Conservator Amelia Jackson gives a fascinating insight into materials and methods, explaining how the conservation process brings the Turner paintings to life.

Late at Tate Britain: Late Night Radio

Dec 17th, 2009 2h 41m

MANTON.789 IN THE STUDIO. Tune into inquisitive airwaves, radio programming and time-based sequencing presented by Chelsea College of Art's MA students.

Late at Tate Britain: Pil and Galia Kollectiv present Critical Mass

Dec 17th, 2009 16m 53s

London based artists Pil and Galia Kollectiv curate an evening of radical worship for the apocalypse, featuring a sermon for the Church of the Atom with live music by Gelbart, a black mass by vampiric metal band Whitby Bay and fundamentalist fi

Late at Tate Britain: Pil and Galia Kollectiv present Critical Mass - Live Band

Dec 17th, 2009 20m 33s

Late at Tate Britain: Beyond Scale - Fear of Music

Dec 17th, 2009 1h

David Stubbs and Gabriel Prokofiev join a panel to discuss why the general public has trouble embracing avant garde and experimental music while conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status.

Late at Tate Britain: Beyond Scale - Peshrav

Dec 17th, 2009 34m 33s

Three of Europe's leading young cellists perform the deeply haunting Peshrav for Three Amplified Cellos by Uzbek composer Aziza Sadikova alongside solo works by Lutoslawski and others.

UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 - House of Fairy Tales

Oct 8th, 2009 6m 14s

The House of Fairy Tales brought their unique blend of contemporary art and family fun to Tate Modern’s Long Weekend festival earlier this year, and TateShots was there to capture the atmosphere. Artist Gavin Turk is one of the co-founders of t

Performance: Cyprien Gaillard

Aug 14th, 2009 5m 23s

Artist Cyprien Gaillard presented his ‘electronic opera’ Desniansky Raion at Tate Modern this July. The triptych of films features some startling images, including battling gangs and a son et lumière building demolition. In this video Gaillard

UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 - Paola Pivi

Jun 1st, 2009 2m 49s

For The Long Weekend 2009 Italian artist Paola Pivi created 1000, a work in which one thousand people descend en masse to the mezzanine bridge at Tate Modern, then scream in ear-splitting unison. The artist, preferring not to appear in this fil

UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 - Jennifer West

Jun 1st, 2009 4m 55s

The LA-based artist Jennifer West came to Tate Modern to create a new film live in the gallery. Instead of cameras, her process involves manipulating and making marks on the celluloid film itself. For this performance ink-covered film strips we

UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 - Robert Morris

Jun 1st, 2009 3m 31s

Interactive art was a new concept when the exhibition Bodyspacemotionthings first went on show at the Tate in 1971. Created by the American artist Robert Morris, it consists of a series of beams, weights, platforms, rollers, tunnels and ramps t

UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 - Michelangelo Pistoletto

Jun 1st, 2009 4m 44s

A key artist of the arte povera movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto came to London in May to recreate a seminal 1966 performance in which he rolled a ball of newspapers through the streets of Turin. At Tate Modern he pasted together newspapers to

Miriam Elia - A Comic Take: A therapy session for unhappy artworks

May 19th, 2009 3m 42s

We invited comedian Miriam Elia to present a personal take on the Rodchenko & Popova exhibition at Tate Modern. The result is this sketch. As Miriam explains: “Shapes featuring in Russian Constructivist paintings often suffer from anxiety disor

Jim Dine: Getting inside the artist's head

Mar 27th, 2009 3m 43s

A painter, sculptor, photographer, illustrator, performance artist and poet, Jim Dine is arguably one of the most prolific artists working today. He took TateShots on a tour of his latest exhibition at Pace Wildenstein, New York, a labyrinthine

Jean-Pascal Flavien and Julien Bismuth: Messing about on the River Thames

Mar 27th, 2009 4m 54s

On a rare, almost miraculously sunny day in London, TateShots and a group of art lovers boarded a boat and sailed out onto the Thames. We were there to see a work by Jean-Pascal Flavien and Julien Bismuth, the splashily named Plouf!, which was

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