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints drawings and animated films which are usually developed from charcoal drawings and sketches. In this film he talks about how flexible charcoal is and how you can change the composition as quickly as you can change your mind. He also shows us around his studio where ideas conceived as drawings become"
YouTube Link 2018-04-20T15:05Z 390K followers, 221K engagements
"Thao Nguyen Phan 'My reflectionson the history of Vietnam the poetry of daily life' Tate Step inside the studio of artist Thao Nguyen Phan and discover her mesmerising poetic work. Through video paintings and sculpture Phan explores the historical and ecological issues facing her homeland Vietnam while speaking to broader ideas around tradition ideology ritual and environmental change. Her recent projects have expanded on the beauty and suffering of the Mekong River which runs through Tibet China Myanmar Thailand Laos and Cambodia before meeting the sea on the coast of Vietnam. Phans latest"
YouTube Link 2022-03-14T10:18Z 390K followers, 75.5K engagements
"Simone Rocha on Louise Bourgeois TateShots Simone Rocha is part of a new generation of British fashion designers who take inspiration from modern art. In celebration of London Fashion Week [----] we visit the designer in her East End studio to hear how the artist Louise Bourgeois has influenced her collections. From concepts through to fabric and textile choices Rocha talks us through some of her key pieces and how she relates to Bourgeois's life and work. tateshots simone rocha louise bourgeois fashion london fashion week [----] tate tateshots simone rocha louise bourgeois fashion london fashion"
YouTube Link 2012-09-13T16:25Z 390K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Maggi Hambling 'Every Portrait is Like a Love Affair' Artist Interview TateShots Maggi Hambling is a British painter and sculptor known for her intricate portraits and seascapes. The artist uses her creative practice as a grieving tool to cope with the loss of her loved ones such as Henrietta Moraes her mother and father. We visited the Suffolk-born artist in her home studio as she is now working of a series of laughing portraits. Find out more about Maggi Hambling: https://bit.ly/2n8frs5 Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email"
YouTube Link 2018-08-03T17:00Z 390K followers, 271.6K engagements
"What are Archives Animating the Archives This video series examines some of the stories behind Tates archives of British art exploring questions and processes that are emerging from their collection conservation and use. What does the word archive mean to you Hear from artists gallery volunteers and history experts about the sorts of things you can find in archives. What secrets do archives hold and how can your own experiences and possessions be of archival value Archives Tate Gallery Britain (Museum) Tate (Tourist Attraction) Tate Modern Animating the Archives Archival Khan Academy"
YouTube Link 2015-01-30T16:05Z 390K followers, 74.1K engagements
"Performance and Protest: Can Art Change Society How Art Became Active Ep. [--] of [--] TateShots We might think of Performance Art as something completely different to what's usually shown in museums. We're used to museums (like us) collecting and showing objects but performance is live and ephemeral. It happens and then it's gone. But more and more we're showing this sort of thing. In this series we invited art historian Jacky Klein to take a close look at five different ways in which performance is found inside and sometimes outside the museum so that (perhaps) it feels a little more familiar"
YouTube Link 2018-05-25T13:04Z 390K followers, 64.7K engagements
"Artist Damien Hirst at Tate Modern Tate Damien Hirst takes us through his [----] exhibition at Tate Modern with curator Ann Gallagher. Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in [----] when he conceived and curated Freeze an exhibition in a disused warehouse which showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. This is the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and brings together key works from"
YouTube Link 2012-04-04T11:07Z 390K followers, 390.4K engagements
"Lorna Simpson 'Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire' TateShots Old sports photographs and hair commercials provide inspiration for American artist Lorna Simpson. The artist uses combinations ofimage and text to examine the processes through which meaning and understanding take place. Here Simpson shows us how she arrived at this methodology and why her surroundings are so important to her work. #TateShots Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl tateshots tate gallery art artist lorna simpson Lorna Simpson (Visual Artist) contemporary art Lorna Simpson interview inspiration"
YouTube Link 2014-03-20T17:22Z 390K followers, 63.1K engagements
"Art Hoe Collective Meets Lorna Simpson Tate Collective Amandla Stenberg and Mars from Art Hoe Collective meet with Brooklyn based artist Lorna Simpson discussing the inspiration behind the #ArtHoe movement and how it relates to Simpsons work. Art Hoe Collective is an online platform providing young creatives of colour the opportunity to broadcast and share their artwork. Through social media the collective explore questions of race gender and sexuality. Its become a movement about self-acceptance and self-love as artwork - Amandla Stenberg of Art Hoe Collective Often using found materials"
YouTube Link 2016-07-22T10:30Z 390K followers, 54.1K engagements
"Pablo Picassos The Three Dancers TateShots Listen to the story behind one of Picassos most famous artworks in the Tate collection tell us what you think in the comments below Find out more about Pablo Picasso: https://goo.gl/L3wSzc Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl Tate tate modern picasso pablo picasso the three dancers tate collection art modern art three dancers Tate tate modern picasso pablo picasso the three dancers tate collection art modern art three dancers"
YouTube Link 2017-03-15T15:14Z 390K followers, 41.9K engagements
"Exploring the Surreal with Peter Capaldi Unlock Art Tate Need some help getting to grips with Surrealism The Doctor will see you now. Peter Capaldi a former art student and the latest actor to play Doctor Who settles down on Freud's couch to deliver his wry take on the Surrealist movement. 'Unlock Art' is Tate's new short film series offering a witty inside track on the world of art. Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi joins forces with rock duo The Kills comedian Frank Skinner Girls star Jemima Kirke and other celebrity art fans to introduce some of the big ideas that have shaped art history. A"
YouTube Link 2014-04-24T07:13Z 390K followers, 382.7K engagements
"Enter the underwater worlds of Emilija karnulyt Tate Artist Emilija karnulyt often places her own body at the centre of her work moving through environments and adopting hybrid mythical forms to explore underwater worlds and spaces rarely seen. Shifting between human and non-human perspectives she creates a way of looking that blurs the boundary between documentary and the imaginary. In this film we follow karnulyt as she swims through Arctic submarine bases and sacred river confluences in the Amazon reflecting on the physical experience of being in the water. The film also looks at Telstar a"
