From ‘The Tenth Plague of Egypt’ exhibited 1802, JMW Turner, N00470, Tate Collection ...

Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...

Explore the philosophical, poetic and spiritual associations of white monochrome paintings Artists have made paintings that use only the colour white since the early twentieth century. Single colour ...

The sublime evades easy definition. Today the word is used for the most ordinary reasons, for a ‘sublime’ tennis shot or a ‘sublime’ evening. In the history of ideas it has a deeper meaning, pointing ...

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Sze incorporates objects designed for human scale, such as tools for installing sculpture such as a ladder and a spirit level. Other components, like the tiny wooden bridges, could imply a miniature ...

Zanele Muholi (they/them) is a South African visual activist whose work tells the stories of Black LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Agender, Asexual) lives in South ...

This article summarises the key concerns of Pseudo-Longinus’s On the Sublime, and considers their interest for one of the most influential translators of the treatise, Nicolas Boileau (1636–1711).

Miss Alice Gostick was a teacher at Castleford Secondary School, which Moore attended between the ages of eleven and eighteen. A member of the Art Teachers’ Guild, Miss Gostick advocated a progressive ...

At Tate St Ives, a ceramic sculpture by Lynda Benglis is now on display in a room exploring connections between spiritual ...

This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...