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From: Category: ArtBooks Date: 10 March 2008 Time: 10:21 AM Review: TATE ETC. magazine has had a redesign but still shows its entire back content online. I use it for dissertation notes as you can search for a particular artist or period and it will look through the whole archive. The old site was reasonably clunky, attempting to use the design features of the print version (bespoke headline fonts and layouts designed by Cornel Windlin). The new pages have been stripped of background and are now a clean sparkling white, which gives a sharper focus to the images. The images themselves are different to the ones used in the print version, so you get to see some extras, such as Francis Picabia on a bike, apparently one of the very few times he didn't drive anywhere, due to the petrol shortage in 1940. I would like to see Poem of the Month return as this has been left off the new functionality, but the site is really easy and smooth to use, and the design is simple yet fresh. www.tate.org.uk/tateetc