YouTube Link 2026-01-19T15:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"5 Times Artist Nam June Paik Predicted the Future Tate Nam June Paik was a truly global artist. Born in South Korea he lived and worked in Japan Germany and the United States. He was one of the first Asian artists who found success in the West. In his art Paik saw technology as a way to open up the world and connect with people in different countries beyond national borders and cultural differences. He experimented with TV broadcasting synthesizers and robots and was one of the first artists to use video as art. Discover how Nam June Paik predicted the future of"
YouTube Link 2019-12-20T18:00Z 390K followers, 119.5K engagements
"Ed Ruscha The Tension of Words and Images Artist Interview TateShots Ed Ruscha began his career as a layout artist at a Los Angeles advertising agency in the late 1950s. He has continued to draw on this background producing works that demonstrate an ongoing interest in typography signage and the West Coast of the United States. His creates paintings in which text is superimposed over landscapes and traditional American vistas where the bold lettering is in complete opposition to the idyllic idealised and somewhat kitsch representations of the images. Through this playful and"
YouTube Link 2013-05-23T16:17Z 389K followers, 133.6K engagements
"Jacques Herzog on Tate Modern TateShots Herzog and De Meuron have been behind some of the worlds most spectacular buildings from Beijings Olympic Stadium to the original Tate Modern nearly a decade ago. In [----] Tate Modern's ambitious new extension opened to the public. TateShots was given privileged access to the architects studio in Basel Switzerland when the work was underway. In our film Jacques Herzog talks about his excitement to be working on the project and why TM2 (as the new building project was known) would stand out in Londons busy skyline. Find out more about the Tate Modern"
YouTube Link 2008-12-03T12:23Z 390K followers, 84.1K engagements
"Child's Play: Matisse at Tate Modern With colours galore monkeys and a mermaid free entry for under-12's and special activities for kids Matisse at Tate Modern is a fantastic family day out. Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs Tate Modern: Exhibition [--] April -- [--] September [----] http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/henri-matisse-cut-outs"
YouTube Link 2014-05-20T14:57Z 388K followers, 74.8K engagements
"Hurvin Anderson 'Its questioning my history my place' Tate Artist Hurvin Anderson shares the inspiration and ideas behind his paintings and how he uses photography within his work. See his work in the Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s Now exhibition on at Tate Britain until [--] April [----]. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2022-01-07T07:45Z 387K followers, 57.9K engagements
"1840-1890 Meet [---] Years of British Art Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain from [----] to the present. This week Alison Smith explores the period 1840-1890 This room is part of the display: BP Walk through British Art"
YouTube Link 2013-07-03T11:03Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"Carl Andre 'Works of Art Don't Mean Anything' TateShots In this interview filmed at the artist's New York apartment Carl Andre discusses how materials are a natural part of his life and looks back at when his work hit the headlines recalling criticism such as 'you can't make art out of bricks'. Since the 1960s Carl Andre has made work that emphasises the inherent qualities of his materials. After a period carving sculpture he began arranging everyday materials in simple geometric configurations. Andre has described his method as scavenging for 'physical realities' and he has often sought"
YouTube Link 2014-04-10T19:26Z 390K followers, 102.2K engagements
"How to Paint Like Kandinsky Tate Ever wondered how Kandinsky painted his masterpieces Find out in this 'how to' with artist Sui. Material list: [--]. (Pre-primed) cotton canvas [--] x 70cm [--]. Oil brush no 3.8.12 [--]. Flat brush no [--] (for applying base layer) [--]. Slow Dry Retarder (type of medium) [--]. Soft Gel Semi Glass Medium (for certain finish once it dries up) [--]. Colours: Quinacridone Red/ Mars Black/Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade)/Yellow Light Hansa/ Mixing White/ Parchment/ Emerald Green/Naples Yellow Hue To see the full instructions and to find out more about Wassily Kandinsky:"
YouTube Link 2018-06-18T08:34Z 389K followers, 204.3K engagements
"Inside JMW Turners sketchbooks Tate #arthistory #history #drawing #sketching #sketchbook"
YouTube Link 2025-04-25T11:09Z 390K followers, 11.7K engagements
"A Life in [--] Artworks: Helen Chadwick Tate Helen Chadwick's work combines powerful imagery and visceral materials creating pieces that are both sensuous and unsettling. In this film we sit down with curators and those who knew the artist to explore her life career and the themes behind [--] of her key artworks. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Audio archive available at: www.bl.uk/nls"
YouTube Link 2025-03-25T08:00Z 390K followers, 11K engagements
"Rose Wylie 'I Like Big Work' TateShots Artist Rose Wylie takes inspiration for her paintings from film literature and even the scraps of newspaper articles on her studio floor. Often arranging her large-scale paintings in book formation so that they take on the angles found at the corner of a room Wylie's use of familiar imagery allows her to tell stories and explore themes of representation in narratives already in the public domain. Find out more about Rose Wylie: https://goo.gl/56ief2 #TateShots Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2013-09-12T15:23Z 389K followers, 86.6K engagements
"Mona Hatoum 'Nothing Is a Finished Project' TateShots Mona Hatoum creates a challenging vision of our world exposing its contradictions and complexities. TateShots visited the artist during the install of her first major survey at Tate Modern covering [--] years from her early radical performances and video pieces to sculptures and large-scale installations. The artist talks about her practice her materials and the artwork on display. Please note that at 0:36 the artwork 'Cellules' is spelled incorrectly. We apologise for this mistake. Mona Hatoum's work is currently on display at Tate Modern:"
YouTube Link 2016-05-09T14:08Z 388K followers, 52.1K engagements
"Kids React to Art - Cildo Meireles's Babel Tate #kidsreact #funnyvideo 📻 We asked kids to react to Cildo Meireles's Babel one of [--] artworks celebrating Tate Modern's 25th birthday and this is what they said"
YouTube Link 2025-07-02T15:33Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"How to Draw Like Paula Rego Tate Follow our step-by-step guide to pastel drawing with artist Katy Papineau. For further tips and details about this activity visit our website at https://bit.ly/2zoWj2q. Please note filming took place before the UK's lockdown measures were introduced. You will need: - A drawing board - An easel - Pastel paper - Hard pastels - Soft pastels - Conte pencils - White liquitex gesso - Black or dark grey acrylic paint - A wide paintbrush - Fixative - Masking tape - A selection of props All of the materials are available online or at your local art supply shop."
