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A Line in the Himalayas 1975, printed 2004, Richard Long born 1945, Tate © Richard Long Richard Long is well known for his interventions in the natural landscape based on epic walks. In the late 1960s, artists began to move beyond depicting the natural world to start to use it as a setting or even [...]

Away from the Flock 1994, Damien Hirst b. 1965, © Damien Hirst Damien Hirst is known as the most celebrated (and perhaps most notorious) of the ‘Young British Artists’ or YBAs. Many of the YBAs, including Hirst, studied at Goldsmiths College, London in the late 1980s, and while he was still a student there, Hirst [...]

Counter-Composition VI 1925, Theo van Doesburg 1883-1931, Tate, Purchased 1982 It’s the last week of Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World at Tate Modern and so we’ve been looking back over the show before it leaves us. Since van Doesburg had a hand in or link to so many seminal movements [...]

The Pool of London 1906, André Derain 1880-1954, Tate © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002 Work of the Week this week is André Derain’s The Pool of London from 1906. Derain is best known for his association with the “Fauves” (along with Henri Matisse). Painted with free brush strokes, this painting is characteristic of Fauvism, [...]

Forms in Movement (Pavan) 1956-9, cast 1967, Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975. Tate, Presented by the executors of the artist's estate 1980 T03136 © Bowness, Hepworth Estate In the hope that spring might actually make it to the UK soon, this week’s work is Forms in Movement (Pavan) by Barbara Hepworth, on permanent display in the [...]

Weeping Woman (Femme en pleurs), 1937, Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Tate © Succession Picasso/DACS 2002 This week’s work is  Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman, painted in 1937. Picasso is one of the most well-known artists in the world, not least because of the enormous influence he had on 20th century art. He was born in Spain, but [...]

Stepping out of the tube at Whitechapel in East London, you find yourself in a bustling market, selling everything from fruit and veg to saris and CDs of the latest Bangra beats. Above the stalls and Victorian shop-fronts the colourful glass façade of the ‘Ideas Store’ hoves into view, like an inter-stellar spaceship on a [...]

Mod Blog contributors, commentators, film-makers, scrawlers and fans, please take a bow as we have been awarded a splendid shiny pink sci-fi-esque cube for our efforts… Snatching the annual BIMA award for Best Blog in the ‘Social Media’ category, The Great Tate Mod Blog won out against some strong competition. As you can see we produced ours [...]

Fiona Sibley snoops around offices that pave the way for better working practices Office life gave us one of the best comedy TV series in recent memory. Inside Ricky Gervais’ tragicomic world of heavy-duty carpets, cluttered desks and claustrophobic meeting rooms, trapped on a miserable trading estate in Slough, were elements we probably all recognised: [...]

I recently visited Berlin and was keen to experience the city’s art galleries. I found them to be some of the most exciting gallery spaces I have ever seen. Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin (© Alexey Moskvin) One of them is Hamburger Bahnhof, which was designed by Josef Paul Kleihues, and originally built as the terminal [...]