THE TATE IS A FRAUD?

Jed Perl is down on the new Tate. “People tell me that they love Tate Modern. When I ask for specifics, they don’t seem to be able to say why. The public has such an insatiable hunger for the best things in life – which, needless to say, include museum visits – that they would rather suspend judgment than go away disappointed. There are no more than four dozen paintings or sculptures of consequence dribbled through Tate Modern’s nearly endless galleries, yet somehow this does not matter. The museum has become a funhouse enclosed in a gigantic site-specific sculpture.” – The New Republic