YouTube Link 2020-05-13T11:15Z 388K followers, 418.7K engagements
"Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern Creative playful and inventive Gabriel Orozco creates art in the streets his apartment or wherever he is inspired. Born in Mexico but working across the globe Orozco is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects which he subtly alters. Gabriel Orozco was shown at Tate Modern from [--] January - [--] April [----]. Subscribe for more artists: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_centeradd_user=tate"
YouTube Link 2011-01-21T15:07Z 389K followers, 165.3K engagements
"Shirin Neshat - 'Dreams Are Where Our Fears Live' Tate Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat uses film video and photography to explore issues of gender and identity with a particular focus on women's relationships with religious cultural systems of Islam. In [----] aged [--] Neshat moved from Iran to the United States to study art at the University of California Berkeley. During her absence the country became an Islamic republic following the [----] revolution. On returning in [----] she was struck by the cultural and political changes that had taken place one significant change being the introduction"
YouTube Link 2021-07-02T15:00Z 388K followers, 404.5K engagements
"Picassos Three Dancers: joyful celebration or dance of death 💃💃💃 Tate 👨🎨 A century after Pablo Picasso painted his famous Three Dancers experience the work in a new way in our recently-opened exhibition Theatre Picasso. 🎭 Contemporary artist Wu Tsang and author and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca have transformed the exhibition space into a theatre displaying over [--] works by Picasso. See it for yourself at Tate Modern until [--] April 2026: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/theatre-picasso"
YouTube Link 2025-09-19T11:44Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Alberto Giacometti 'A New Way of Thinking About Humanity' TateShots Celebrated as a sculptor painter and draughtsman Alberto Giacomettis distinctive figures are some of the most instantly recognisable works of modern art. Here curator and Director of Tate Modern Frances Morris highlights three key works in the artist's career. A new exhibition at Tate Modern reasserts Giacomettis place alongside the likes of Matisse Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter-sculptors of the twentieth century. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2017-05-11T13:12Z 387K followers, 190.7K engagements
"Doris Salcedo Shibboleth TateShots Colombian artist Doris Salcedo discusses why she split the turbine hall floor. Her new work Shibboleth is a long snaking fissure that ran the vast length of the Turbine Hall as if striking to the very foundations of the museum. Something similar might be said of the concept that underpins the piece. The word 'shibboleth' refers back to an incident in the Bible which describes how the Ephraimites attempting to flee across the river Jordan were stopped by their enemies the Gileadites. As their dialect did not include a 'sh' sound those who could not say the"
YouTube Link 2008-08-12T16:11Z 388K followers, 67.2K engagements
"Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival BMW Tate Live Coinciding with the Notting Hill Carnival Tate Modern presents Up Hill Down Hall: An indoor carnival a new performance commission guest curated by Claire Tanconsthat offers critical and artistic perspectives onCarnival. Informed by the history of the Notting Hill Carnival as it reaches a milestone half-century of existenceUp Hill Down Hallshowcases performances forhundreds of participants by artists Hew Lockeand Marlon Griffith against the backdrop of an architectural design by Gia Wolff and a soundscape by Dubmorphology (Gary Stewart and"
YouTube Link 2014-09-18T12:38Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"Tracey Emins My Bed at Tate Britain My Bed is displayed alongside six of Emins recent figure drawings as well as two oil paintings by Francis Bacon selected by Emin. Her installation as Bacons paintings do retains a strong sense of the lived presence and memory traces of past events. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/bp-spotlight-tracey-emin-and-francis-bacon BP Spotlight: Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon Part of the series BP Spotlights Tracey Emins installation My Bed [----] returns to Tate Britain after it first came to public attention when shown in the [----] Turner Prize"
YouTube Link 2015-03-30T08:03Z 388K followers, 70.8K engagements
"Tate Worlds Tate Creates Minecraft Worlds inspired by Art Tate Worlds are exciting Minecraft maps that present virtual environments inspired by artworks from Tates collection. The maps allow players of Minecraft to explore a range of paintings and sculpture undertaking various activities and challenges that relate to the themes of the artworks or exploring how they were made. Tate has teamed up with some of Minecrafts best known mapmakers to create these virtual artworks offering a unique combination of art history and adventure. The first Tate Worlds maps will be available to download for"
YouTube Link 2014-11-21T12:18Z 387K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Ask the Artist Questions for Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Tate Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye responds to questions from visitors to her [----] exhibition at Tate Britain. How does she know when an artwork is finished What music does she listen to while painting And has her Ghanaian heritage influenced her work Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. Both familiar and mysterious they invite viewers to project their own interpretations and raise important questions of identity and representation. See her exhibition at Tate Britain"
YouTube Link 2022-12-16T08:30Z 388K followers, 42.7K engagements
"Turner and the Masters Turner's Rivalry Turner and the Masters opens 23rd September [----] at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk Music by Sound Designers Anonymous www.illanon.com"
YouTube Link 2009-09-15T12:44Z 388K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Meredith Monk I Believe in the Healing Power of Art Artist Interview TateShots We visit performance artist Meredith Monk in her New York City studio. Meredith Monk is an American composer performer film-maker and interdisciplinary artist. She is primarily known for her vocal innovations. Monk's performances have influenced many artists including Bruce Nauman whom she met in San Francisco in [----]. She is the subject of an iconic photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe shot in [----]. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2017-11-03T11:25Z 387K followers, 114.8K engagements
"What was the Great Salt Hedge of India 🌳 Tate #contemporaryart #art 🧂 Over 2500km long the Hedge was grown by the British Empire in the Indian subcontinent between [----] and [----] separating the British-occupied Bengal Presidency from independent states. Part of the Inland Customs Line it was planted to prevent smuggling and enforce the British monopoly on salt. 📺 Artist duo Hylozoic/Desires excavate the archives of the Customs Line in their video installation The Hedge of Halomancy on display at Tate Britain until [--] August 2025: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/hylozoicdesires"
YouTube Link 2025-08-17T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"What is the Black Atlantic The Black Atlantic: Episode [--] Tate In episode one of our four-part mini-series culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun searches for a definition of the Black Atlantic drawing on the works of JMW Turner Ingrid Pollard Isaac Julien and Yinka Shonibare. In [----] Paul Gilroy published a ground-breaking book The Black Atlantic: Modernity & Double Consciousness which has forever left its mark on historical and cultural studies. The idea that there exists a culture which is African American Caribbean and British all at once has generated the rich and boundless space that is"
YouTube Link 2022-08-01T15:50Z 387K followers, 34.3K engagements
