Michael Peppiatt, a renowned Bacon scholar, friend of the artist and author of the definitive account of his life and work, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, is discussing what he believes to be a paradox at the heart of Bacons work - as an outspoken a

Love it or hate it, the Turner Prize gets everyone talking. At this event Fiona Bradley, Director of Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery, introduces the work of the 2008 nominees. As a former Turner Prize judge, Bradley gives us a personal insight into the wo

How do cross-cultural perspectives modify the standard picture of twentieth-century art? Writer and critic Kobena Mercer discusses this, and presents ‘difference’ as a question of mutual entanglements among multiple modernisms that expands our understandi

How do cross-cultural perspectives modify the standard picture of twentieth-century art? Writer and critic Kobena Mercer discusses this, and presents ‘difference’ as a question of mutual entanglements among multiple modernisms that expands our understandi

How do cross-cultural perspectives modify the standard picture of twentieth-century art? Writer and critic Kobena Mercer discusses this, and presents ‘difference’ as a question of mutual entanglements among multiple modernisms that expands our understandi

How do cross-cultural perspectives modify the standard picture of twentieth-century art? Writer and critic Kobena Mercer discusses this, and presents ‘difference’ as a question of mutual entanglements among multiple modernisms that expands our understandi

Inspired by the recently opened Cecil Collins display in Room 8, Nivek Amichund, both a visitor services assistant and a member of Tate Forum, Tate's youth advisory panel, gives his view on the works from his unique insider's position.

After record-breaking sales of Damien Hirst and Francis Bacon hear a timely discussion on the credit crunch and the art market from the Art Newspaper's Louisa Buck.

Art Historian Leon Wainwright is talking around the idea of the 'authentic outsider' and how Kitaj and Hockney - in their different ways - communicated Britishness and notions of otherness in the age of Pop.

Gillian Cutbill, a Tate guide who presents audio descriptions for blind and partially sighted visitors, is describing Freud's Standing by the Rags for the Late at Tate audience and discussing the principals of audio description.