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  • A person wearing blue gloves in an art gallery tapping on a picture frame of a painting

    Conserving Frames

    Discover how picture frames at Tate are looked after

  • Animation still of many different women, some are painting

    5 Women Artists' Stories

    Step inside the artist's studio with Tate Kids and students from St Stephen’s Primary School

  • A blurred 1750 painting with a magnifying glass showing an in focus section

    The Case of the Missing Painting

    Watch Tate's teams make an exciting discovery during the restoration of an Arthur Devis painting

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    How to Create an Art-Inspired Garden

    Learn top gardening tips from the Head Gardener at Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden

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  • An illustration of Yoko Ono surrounded by a typewriter a microphone a computer and paintbrushes

    Who is Yoko Ono?

    Meet this artist, musician and activist

  • Julianknxx – 'I listen with openness and find poetry'

    Meet the artist who explores new ways of looking to the past through performing memories, gathering stories and re-creating family fictions

  • Sammy Baloji looking through a photo negative

    Sammy Baloji – "These images became like testimonies"

    Meet the artist documenting hidden histories of Congo through photographic archives

  • Who is Petrit Halilaj?

    Meet the artist who creates colourful worlds full of imagination

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  • Recollect

    Winifred Nicholson
    1973
    On display at Tate St Ives Part of Modern Art and St Ives
  • Dageraad From the Air

    Donald Locke
    1978–9
    On display at Tate Britain Part of Modern and Contemporary British Art
  • Simmering

    Sam Gilliam
    1970
  • Alter-Ego

    Isaac Witkin
    1963
  • Three Young Women

    Natalia Goncharova
    1920
  • ID Crisis

    Zanele Muholi
    2003
    On display at Tate Modern Part of Zanele Muholi
  • Red and Yellow Image : 1958

    Patrick Heron
    1958
    View by appointment
  • Cat

    Gwen John
    c.1904–8
  • Fighting Fire with Fire

    Sarah Lucas
    1996
  • The Wedding

    R.B. Kitaj
    1989–93
    On display at Tate Britain Part of Modern and Contemporary British Art
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    Design a future city

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    Draw a Fairy Tale

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  • How to Paint a Flower like a Pre-Raphaelite

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  • Where Does Inspiration Come From?

    Fly under the radar, explore creative spaces, and discover the importance of drawing a sheep

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    A 6-part mini-series exploring art, activism and the women’s movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s

  • Installation by artist Kara Walker showing a water fountain coming from the breasts and neck of a figure

    The Art of Remembering

    What happens when people are forgotten and histories are erased?

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  • Agony Artist: Dear Mx Mavis

    Discover how the artist Lubaina Himid gives a voice to people who have been overlooked throughout history

  • Mari Katayama

    We talk to the artist about beauty, soft sculptures, and her self-portraits that are newly on display at Tate Modern

  • Two people sat opposite each other at a table writing notes

    Tate Research Centre: Learning

    Promoting research, knowledge exchange with the aim of informing practice in the field of learning in galleries

  • Breaking News

    Explore how this movement inspired and united artists around the world

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