"'I'm painting in the technology of my time' Samia Halaby Tate Step inside the studio of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby one of the earliest innovators of digital art. In the mid-1980s Halaby bought an Amiga computer and taught herself how to code. With it she produced bold colourful 'kinetic paintings' consisting of vivid brightly coloured geometric shapes and slanting lines shifting restlessly in all directions. For Halaby these works were a continuation of the abstract paintings she had been creating in oils and acrylic since the 1960s. In this film we travel with Halaby from her"
YouTube Link 2025-04-09T12:27Z 388K followers, 26.4K engagements
"'It's not a dress rehearsal' Delaine Le Bas Tate Within her work Delaine Le Bas transforms her surroundings into monumental immersive environments filled with painted fabrics theatrical costumes and sculptures. Her art draws on the rich cultural history of the Roma people and mythologies focusing on themes of death loss and renewal. In this film Le Bas reflects on her identity grief and the intertwining of art and life. As she says: 'My whole life is just one whole thing. I don't think it's divided off really. What I'm like and what I dress like and then what I do. It's like one big piece of"
YouTube Link 2024-09-21T10:04Z 390K followers, 24.9K engagements
"'It's not enough just protesting' Arahmaiani Tate For artist and activist Arahmaiani art can be a form of reparation and healing. Her performances and community-based work offer a way of addressing historical violence by coming to terms with the past. In this short video watch Arahmaiani recreate her [----] work Burning Country in the galleries at Tate Modern. The work refers to traumatic events witnessed by the artist in her home country of Indonesia in May [----]. During a period of economic crises food shortages and unemployment students began demonstrating against the authoritarian regime of"
YouTube Link 2025-01-08T13:00Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"Artist David Salle 'Good Painting Has Immediate Impact' TateShots 'A good painting has immediate impact' says American artist David Salle 'but rewards a longer viewing time'. David Salle is an American painter printmaker and stage designer. From his New York studio the artist talks about the combination of images that go into one of his multi-layered paintings. The artist also explains how his interest in 'exploring the body in space' has led him to paint the bodies of his models and have them physically lifted onto his canvases to leave an imprint. Find out more about David Salle:"
YouTube Link 2012-06-07T16:53Z 388K followers, 645.3K engagements
"Explore the history of The Tanks at Tate Modern Tate Tate Modern's Director of Programme Catherine Wood explores the industrial history of Tate's underground art space The Tanks. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2024-02-23T16:00Z 388K followers, [----] engagements
"Wifredo Lam TateShots Wifredo Lam was born in Cuba in [----] of mixed heritage and pursued a successful artistic career on both sides of the Atlantic. He was closely associated Pablo Picasso and members of the surrealist movement like Andr Breton. In this film the artist's son recounts his father's story and shares his memories. His work poetically addresses themes of social injustice nature and spirituality and was greeted internationally with both consternation and acclaim. A witness to twentieth-century political upheaval throughout his long career including the Spanish Civil War and the"
YouTube Link 2016-08-04T11:44Z 390K followers, 40K engagements
"Artist Claudette Johnson 'Giving Space to the Presence of a Black Woman' Artist Claudette Johnson uses painting and drawing as a means to explore representations of Black women (and sometimes men). Here she talks about how her personal experience of being a Black woman and an Artist has shaped her work. Johnson's subjects are people she knows well often drawn from life; a process which allows her to project the presence of the person she is drawing. Each large-scale artwork boasts a rich colour palette. Completed at the time of filming is her most vibrant yet 'Kind of Blue' which features"
YouTube Link 2021-04-12T16:00Z 388K followers, 40.8K engagements
"Jonathan Olley Exposed at Tate Modern British Artist Jonathan Olley describes how his former job as a newspaper photojournalist lead him to discover the secret surveillance towers of Northern Ireland. Jonathan Olley is a British artist and documentary photographer. His work 'Castles of Ulster '1981 is on display in Exposed: Voyeurism Surveillance and the Camera at Tate Modern until [--] October [----]. Part of a series of Exposed interviews available for free on your mobile phone at Tate Modern: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/exposure/mobile/"
YouTube Link 2010-07-05T11:12Z 388K followers, [----] engagements
"Step inside Magdalena Abakanowicz's forest of woven sculptures Tate In the 1960s Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz began making large-scale woven sculptures that defied all categorisation. They seemed like coats or cocoons that tempted you to crawl inside or hairy living creatures suspended from the gallery ceiling. The critics did not know what to make of them and called them 'Abakans' - perhaps the only example of an art form named after their artist. In this film curator Ann Coxon leads us through a 'forest' of these towering Abakans exploring how Abakanowicz pioneered a whole new form"
YouTube Link 2023-01-06T13:55Z 389K followers, 394.5K engagements
"Felicia Browne: Unofficial War Artist Animating the Archives Through her archive this film uncovers the work and untimely death of Felicia Browne a young artist who lost her life in the first months of the Spanish Civil War in [----]. This event reverberates through the work of artist Sonia Boue here reflecting on the significance of British volunteers like Browne who helped republican exiles like her father"
YouTube Link 2016-03-01T10:53Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Mohammed Sami: Meet the Turner Prize [----] nominees Tate Devoid of people Mohammed Sami's paintings take the form of landscapes and still-lifes. These scenes might appear serene or without a narrative but closer viewing reveals clues that hint toward more complex meanings. Watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=HN8OwolwTtU Sami is nominated for the Turner Prize [----] for his solo exhibition After the Storm at Blenheim Palace. See the Turner Prize exhibition on display at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford until [--] February [----]. The winner of the Turner Prize [----] will be"
YouTube Link 2025-11-25T07:30Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Tony Cragg 'Be There See It Respond to It' TateShots Tony Cragg is one of Britain's leading sculptors. Born in Liverpool in [----] Tony's love of the natural world as a child was the catalyst for a lifelong fascination with material and form. In this film he talks through the process of creating some of his most recent work introducing us to the team who help him to realise his unique vision for structure and form. Now based in Wuppertal Germany in [----] he opened the 'Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden'. Open to the public the sculpture park houses a steadily growing and changing collection of"
YouTube Link 2018-04-13T13:37Z 388K followers, 109.1K engagements
"Curing the Vampire: Gilberto Gil Gene Ware and Tilda Swinton Part of a series of interviews undertaken by artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (playing Gene Ware a character from the virtual world of Second Life) and actress Tilda Swinton. In this episode Gilberto Gil discusses his exile from Brazil and his involvement in The Tropiclia movement how after living and playing music in London he returned to Brazil eventually taking up the position of Minister for Culture where he continues to promote free culture. Commissioned by Tate's Intermedia Art programme copyright Lynn Hershman Leeson 2008"
YouTube Link 2009-08-05T11:31Z 387K followers, [---] engagements
"Zohra Opoku 'Time is the best friend for an artist' Tate Artist Zohra Opoku trained as a fashion and textiles designer and her works combine fabric with photography to interrogate identity. In pieces like Queens and Kings (2017) she explores the ways that tradition and globalisation intersect in modern day Ghana. In this short film Opoku invites us into her studio in Accra Ghana to witness her collaborative approach to art-making. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2023-11-02T12:45Z 388K followers, 20K engagements
