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The Haywain

By Tate Online | Published: 12 June 2006

British Expat's Pic of the Week for 12 June 2006: The Haywain by John Constable. Courtesy of Tate Online.
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Tate Online – Constable

By Tate Online | Published: 12 June 2006

Tim Batchelor, co-curator of the major Constable exhibition at Tate Britain this summer, tells us about the artist’s “six-foot” canvases and why if you can’t visit Tate Britain to see them yourself it’s worth a visit to www.tate.org.uk, exclusively sponsored by BT.

The Haywain (click for larger image)

From 1 June, a major exhibition at Tate Britain of John Constable’s seminal “six-foot” exhibition canvases, Constable: The Great Landscapes, offers the first opportunity to view them all together. The “six-footers” are among the best-known

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Tate Online – The Turner Prize

By Tate Online | Published: 19 December 2005

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Jemima Rellie, Head of Digital Programmes at Tate, tells us about the Turner Prize and how, if you can’t visit the exhibition at Tate Britain, you can still share your thoughts on Europe’s leading contemporary art prize on Tate’s website, which is sponsored by BT.

Tate Online: The Turner Prize

2005’s was the twenty-first Turner Prize. The annual award was established by the Patrons of New

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Red

By Tate Online | Published: 19 December 2005

Pic of the Week – 19 December 2005

Gillian Carnegie Red 2004 Oil on board 22.8 x 33 cm Cranford Collection, London

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This painting was one of the entries for the 2005 Turner Prize. You can read more about Gillian Carnegie’s entry, the other entries and the Turner Prize itself in our Arts & Music section: Tate Online – Turner Prize

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Tate Online – Turner

By Tate Online | Published: 16 November 2005

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One of the curators of the world’s largest collections of works by J.M.W. Turner, Matthew Imms, tells us about the artist’s continued popularity and why if you can’t visit Tate Britain to see them yourself it’s worth a visit to www.tate.org.uk, exclusively sponsored by BT.

The Fighting Temeraire (click for larger image)

A recent BBC Radio 4 poll to find the nation’s favourite painting chose Turner’s Fighting Temeraire. In fact it transpired the shortlist had been tweaked by the judges because

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