This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

The Black Subject: Modernism

The Black Subject: Model citizens - a panel

The Black Subject: Victorians - a conversation

The Black Subject: On presence and absence

A discussion with Prof. Laura Marcus (Oxford University) and writer and critic Prof. Sukhdev Sandhu (NYU), chaired by Tate Curator Sonya Dyer

The Black Subject: Film screening of Borderline - Q&A

The talk addresses some of the thoughts and observations emerging from the inter-disciplinary debates around the nature of the performative and live art in order to identify future trajectories for performance in this highly mediated digital age

BMW Tate Live: The Future of Live

Susan Meiselas

Simon Baker

Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, whose work features in Conflict, Time, Photography discusses her illustrious career in photojournalism with curator Simon Baker.

Susan Meiselas in conversation with Simon Baker

What is the value of being a citizen? What are the values that will or should guide the future citizen?  How can we rethink the idea of value away from a purely economic model of worth?

Future Citizen Forum: Values

Speakers are Thomas Struth, Penelope Umbrico, Massimo Vitali and Lauren Marsolier and Mishka Henner. The panel is chaired by William Ewing, Director of Curatorial Projects at Thames &amp; Hudson.

The landscape in contemporary photography: From the sublime to the ridiculous

In the early 1980s the German artist Sigmar Polke became a dedicated scholar of pigment manufacture. He favoured highly toxic, banned or otherwise exotic substances, but as a modern day alchemist he shrouded his knowledge in mystery.

Purple and Snails: Polke's Experiments with Colour

This podcast presents highlights from Tate's wide-ranging programme of talks, symposiums and live events at all four Tate galleries.

Tate Events

Mark Leckey

Helen Marten

Stuart Bailey

Richard Hamilton

This event at Tate Modern sees emerging British artist Helen Marten, graphic designer Stuart Bailey and Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey discuss Richard Hamilton's interests in design, typography, fashion, popular culture and display.

Urbane Images: Mark Leckey, Helen Marten and Stuart Bailey on Richard Hamilton

This conference at Tate Britain brings together key international speakers to consider the theoretical and philosophical issues which frame textual interpretation. Speakers include Tony Bennett, Donald Preziosi, Griselda Pollock, and James Elkins.

Interpretation, Theory & the Encounter - Part 3

Hal Foster

Mark Godfrey

Vicente Todoli

This discussion addresses Richard Hamilton’s entire career: his exhibition designs of the 1950s, his ‘pop’ period, his interests in design and politics, as well as his relationship to a variety of artists. Audio recording.

On Hamilton with Hal Foster, Vicente Todoli and Mark Godfrey

Jacques Herzog

Audio recording of Architecture and art: If you build it, will they come? Jacques Herzog and Hal Foster talk at Tate Modern

Architecture and art: If you build it, will they come? Jacques Herzog and Hal Foster

This audio recording aims to situate Sigmar Polke's significance within a wider art historical context before unpicking the complex layers of his diverse practice, raising questions around what makes his art of such contemporary relevance today.

Painting, Politics, Persona: What Polke Means Today?

Audio recording. This two-day symposium explores Pop beyond the mainstream.

Portavilion: Changing Social Sculpture

Wangechi Mutu

A riveting and candid conversation charting Wangechi Mutu’s career to date via her varied sources of inspiration, including her current exploration of the possibilities of printmaking, mythology and more. Audio recording.

In Conversation: Wangechi Mutu

One of the most important Arab filmmakers working today, Moumen Smihi is founding figure of the New Arab Cinema of the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). Introduction and Q&amp;A for the film screening event at Tate Modern.

Moumen Smihi: A Muslim Childhood

Gregory J. Markopoulos is a key figure in the history of independent film and was, alongside Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Andy Warhol, a pioneer of the New American Cinema of the 1960s.

Gregory J. Markopoulos: Film as Film

Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

Exploring Turner and the Masters - Part 1

Introduction to the film screening by special guests from Polke’s family who will discuss his relationship to film and Christof Kohlhöfer will also discuss his collaboration with Polke.

Sigmar Polke: Films

Paul Klee

This unique public event explores the relationship between poetry and art, in the magical setting of The EY Exhibition Paul Klee: Making Visible at Tate Modern. Audio recording.

Paul Klee: The Poetic and the Painterly

How has formalist and poststucturalist thinking shaped our understanding of art and art history in the 20th century? What relevance do such ideas have today, in an age where anything goes and artists work in a ‘post-medium’ world? Audio recording.

Art criticism in the post-medium age

Richard Tuttle

Audio recording of American Artist Lecture Series: Richard Tuttle talk at Tate Modern

American artist lecture series: Richard Tuttle

Camille Henrot

Audio recording of Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue, a part of film screening programme at Tate Modern

Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue

This event at Tate Modern invites us to reconsider the everyday activity of walking as a philosophical, spiritual and creative activity, which has played a central role in the work of thinkers, artists and writers alike.

The Art of Walking and Slowing Down

Richard Cork

Tate audio recording. The first British Art Network seminar is based around the First World War. Presentation by Richard Cork

British Art Network: First World War – Richard Cork

Ricky Burdett, Enrique Peñalosa, Sir Richard Rogers and Deyan Sudjic discuss the book 'The Endless City', which takes six major cities as its focal point and examines the key social, structural and economic factors critical to creating a thriving city

The Endless City

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