"'It's difficult to defend yourself when the arguments are future global life' Mret nne Sara Artist Mret nne Sara explains how part of her Hyundai Commission: Goavve-Geabbil is inspired by the 'locked pastures' of her native Spmi and the impact of the climate crisis on its Indigenous communities. Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/aqFriolQpY0 See the Hyundai Commission [----] on free display until [--] April 2026: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/maret-anne-sara Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T07:15Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Grayson Perry 'Pottery Is My Gimmick' TateShots Take a look inside the London studio of artist Grayson Perry. Describing pottery as his 'gimmick' Perry demonstrates his process and explains why he wants people to be able to just enjoy art rather than having to interpret it. #TateShots Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2011-10-14T16:42Z 389K followers, 180K engagements
"Turner and the Masters Turner's Ambition Turner and the Masters opens 23rd September [----] at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk Music by Sound Designers Anonymous www.illanon.com"
YouTube Link 2009-09-15T12:45Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"Enter the Mothership: artist Yto Barrada's Tangier garden Tate The Mothership is a garden on the Strait of Gibraltar and yet much more than that. It's a residence and a retreat a dye garden an experimental lab and a family home. It's a place where artists gardeners writers and poets can find the time and space to restore themselves to work and study. In this film artist Yto Barrada invites us into the Mothership as well as to the Cinmathque de Tanger two important centres of art and 'inventivity' in the city of Tangier Morocco. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate"
YouTube Link 2024-05-29T12:24Z 389K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Jimmie Durham's artwork at Tate Modern Tate This video takes you behind the scenes installing a display of works by artist Jimmie Durham at Tate Modern. This footage was filmed in December [----]. Jimmie Durham was born in [----] in the US. Durhams art incorporates a range of media and processes such as sculptural assemblage painting drawing collage printmaking photography video performance and poetry. Many of Durham's include whatever materials were near to hand and accessible for the artist including stone wood and animal bones and hides alongside car parts plastic and metal pipe glass and"
YouTube Link 2023-01-23T14:09Z 388K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Eva Rothschild TateShots You use what you need to get what you want. Eva Rothschild explores her use of materials in her sculptural works. In this video Rothschild discusses the importance of the choice of materials she works with explaining how she manipulates these choices to give the appearance either of something pristine and untouched or of something that very much bears the touch of the artists hand. She also touches on how an artist can never see their own work as as the viewer does as one can never discover ones own work"
YouTube Link 2014-07-24T14:40Z 388K followers, 43.2K engagements
"Terry Riley's In C Mali Live at Tate Modern Tate Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley's 'In C Mali' to mark the fiftieth anniversary of composer Terry Rileys world-renowned composition 'In C'. Classical conductor Andr de Ridder re-imagines Rileys famous piece with help from members of Africa Express including innovative African artists Bijou and Adama Koita and Blur frontman Damon Albarn. In the interactive version (click the link below) the footage of the live performance is inter-cut with interactive options that allow the viewer to immerse themselves in an ode to Minimalism."
YouTube Link 2015-02-10T16:10Z 388K followers, 263.8K engagements
"Kids React to Art: Dals Lobster Telephone Tate #funnyvideo #kidsreact We asked kids to react to Salvador Dali's Lobster Telephone one of [--] artworks celebrating Tate Modern's 25th birthday and this is what they said"
YouTube Link 2025-05-21T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Transforming Tate Modern Nicholas Serota Director of Tate and Jacques Herzog Architect Herzog & de Meuron talk about the Transforming Tate Modern building project. This iconic new building will create more spaces for displaying the Collection for performance and installation art and for learning about art as well as creating more social spaces for visitors to relax and unwind in the gallery. More about the project: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/transformingtm/"
YouTube Link 2010-05-07T10:49Z 388K followers, 40.2K engagements
"Liliane Lijn on her sculpture Queen of Hearts ♥ Tate Lijn has spent the last six decades creating kinetic sculptures like this one which help us "see the world in terms of light and energy." 💡 🏃♀ 🌊 See Lijn's work for yourself in the exhibition Arise Alive at Tate St Ives until [--] November 2025: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/liliane-lijn-arise-alive"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T14:08Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Dia Al-Azzawi 'The World is a Small Village' Artist Interview TateShots Dia Al-Azzawi is one of Iraq's most influential living artists. Having moved to the UK in [----] Al-Azzawi found that by viewing Iraq from afar he could understand more about Iraqi and Arabic culture than if he had remained. Al-Azzawi's vast drawing Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982--3 is an example of work that arose from this process ofobservation. Made in response to the [----] massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut by Christian Lebanese Phalangists the killings took place over several days in refugee camps kept under"
YouTube Link 2012-11-01T10:56Z 387K followers, 61.9K engagements
"Frank Bowling From Figuration to Abstraction Artist Interview TateShots The artist reflects on his career and the impact of moving from London to New York. 'I realised that one of the main ingredients in making paintings was colour and geometry' says the artist. Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) in [----] at [--] years old Frank Bowling moved to London. He went on to study painting at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. As Bowling reflects on his long career he remarks that his shift from figuration to abstraction came when he moved from London to New York. 'As I"
YouTube Link 2012-04-19T10:17Z 387K followers, 118.7K engagements
"Keren Cytter 'Everybody Likes Revolution' TateShots We speak to Keren Cytter and members of her dance company D.I.E at Tate Modern November [----]. 'History in the Making or the Secret Diaries of Linda Schultz' is a new live theatre piece by Israeli artist Keren Cytter created in collaboration with D.I.E. Now (Dance International Europe) a theatre group recently formed by Cytter. John Webber a political activist and Linda Schultz a graphic designer awake one morning to discover they have each been subject to an unexpected and radical sex change. The repercussions of this event have a domino"
YouTube Link 2010-01-08T14:15Z 389K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Artist Daido Moriyama In Pictures Tate Daido Moriyama uses an ordinary compact camera and never stops shooting. The artist is the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. In this film Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes us on a walk around the atmospheric Shinjuku neighbourhood his home from home in Tokyo. Moriyama's work was featured in the exhibition William Klein + Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern [--] October [----] - [--] January [----]. Find out more about Daido Moriyama: https://goo.gl/qUsU3a Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2012-10-18T15:33Z 387K followers, 567.4K engagements
"Gustav Klimt TateShots The Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool was a highlight of Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture. We sent art critic Nick Hackworth to see the show which as well as paintings by Klimt featured work by his contemporaries in the Viennese Secession a progressive group of artists architects furniture and fashion designers who shared a common artistic vision. Find out more about Klimt and the Viennese Secession: https://goo.gl/RdcmHu"
