{"id":362981,"date":"2025-12-21T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362981\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:14:07","slug":"tates-greats-are-certainly-not-kept-hidden-from-view-tate-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362981\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate\u2019s greats are certainly not kept hidden from view | Tate Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the joys of art is that it never fails to spark debate. In that spirit, I always enjoy Jonathan Jones\u2019s reviews, but I must disagree with his particular criticism that Tate has hidden its treasures (Don\u2019t blame Maria Balshaw for Tate\u2019s failings. Its lack of ambition goes much deeper, 12 December<\/a>). Rothko\u2019s Seagram murals were lent to a landmark exhibition in Paris last year, but they returned to Tate\u2019s walls as soon as they arrived home. The UK\u2019s greatest collection of Picassos is also proudly on display in its entirety at Tate Modern in a show that has already welcomed more than 100,000 visitors.<\/p>\n

The much-loved greats \u2013 from Dal\u00ed to Duchamp, and Hepworth to Hockney \u2013 are not \u201cout of view\u201d. They are all there to be enjoyed, side by side with new discoveries, underappreciated gems and emerging talent.
Roland Rudd
Chair, Tate<\/p>\n

Jonathan Jones has described Tate Modern\u2019s current installation in the Turbine Hall<\/a> by M\u00e1ret \u00c1nne Sara as \u201cfeeble\u201d. My first visit to this installation was swift; first viewed from the balcony, it looked lost within the vastness of the Turbine Hall and I didn\u2019t bother to engage with it.<\/p>\n

On a subsequent visit, my experience was quite different \u2013 entering via the cavernous area of the ramp, the perspective had changed. The installation was, of course, still lost, being surrounded by an immense empty space \u2013 but in my opinion that is the point.<\/p>\n

Sitting on reindeer skins, listening to subtle recordings of wind, reindeer calls and the beautiful voice of the narrator the Turbine Hall was transformed to an atmospheric, cold and remote wilderness.<\/p>\n

It was a brave decision of Tate Modern<\/a> to commission this installation. Perhaps its decisions are generally braver than we might at first think.
Liz Goddard
Brighton, East Sussex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the joys of art is that it never fails to spark debate. In that spirit, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-362981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}