Is Tate Modern Prostituting Itself?
Tate Modern has entered into an extensive partnership with investment bank UBS, under which the museum will showcase works from the bank’s extensive art collection. But as much as Tate Modern may need UBS’s money, doesn’t such a deal indicate a betrayal of the museum’s core mission? “Tate Modern belongs to the British people. Its space cannot be sold, its codes must not be breached simply because the government doesn’t care to support it as it should.” An article on this issue already appeared on sunday and was cited by the ArtsJournal the same day, but the content is to important to leave unnoticed here.
Read full article (The Observer, May 13, 2007)
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