YouTube Link 2008-09-03T12:23Z 388K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Warp x Tate Warp Records and Jeremy Deller Late at Tate Britain presents a free evening of performance and installations from Warp Records andJeremy Deller inspired by Deller's workThe History of the World. Meet the artist himself and some of the main contributors to the event in our short film. The film is one of a series in which leading creatives share artworks from Tate Britain's collection that have inspired them. See more on the Tate website: http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/meet-tate-britain"
YouTube Link 2013-12-09T18:00Z 388K followers, [----] engagements
"Roy Lichtenstein Diagram of an Artist Tate Roy Lichtenstein is renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots. This film brings together archival footage of Lichtenstein at home and at work in his studio as well as interviews with his wife Dorothy and friend Frederic Tuten to create an intimate portrait of the artist. A retrospective exhibition of Lichtensteins work including [---] of the artists most definitive works was shown at Tate Modern in [----]. Find out more about Roy Lichtenstein: https://goo.gl/D4Bi4U"
YouTube Link 2013-02-01T17:56Z 387K followers, 211.1K engagements
"Harrell Fletcher BMW Tate Live Performance artist Harrell Fletcher talks about his process and past work and divulges his plans for his turn in the BMW Performance Room. Watch his performance LIVE on YouTube - Thursday 28th June at 8pm. http://www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive"
YouTube Link 2012-06-21T13:40Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"Sin Wai Kin 'I want people to exist in my world' Turner Prize Nominee [----] Tate Explore the universe of artist Sin Wai Kin populated by a cast of characters who challenge binary ways of thinking. Sins practice pivots around the use of speculative fiction within performance moving image writing and print to question the idealised image and the collective gaze. Identifying as mixed race and non-binary their work creates fantasy narratives to interrupt normative processes around issues of desire identification and objectification. Sins use of performance and particularly drag began as a means of"
YouTube Link 2022-10-14T06:14Z 390K followers, 43K engagements
"Allora and Calzadilla at the Venice Biennale [----] TateShots Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have been collaborating since [----] their work spans many mediums - sculpture photography performance sound and video. Find out more about Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla: https://goo.gl/eoRssL"
YouTube Link 2011-06-09T10:02Z 389K followers, 15.1K engagements
"Gary Hume Studio Visit TateShots 'I only get pleasure while painting if there is a problem and when I solve that problem I need to make another one' says Gary Hume. Part of the internationally celebrated group of 'Young British Artists' that studied at London's Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s Hume has gone on to become one of Britain's most highly respected painters. In this film made on the eve his new show at Tate Britain Hume invites TateShots into his studio and talks about his working practice and his famous preference for household gloss paints"
YouTube Link 2013-05-31T13:45Z 389K followers, 110.4K engagements
"Performance at the New Tate Modern New Tate Modern Opening [--] June 2016"
YouTube Link 2015-12-04T12:19Z 388K followers, [----] engagements
"The Guerrilla Girls and The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist Tate #photography #activistart Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio Artists Studio Contemporary Art Lecture Contemporary Artist Interview Art History Famous Artist Famous Artworks Famous Art How to get inspiration for art Famous Living Artist Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio"
YouTube Link 2025-05-28T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Late at Tate Borders & Territories"
YouTube Link 2011-07-21T11:58Z 389K followers, [----] engagements
"Monster Chetwynd's A Tax Haven Run By Women Tate #contemporaryart"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T07:00Z 389K followers, [----] engagements
"Art in Focus Loveday and Ann by Frances Hodgkins Tate Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers by artist Frances Hodgkins. Hear a detailed description of the painting and learn more about how the artist made the work. Loveday and Ann were two young women daughters of fishermen from St Ives in Cornwall where New Zealand-born Hodgkins was living in [----]. While in Cornwall and also during stays in Paris Hodgkins developed her distinctive representative style and characteristic use of colour. At her death in [----] she was considered"
YouTube Link 2020-10-07T08:36Z 388K followers, 25.5K engagements
"Ask the Artist Questions for Tania Bruguera TateShots Watch Cuban artist Tania Bruguera answer questions about her 2018-19 Tate Modern Hyundai Commission submitted by the public. Tania Brugueras Hyundai Commission in Tate Moderns Turbine Hall asks museum visitors to experience a community-driven response to the global migration crisis. The acclaimed Cuban artist and activist has created a series of subtle interventions in and around Tate Modern. The works title is an ever-increasing figure: the number of people who migrated from one country to another last year added to the number of migrant"
YouTube Link 2018-11-16T18:05Z 388K followers, 22.7K engagements
"Rene Mati: Meet the Turner Prize [----] nominees Tate "All I had to do was you know be born." Rene Mati returns to their hometown of Peterborough telling us about their "obsession with understanding Britishness - or not understanding it". Watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=KQet8jCoqOQ Mati works primarily with photography as well as sculpture textiles sound and other mediums. Their artwork questions identity society and how we find a sense of belonging. They are nominated for the Turner Prize [----] for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH at CCA Berlin. See the Turner"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T08:30Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"'The spiritual properties of colour' who were the Blue Rider Tate The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) was an informal collective of modern expressionist artists who came together in Munich Germany in the early twentieth century. Members of the group included Wassily Kandinsky Gabriele Mnter Franz Marc August Macke Elisabeth Epstein Marianne Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky. In this short film curator Natalia Sidlina and art historian Dorothy Price explain how the group wanted to explore the emotional and spiritual dimensions of art emphasising abstraction symbolism and expressive mark-making. Jazz"
YouTube Link 2024-08-22T11:16Z 388K followers, 42.6K engagements
"Painting trees 🌲🌳 : a silly thing to do Tate #art #contemporaryart British painter George Shaw on 'humble' picture-making and the universal appeal of drawing. Watch the full film: https://youtu.be/tsKunA_23f0si=YSu7N0cXMz_PYZAc Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk Tate Tate Modern Tate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives Art Modern Art Contemporary Art British Art Art Documentary Short Art Documentary Artists in their studio Artists Studio Contemporary Art Lecture Contemporary Artist Interview Art History Famous"
YouTube Link 2025-06-12T13:47Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Barbara Walker Its like life itself like the air I breathe Tate In this film visual artist Barbara Walker MBE RA shows us around her studio in Birmingham and talks about the themes present in her practice including temporality power and body politics. We also see her creating a free-hand wall drawing in Towner Gallery as part of her series Burden of Proof whereby she creates large-scale in-situ portraits of individuals affected by the Windrush Scandal Barbara Walker is nominated for the [----] Turner Prize hosted by Towner Eastbourne. The winner will be announced on [--] December [----]. Subscribe"
YouTube Link 2023-10-18T11:12Z 388K followers, 267.6K engagements
