Meltdown at the crafts council?

Apollo;  March 1, 2006 ;     558 words ......The two events have in common the Crafts Council, a government-funded body that exists...If so, you would be very wrong. The Crafts Council is in apparent meltdown. Its director...Trustees effectively to render the Crafts Council invisible'. They are objecting to the...

So where are the masterpieces? ; Rather than keep its few great works of...

Evening Standard - London;  May 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ...TWENTY-one galleries within UBS Openings: Tate Modern Collection will be completely transformed...lasting, consequence. No habitue of Tate Modern need hasten there to see new marvels...one new marvel is on view; and worse, Tate Modern seems to have wholly abandoned, if not...

The Tate Modern - For art's sake.(opening of museum in London,...

The Economist (US);  May 13, 2000 ;     698 words ......100 years' time--the opening of the Tate Modern art gallery on the south bank of the...has the Pompidou Centre. But while the Tate Modern may be a late arrival on the scene...cultural nationalism in the way the Tate Modern is being written about in Britain. Architectural...

Tate Taster So Tate Modern has opened, but how do you find your way round...

The Independent - London;  May 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ......anything else, for the Serious Shopper Tate Modern respresents a fabulous retail opportunity...Michael Craig-Martin. Also, look out for Tate Modern ginger biscuits with `Bankside' icing...HOP Like everything else in London, Tate Modern will only stay truly hip for about six...

Tate Modern pays "30,000 for a receipt.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 10, 2006 ;     299 words ...MORE RED faces at Tate Modern. I hear its director Sir Nicholas...air. Floyer's piece purchased by Tate Modern is called Untitled: White Till Receipt...and is said to have been bought by Tate Modern for 30,000 plus - far more than...

Tate Modern pays [pounds sterling]30,000 for a receipt.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 10, 2006 ;     302 words ...MORE RED faces at Tate Modern. I hear its director Sir Nicholas...air. Floyer's piece purchased by Tate Modern is called Untitled: White Till Receipt...and is said to have been bought by Tate Modern for [pounds sterling]30,000 plus...

On show at Tate Modern, the very British art of queuing

Evening Standard - London;  June 5, 2000 ;     433 words ......queuing. Such is the pulling power of Tate Modern that hundreds are prepared to wait in...abstraction and surrealism. The success of Tate Modern has further exposed the failure of the...capture the public's imagination while Tate Modern has done so immediately and almost ...

A museum in search of a plot Art Tate Modern's Winter Displays

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ......recently wandered round the galleries at Tate Modern with a major American abstract artist...day in May 2000 when I first entered Tate Modern, and, in the words of another critic...buildings, along with Durham Cathedral - Tate Modern has plenty of opponents. There are those...

Tate Modern leads rise in gallery-going public

The Independent - London;  April 3, 2001 ;     452 words ......glamour that made the opening of the Tate Modern one of the social highlights of the...attendance of Mick Jagger and Yoko Ono at the Tate Modern's opening night made art as sexy as...1999 to 28.4 million in 2000. But the Tate Modern accounted for 4 million of the extra...

Tate Modern and the question of a finishing touch

Evening Standard - London;  May 8, 2000 ;     520 words ...COULD it be that the 134million Tate Modern, formally launched this morning with...illusion of reality." In short, it's Tate Modern's little joke, an addendum by two Swiss...Herzog and de Meuron, architects of Tate Modern. That achievement was celebrated today...

UK GOVERNMENT: Professor James More and Dr Alan Borg re re-appointed to...

M2 Presswire;  October 20, 1999 ;     490 words ......and Dr Alan Borg re-appointed to the Crafts Council (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...Borg have been re-appointed to the Crafts Council for a further three years, Arts Minister...five years. Notes for Editors 1. The Crafts Council exists to advance and encourage the...

Arts: The war between the Tates Tate Modern at Bankside, which opened in...

The Independent - London;  August 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......rumours. People were coming back from Tate Modern, saying it's absolutely packed, you...little bit of ceremony. Six weeks later, Tate Modern opened at Bankside with a campaign of...reads newspapers etc, had never heard of Tate Modern, had no idea what I was talking about...

Museum boss says Tate Modern fails to communicate with the masses

The Independent - London;  July 7, 2000 ;     388 words ...THE NEW Tate Modern has been criticised by an official...intellectual stimulation. "I went to Tate Modern as someone who knows very little about modern art but is keen to learn. I left Tate Modern in exactly the same state. "I did enjoy...

Food and drink: Nice art with a caff attached The work at Tate Modern may...

The Independent - London;  May 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Tate Modern 7th Floor Bankside, London SE1 tel: 020 7401 5020 We arranged to have lunch at the Tate Modern. It was his choice as well as mine. John...American sculptures. So did I. Besides, the Tate Modern is the place to do lunch right now. Initially...

Successful Tate Modern shows Dome how it's done by

Evening Standard - London;  May 15, 2000 ;     159 words ...THE TATE MODERN is already believed to have attracted...to break even, while those for the Tate Modern are two million. A key factor is that...visitors to the Dome pay 20 to get in. The Tate Modern, in central London, is more accessible...