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I’ve been taking a look at some film representations of Gauguin. I remember seeing Lust for Life (1956) when I was very little and feeling so sorry for poor old Van Gogh. Gauguin didn’t really register with me at all (perhaps I shouldn’t admit to that) -  but then his character was only on screen [...]

The rolling stacks in the archive store. Hello and welcome to the first in a series of 40 blogs to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tate Archive. I’m Adrian Glew, head of Tate Archive, the world’s largest archive of British fine art  from 1900, housing more than 750 archive collections including diaries, sketchbooks, letters and [...]

Christine Riding is co-curator of  Gauguin: Maker of Myth Christine adds another piece of the jigsaw to her wall of Gauguin images As you can see from the ‘Gauguin’ wall in my office, I have been busy with the team putting this show together. This is my first exhibition at Tate Modern, and I have [...]

Fountain 1917, replica 1964 Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002 28 July is the anniversary of the birth of Marcel Duchamp, widely seen as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Fountain from 1917 is the most famous of his readymade sculptures, and is often named [...]

Nqutu 1998 from Playing Away, Neville Gabie born 1959 Tate. © Neville Gabie Neville Gabie was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1959, and studied in the UK in the 1980s. In 1998, he began photographing football pitches and goalposts around the world – from makeshift poles or markings sprayed on walls to sophisticated stadiums [...]

Dynamic Suprematism 1915 or 1916, Kasimir Malevich 1878-1935. Tate. Kasimir Malevich was born near Kiev in 1878 and lived and worked in Moscow, Vitebsk and St Petersburg. He was a leading figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde. In the early years of the 1910s, Malevich abandoned traditional representative images in favour of what he called Suprematism. [...]

Jacob and the Angel 1940-1, Sir Jacob Epstein 1880-1959, Tate © The estate of Sir Jacob Epstein Jacob Epstein is best known for his monumental sculpture and portrait busts. In the early years of the twentieth century, he was a champion of  new sculptural practices that became central to modernist sculpture such as the idea [...]

Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern Photo: Marion Vogel, 2009 Tate announced today that Chris Dercon, Director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Modern, and will take up the appointment in spring 2011. Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “Chris Dercon has made some outstanding exhibitions in Munich [...]

Two Boats c1928, Alfred Wallis 1855-1942 © The estate of Alfred Wallis Alfred Wallis spent most of his working life as a fisherman. He claimed to have gone to sea aged nine and was involved in deep-sea fishing, sometimes sailing as far as Newfoundland in Canada. In 1890 he moved to St Ives in Cornwall, [...]

Maman, 1999, Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010 © Louise Bourgeois This week’s work is Louise Bourgeois’s Maman from 1999. Bourgeois was a sculptor, painter and printmaker, who died this weekend at the age of 98. Born in 1911 in Paris, as a youth, Bourgeois assisted her parents in their tapestry restoration business. She first began studies in mathematics [...]