"Josh O'Connor's favourite Tate memories ☀ We caught up with The Mastermind actor Josh O'Connor as he chats Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project our current Hyundai Commission by Maret Anne Sara and his own artistic inspirations ✨"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T10:49Z 390K followers, 55.5K engagements
"Art in Focus White and Yellow by Marlow Moss Tate Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of White and Yellow by artist Marlow Moss. Hear a detailed description of the painting and learn more about how the artist made the work. Moss produced abstract artworks based on mathematical systems and proportions. White and Yellow is one of the earliest works Moss made with string and canvas. The work is strikingly geometrical. All angles are right angles and lines and elements within the design are parallel with the edges of the base canvas and with each other. Subscribe for weekly films:"
YouTube Link 2020-11-11T16:53Z 388K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Mark Rothko at Tate Modern TateShots In 2008/09 Tate Modern presented an exhibition of the late works of Mark Rothko. The show's curator Achim Borchardrt-Hume takes us on a tour featuring the iconic Seagram Murals Black-Form paintings and the Black on Grey paintings -- the last series made before Rothko's death in [----]. We find out how much importance Rothko placed on the way his work was displayed and why these mysterious rectangles of layered pigment hold such enduring appeal. Find out more about Mark Rothko: https://goo.gl/8K3NMn Mark Rothko (Visual Artist) Tate Modern London (Museum) Art"
YouTube Link 2008-10-15T16:19Z 390K followers, 142.2K engagements
"Fernando Palma Rodrguez on why we must humanise technology Tate #art #contemporaryart "If it does not have a commitment to the environment to what we are causing then art has no social function." Watch the full film about Nahua artist Fernando Palma Rodrguez on our channel: https://youtu.be/-hlw0aL_OGMsi=1cfcYJ-qO6qLj1f1"
YouTube Link 2025-06-18T07:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Francis Als The Last Clown TateShots Belgian artist Francis Als talks about his work The Last Clown (1995-2000) an installation that comprises animation drawings and paintings all depicting the same incident: a man tripping over a dog in a park. Als explains how this absurd real life event can be read as a metaphor for the predicament of the artist"
YouTube Link 2008-08-13T13:26Z 387K followers, 36K engagements
"Performing Sculpture Earle Brown's Calder Piece TateShots Earle Brown was a major force in contemporary music and the American avant-garde since the 1950s and the creator of open form a style of musical construction greatly indebted to the works of Alexander Calder. In [----] Brown and Calder embarked on a musical collaboration for which Calder made Chef dorchestre where four percussionists are conducted by the mobile. Some [---] percussion instruments are employed in a performance where the movement of the sculpture is read by the percussionists responding to the varying configuration of its"
YouTube Link 2015-11-23T13:38Z 390K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Ken Loach Inspired by William Hogarth Ken Loach brings his cinematic eye to the art of William Hogarth. As he completes what may be his last feature film 'Jimmy's Hall' a period drama set in 1930's Ireland Ken Loach reflects on the connections between art and filmmaking and explains why he'd rather spend time with William Hogarth and his servants than any of the fine dandies in other portraits on show at Tate Britain. The film is one of a series in which leading creatives share artworks from Tate Britain's collection that have inspired them. 'Jimmy's Hall' is released in [----] See more on the"
YouTube Link 2013-11-26T10:19Z 390K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Water Walks: Taey Iohe in Walthamstow Wetlands Tate Artist and writer Taey Iohe guides us through a meditative act of self-disovery in the tranquil setting of London's Walthamstow Wetlands. Iohe was one of the artists who appeared as part of the three-day symposium Waterways: Arteries rhythms and kinship at Tate Modern in September [----]. Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl"
YouTube Link 2024-12-02T18:50Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"5 Facts: Matisses The Snail 🐌 Tate #art #artist #abstractart #matisse"
YouTube Link 2025-02-28T16:01Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"Mirna Bamieh "it affects what we put on our plate as Palestinians" Tate Artist Mirna Bamieh creates spaces installations tables performances and shared experiences that explore ideas of disappearance and memory. She is the founder of Palestine Hosting Society a live art project that explores traditional food culture in Palestine especially those that are on the verge of disappearing. In this short film Bamieh invites us into her kitchen and studio and asks us to think about how cooking fermentation and ceramics can open a space for mourning resilience and the imagination of a different"
YouTube Link 2025-11-14T16:40Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Nan Goldin 'My Work Comes from Empathy and Love' TateShots 'My work has always come from empathy and love' says American photographer Nan Goldin. Goldin began taking photographs as a teenager in Boston Massachusetts. Her earliest works black-and-white images of drag queens were celebrations of the subcultural lifestyle of the community to which she belonged and which she continued to document throughout the 1990s. During this period Goldin also began making images of friends who were dying of AIDS and recorded her experiences travelling in Asia. In this interview Goldin introduces her latest"
YouTube Link 2014-05-01T17:22Z 388K followers, 183.6K engagements
"Richard Dadd The Artist and the Asylum TateShots Murder insanity and painting; the story of Richard Dadd is a fascinating one. Nicholas Tromans author of 'The Artist and the Asylum' heads behind the scenes at both the Tate and Cambridge's Fitzwilliam museum to tell us the tale of 'The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke' and the rarely seen version Dadd painted in watercolour 'Songe de la Fantasie' both of which Dadd painted whilst living inside asylums. Find out more about Richard Dadd: https://goo.gl/HoR3KN"
YouTube Link 2012-02-13T11:17Z 387K followers, 26K engagements
"How to Paint Like Frank Bowling Tate Discover how painter Frank Bowling creates dazzling dripping compositions of colour. Frank Bowling was born in Guyana and moved to London to study Fine Art at the Royal Academy. To this day he continues to make work from his studios in London and New York. His paintings use a variety of bright acrylic paint colours and embedded objects that create unusual but mesmerising compositions. Two of his most well-known paintings in Tate's collection include 'Spreadout Ron Kitaj' and 'Sasha Jason Guyana Dreams'. Both of these paintings show how Bowling layers paint"
YouTube Link 2019-08-06T16:19Z 388K followers, 295.3K engagements
"'It's about direct connection with the landscape' Ro Robertson Tate Watch Cornwall-based artist Ro Robertson create a new installation in the galleries at Tate St Ives. The artwork Interlude responds to the tidal zone of Porthmeor Beach outside the gallery inspired by the ever-shifting boundary between land ocean and sky. Robertson approaches the landscape through the lens of LGBTQIA+ experience commenting we are part of a diverse natural world in constant flux where boundaries arent binary and rigid but rather flow in constant harmony. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To"
YouTube Link 2024-10-03T13:01Z 388K followers, [----] engagements
"👻 Welcome to the Asylum of the Birds 🐦 Tate "We all believe in spirits or ghosts somehow or another" says photographer Roger Ballen. Which artworks give you the creeps Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=OAAs-tom5BM"
YouTube Link 2025-10-31T07:15Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Mario Ybarra Jr. TateShots We filmed artist Mario Ybarra Jr as he launched a one-day barber's competition at Sweeney Tate. In amongst the galleries at Tate Modern you might come across a barbershop complete with barber's chairs checkerboard floor and striped red and white pole at the entrance. This is Sweeney Tate (2007) an art installation named in homage to the legendary demon barber and modelled on a real barbershop in Los Angeles' Chinatown. Subscribe for weekly films about art: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_centeradd_user=tate"
