The rediscovery of the Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) as an artist in the cinema allows us to see …

Advocacy – what is it? – and, indeed, stakeholders: who are they? The answers to these questions will be different …

This paper presents an extended close reading of Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python), 1954, …

In the United States postmodern scepticism often has relegated Cy Twombly’s engagement with classical and humanist themes to nostalgia, irrelevance …

This paper reflects on the development of Tate Forum, Tate Britain’s peer-led youth group (established 2002), drawing on interviews with …

For his 1950s and 1960s Seagram and Harvard murals, American artist Mark Rothko employed lithol red – a highly fugitive …

Cy Twombly’s remark that ‘lines have a great effect on painting’ resonates not only with his graphic practice but with …

This paper discusses a hitherto unpublished drawing by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) that relates to his masterwork The Bride Stripped Bare …

Archives are more prominent than ever, not only in art practice and theoretical discourse but also in popular culture. An …

This paper discusses the relation between trauma and representation in the work of Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar (born 1956), focusing …

When John Constable’s sketch of The Glebe Farm was formally presented to Tate Britain in 2006, after the death of …

This paper explores the aims and outcomes of an artist’s residency in the Archives of the London School of Economics. …

This paper discusses the role of the archive in relation to the artistic process, through the work of Lucy Gunning, …

The idea that artists might reinvigorate and activate collections in new ways no longer seems a radical concept, but this …

Hans Hartung (1904–1989) suffered a major stroke in 1986 and was wheelchair-bound for his remaining years. Yet in this period …

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), who trained originally as an architect, is best known for his spectacular ‘building cuts’. These have often …

This paper describes a four-year project (2002 to 2006) funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research entitled Historically Accurate …

This article explores the significance of the theatrical and literary references found in the triptych Past and Present 1858 by …

This paper examines affinities between the Bauhaus-indebted instructional methods and practices of Josef Albers and the sculpture of Eva Hesse, …