Another Failing in Serota’s Head?
Everybody Has To Sometimes Break The Rules - Part 2
“We have a simple policy, which is not to show private collections” - Sir Nicholas Serota - 2000
“A new display of works from The UBS Art Collection opens at Tate Modern” - Tate Press Release - 2006
What am I missing here? Could it be this?
“When UBS comes to the point of managing this asset - that is, selling it - it will record in the provenance the line ‘On long-term loan to Tate Modern’, a line that amounts to a guarantee of importance, worth at least another five per cent in price.” - Brian Sewell.
Here we go again, another scandal brewing at Tate Modern. 10 out of 10 for Chris Hastings and Beth Jones in the Telegraph this morning for their piece on the Tate’s giving over three rooms to the private collection of Swiss bank UBS during the major rehang of its collection - UBS being the new sponsors at the Tate.
It would appear that commercial interests and personal agendas overide ethics at our beautiful Tate. After last years controversy over the Chris Offili “Upper Room” purchase, you’d have thought that that would have learned something - or are they so arrogant as to believe they can do no wrong?
Me? I’d have given one room to Hirst, one room to Emin and the third to the Stuckists.
Read it here