“Thanks to Nicholas Serota, Britain now has the most popular museum of modern art in the world. While the Pompidou Centre in Paris is visited by 3.5 million people annually, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art gained a million visitors from its reopening in November 2004 to March 2005, Tate Modern, which yesterday celebrated its fifth anniversary, is attracting more than 4 million visitors each year. This is a great coup, particularly since, by Serota’s own admission, Tate Modern’s permanent collection is fourth-rate, particularly weak in early 20th century art.”