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Article: No sharks, please, we're British; Contemporary art.(London is the centre of contemporary art, but Britons won't buy the stuff)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2001
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A dim view of contemporary art
London is the centre of contemporary art, but Britons won't buy the stuff
WHEN Madonna presents the 2001 Turner Prize to one of four British artists on December 9th, the show at the new Tate Britain will have attracted almost 100,000 visitors. Some 6.2m have queued at the doors of Tate Modern since it opened last year. Charles Saatchi, the godfather of the Young British Artists movement, has just unveiled his plans to open a huge new exhibition space for his collection at County Hall, westwards along the south bank of the Thames. London's thriving art scene, which started as a student-organised warehouse exhibition in 1988, ...