YouTube Link 2008-08-06T14:39Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"How do artists imagine the world in [----] Tate A Year in Art: [----] is a two-room exhibition at Tate Modern exploring how visions of the future have taken shape in art across time. It brings together historic works by figures like Umberto Boccioni with contemporary voices including Ayoung Kim and Andra Ursua and Toyin Ojih Odutola. From shifting cityscapes to speculative technologies the exhibition invites us to reflect on the future were moving toward and how artists help us reimagine and think about what comes next. Take a closer look inside the exhibition with Michael Wellen Senior Curator"
YouTube Link 2025-07-01T14:04Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"'These are portraits of a country' George Shaw Tate Get to know British painter George Shaw whose evocative landscapes are shaped not by imagination but by memory. In this personal film Shaw reflects on growing up in suburban England and the quiet drama of everyday life. Best known for his meticulous enamel paintings of housing estates garages and woods he also discusses his evolving relationship with materials from pencils to watercolours and what it means to record the passage of time through art. Shaw speaks candidly about drawing inspiration from the place he knows best. His work captures"
YouTube Link 2025-05-19T13:04Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"First Encounter: Tai-Shan Schierenberg on Portrait of a Young Woman Tate Portrait painter Tai-Shan Schierenberg describes the first time he saw Meredith Frampton's painting Portrait of a Young Woman and how the piece has impacted his own work. Meredith Frampton painted Margaret Austin-Jones in a tall vertical format. This echoes the full-length portraits of women painted in the 17th and 18th centuries. However the precision with which Frampton paints combined with the works feeling of extreme stillness gives this work an uncanny modern tone. Frampton said that he made this painting to"
YouTube Link 2024-03-26T08:30Z 390K followers, 72.3K engagements
"Art Beyond Sight TateShots How might someone with limited sight experience a painting Tate Guide Lisa Squirrel draws on her own experience to share exhibitions with other visually-impaired visitors. Lisa Squirrel has congenital glaucoma and lost most of the sight in her left eye by the time she was [--]. Now with limited sight in her right eye also she regularly leads audio description tours in the gallery. Here she explores how her shared memories of visual experiences allow her to create images in the mind of those she speaks to many of whom are visually impaired themselves and how those"
YouTube Link 2014-11-07T18:02Z 388K followers, [----] engagements
"Mire Lee creates an 'industrial womb' in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall Tate Drawing inspiration from Tate Modern's history as a power station Mire Lee has transformed the Turbine Hall with striking hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations. Hear from curators Alvin Li and Bilal Akkouche along with Production Manager Nancy Cooper on how the ghosts of industrial history influenced the artist and how the artwork has continued to evolve over the last few months. Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound in partnership with Hyundai Motor. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To"
YouTube Link 2025-03-14T08:19Z 388K followers, [----] engagements
"Nnena Kalu: Meet the Turner Prize [----] nominees Tate To create her sculptures Glasgow-born artist Nnena Kalu begins with a loop tube or structure that forms a base. Around these forms she wraps folds and knots streams of repurposed fabric rope tape cling film paper and VHS tape. These brightly coloured lengths and strips come together to form bundles sometimes resembling nests or cocoons. Finishing her works on site Kalu responds to the space and character of where she is working. Her drawings echo the sculptures often consisting of powerful vortexes made with swirling overlapping lines. Kalu"
YouTube Link 2025-11-10T08:01Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"Sonia Boyce Gathering a History of Black Women TateShots Highlighting questions around race and cultural difference Sonia Boyce conveys political messages focusing on black representation and perceptions of the black body through her art. The British Afro-Caribbean artist gained prominence as part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s. Using drawing print photography performance and installation Boyce aims to shift notions of race that have pervaded since the abolition of slavery. We visited the London based artist in her studio to discover how she is reconstructing and gathering a history"
YouTube Link 2018-07-27T14:54Z 387K followers, 30.6K engagements
"Why Bridget Riley loves Constable 🎨 Tate ❤ Their paintings may not look similar at first glance but John Constable is one of Bridget Riley's all-time favourite artists. 🍿Hear more from Riley and three other contemporary artists on their love of Constable and JMW Turner in our new film: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=lRgRKqeMc2k 👀 See works by these nineteenth-century art heroes for yourself in Tate Britain's forthcoming show Turner and Constable - opening [--] November 2025: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-and-constable"
YouTube Link 2025-09-10T06:00Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
"5 Facts: Wongs Life of Imitation Tate #art #contemporaryart #conceptualart #film Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk"
YouTube Link 2025-03-12T08:00Z 387K followers, [----] engagements
"The Universe of Alexander Calder with Dara Briain Comedian and Theoretical Physics graduate Dara Briain talks about his love of the cosmos and its connection with Alexander Calders mobiles. Calders work created a sensation in the [----] when he took sculpture liberated it and set it in motion. Calders work has fascinated many most famously Albert Einstein who reportedly stood mesmerised in front of A Universe [----] for its entire fortyminute cycle. Briain explores how Calders ground-breaking work is still important today. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture - http://goo.gl/e1zRWT Tate Modern:"
YouTube Link 2016-02-17T14:02Z 389K followers, 10.9K engagements
"Art in Focus Cy Twombly's Large Swirling Fireworks Tate Cy Twomblywas a North American artist who spent much of his career in Italy. He was fascinated by the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. In his paintings he often referred to historical or mythological figures or included fragments of classical poetry. The three paintings in this series are named after Bacchus the Roman God of wine and intoxication known to the Greeks as Dionysus. They were made with a brush attached to the end of a pole enabling Twombly to capture the energy of an unbroken movement across a large canvas. The brush was"
YouTube Link 2021-11-12T18:00Z 388K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Do Ho Suh Staircase-III TateShots A gauzy red staircase floats high up in a gallery at Tate Modern in this installation by artist Do Ho Suh. Watching as the team pinned the fabric in place he told us about his inspiration. 'Staircase-III' is one of a number of works Suh has made based on his personal memories of architectural spaces both of his parents' traditional Korean house in Seoul and his own Western-style apartment in New York. 'The space I'm interested in is not only a physical one but an intangible metaphorical and psychological one' he has said"
YouTube Link 2011-03-29T09:32Z 389K followers, 54.3K engagements
"Portrait of the artist on fire 🔥 Meet Liliane Lijn Tate #art #contemporaryart Liliane Lijn is the American artist who pioneered the use of technology to make moving art. In the early 1960s Liliane Lijns kinetic sculptures placed her at the forefront of artists exploring new ways of using technology to "see the world in terms of light and energy." Over a six-decade career her work has continued to blaze a trail while defying categorisation. See her work in our new exhibition at Tate St Ives Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/liliane-lijn-arise-alive"
YouTube Link 2025-06-05T07:01Z 390K followers, [----] engagements
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