Following in the footsteps of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, sculptor Anish Kapoor has been made a trustee of the Tate Gallery.

Born in Mumbai in 1954, Kapoor is the UK’s leading sculptor and has exhibited worldwide - in response to the appointment by Tony Blair, he is quoted as saying, “I am delighted to have been asked to be a trustee of Tate. I look forward to working with the other trustees in the hope that I can further the cause of art.”

Kapoor won the Turner prize in 1991.

Read the Indian Telegraph story here

See examples of Kapoor’s work here

Added 30/12/05 - Two more articles give more depth to this story - The Times is here and The Independent here

Thanks to Charles Thomson at the Stuckism site for these links

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