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Artist Abraham Cruzvillegas talks about growing up in Ajusco, Mexico and how his work like this city, is ‘alive, changing and in constant transformation’. 

Watch Turner Prize 2015 nominee Nicole Wermers discuss her norminated work Infrastruktur

Watch Canadian artist Janice Kerbel talk about her work and performance piece DOUG, which has been nominated for the 2015 Turner Prize

‘Art is about aesthetics, about morals, about belief in humanity. Without that, there simply is no art.’ Watch artists Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor explain why they chose to walk across London in solidarity with refugees around the world in September 2015

From squatting in Kings Cross to realising his own bespoke studio sculptor Antony Gormley has witnessed London’s transformation from its very epicentre

Watch an interview with Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, as he takes on the Turbine Hall to create one of his signature autoconstrucción pieces

Artist Frank Auerbach has made some of the most vibrant, alive and inventive paintings of recent times. Here, photographer and Auerbach fan Mary McCartney describes her love of the artist’s work

Art, design and architecture collective Assemble discuss their surprise nomination for the 2015 Turner Prize

Watch Nicola L’s 11-person Red Coat travel around the world declaring ‘The Same Skin for Everybody’. The work presents the human body as a conceptual piece of art

‘You need a lot of space for freedom of speech. That’s what I am trying to defend.’ We explore the city of Beijing through the eyes of its most famous detained resident Ai Weiwei

Watch the story of Jean Tinguely’s burning sculpture, told by critic Dore Ashton who was present on the night that the artwork partially disappeared

Tate Conservation discuss Joseph Beuys’ Felt Suit 1970, a delicate and fragile sculptural which had completely disintegrated due to a moth-infestation

The remains of Jacob Epstein’s earliest and most controversial sculptures can be found in the heart of central London

Edward Ihnatowicz was an artist whose interest in finding ways to emulate animal movement led him to become a pioneer of robotic art. Using sound and movement sensors to react to the behaviour of the visitors, Senster is remembered today as a pioneering piece of technology-based art

‘It’s part of your family…it’s not just a painting’. Here Susan Freeman recalls the lengthy process of Restitution where eventually Portrait of a Young Woman in White was recovered and finally returned to her family after it was confiscated by the Nazis

Watch artist Christo talk about the 1995 piece Wrapped Reichstag. Together with artist Jeanne-Claude,  the German landmark was covered with 100,000 square metres of billowing silver-grey fabric, tied by over fifteen kilometres of blue ropes – for two weeks only

Watch this short film from 1976 directed by John Smith. In east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects

Watch John Smith’s The Man Phoning Mum where he revisits the original locations of The Girl Chewing Gum after three and a half decades

Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Art and Life, discusses Martin’s formative experiences, the development of her work, and the range of lively non-mainstream art communities in which she lived

Hear Jake Chapman defend a seemingly mad act of vandalism in reference to the Chapman brothers’ Insult to Injury series, a piece which involved defacing Goya’s Disasters of War

Hear from the man who accidentally destroyed a Francis Bacon

Two days, 90 dancers, 100s of you and one giant disco ball. Video highlights from If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse?

Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah talks about his commitment to the ‘philosophy of montage’, his interest in archive and documentary and the importance of history

‘As you know there is nothing more inspiring to me than the act of creation…there must be magic in this country around here.’  We delve into the Tate Archive and discover Barbara Hepworth’s letters written from her studio in St Ives

American conceptual artist Mary Kelly discusses how feminism informed her seminal work Post-Partum Document 1973-79 and the origins of her lint technique

‘The studio has become a museum….The act of collecting is a conceptual art form.’ Watch Peter Blake in his London studio as he begins work on a new collage piece and talks about his act of collecting and which artists influenced his making

Tate Modern invites you to a rare performance of Calder Piece, composer Earler Brown’s sonic animation of his friend Alexander Calder’s Chef d’orchestre.

Watch Gustav Metzger reflect on his long and influential career where he developed the concept of auto-destructive art, born out of his traumatic experience of the Holocaust. His work is on display in BP Spotlight: Gustav Metzger: towards auto-destructive art 1950–1962

Explore Victorian sculpture through the power of touch. We follow David Johnson who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at fifteen, trace his way around selected artworks in Sculpture Victorious, drawing on his own visual recollection to imagine the scene before him

Watch our visit to Woodhorn Museum for their Art Gala Day hosted by The Mindfuls, a group of young people established to explore and celebrate the ARTIST ROOMS exhibition of text based words by American artist Lawrence Weiner

Watch this evening lecture where artist Marlene Dumas talks about her work in relation to her retrospective exhibition Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden

Watch our highlights of the restaging of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s performance piece Tatlin’s Whisper #6, a performance where members of the public speak for a minute. The work was restaged in an act of solidarity and support for Bruguera and artists all over the world persecuted for freedom of expression

Head of Displays Matthew Gale takes us through Making Traces, an entire new wing of collection displays from idea to installation. The display includes Rothko’s nine Seagram murals, the ‘must-see of Tate Modern’

Watch Sir Peter Blake discuss his new artwork Everybody Razzle Dazzle, a pop inspired dazzle design currently decorating the Mersey commuter ferry Snowdrop. It is his largest scale commission to date and will give visitors to Liverpool an opportunity to step on board a floating art-work

Tracey Emin’s My Bed returns to Tate Britain after 15 years. In this interview, Emin talks about the dark emotional place the work emerged from and the media’s controversial reaction to the piece in 1999