Indianapolis-based artist Brian McCutcheon asks you to Customize It! This art prompt is asking you to look at the traits around the object and play with one of those traits, thus changing how it's used. Sarah then highlights Méret...

Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal...

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"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...

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Comedian and art enthusiast Frank Skinner explores performance art and its origins; from dada and surrealism through to Yoko Ono and Joseph Beuys. Unlock Art is Tate's new short film series, offering a witty inside track on the world of...

Need some help getting to grips with Surrealism? The Doctor will see you now. Peter Capaldi, a former art student, and the latest actor to play Doctor Who, settles down on Freud's couch to deliver his wry take on the Surrealist movement....

From Tutankhamen to the ancient Greeks, the church to the Medici's, there's a long history of shopping for art. Comedian Sally Phillips explains the bulk-buys and the beheading - then explores the international art fair circuit to find...

Actor Alan Cumming presents a quick fire guide to Pop Art. From the streets of Manhattan, Alan Cumming whips through the history of Pop Art in America and Britain, from Andy Warhol's soup cans to Peter Blake's blue jeans. Unlock Art is...

Television presenter and writer Dawn O'Porter takes us on a whistle-stop tour of nudity in art, from its origins 25,000 years ago to the present day. With an unflinching gaze, O'Porter tackles the ever-changing rules of acceptability for...

Rock band The Kills jump on a tandem to explore the art of collaboration. Rock duo Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart, know a thing or two about creative partnership. Challenging the popular myth that art is made by solitary, angst-ridden...

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Artist Henri Rousseau painted The Dream in 1910, and it's imagery of a woman lounging on a sofa in the middle of a jungle was as surreal then as it is today. What is it about this artwork that captivated audiences then and now?

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978) was one of the most influential artists of his generation, and was also the brainchild behind the infamous BONE MEAL in 1971 at the artist-run Food restaurant in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. He...

Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there's an early 20th century great poet whose name you may not know: Guillaume Apollinaire. Genevieve Emy...

"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...

By showing people that art can be used to express what we feel, rather than what we see, Abstract Expressionism changed how we define what art is.

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