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In January 1989, the Tate Chairmanship passed to Dennis Stevenson, who had become a Trustee three weeks after Serota assumed office, although initially rejected by Margaret Thatcher who disliked Stevenson's liberal views. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
David Lee, editor of The Jackdaw magazine, showed that the Tate had acquired work by six serving artist trustees. "Eminence without merit" (The Sunday Telegraph). Serota was director of the Whitechapel Gallery,[2] London, and The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, before becoming director of the Tate, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art in 1988.
Retrieved 2 July 2010.
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| Preceded by Alan Bowness | Director of the Tate Gallery 1988–present | Incumbent |
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| Name | Serota, Nicholas |
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| Date of birth | 27 April 1946 |
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- Living people
- Art curators
- British curators
- Directors of the Tate Gallery
- Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Honorary Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
- Knights Bachelor
- English Jews
- Old Haberdashers
Nicholas Serota - Biography
Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota (born 27 April 1946) is a British art curator.
It was mentioned in the media for the first time by Nigel Reynolds in The Daily Telegraph and a small black and white image reproduced. In 1987, Serota raised £1.4m in an auction of work, which he had asked artists to donate, thus not only paying off the debt, but creating an endowment fund to allow future exhibitions of more unconventional work, unlikely to attract a commercial sponsor.
A strip of land had been acquired, which allowed a design by architects Colquhoun and Miller for a first-floor gallery, restaurant, lecture theatre and other rooms.[5] Although receiving wide approbation, the scheme was in deficit by £250,000.
In December 2005, Serota admitted that he had filled in with false information an application form to the Art Fund (NACF) for a £75,000 grant towards buying the work, stating that the Tate had made no commitment to purchase the work (a requirement of the grant), whereas they had in fact already paid a first instalment of £250,000 several months previously.
As well as housing acclaimed new works by Louise Bourgeois and Anish Kapoor, the Gallery has also provided the base for successful exhibitions of Donald Judd, Picasso, Matisse and Edward Hopper. December 30, 1998. He was the driving force behind the creation of Tate Modern, which opened in 2000.
Early life
Nicholas Serota, the son of Stanley and Beatrice Serota, grew up in Hampstead, North London.
Serota's submission, on two sides of A4 paper, was titled "Grasping the Nettle". Retrieved 8 July 2008.
He completed a Masters degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, under the supervision of Michael Kitson and Anita Brookner; his thesis was on the work of J. M. W. Turner. "The Dimbleby lecture 2000: Who's Afraid of Modern Art", BBC, 6 March 2001. The paintings were recovered in 2000 and 2002, resulting in a profit of several million pounds for Tate.
He was knighted in the 1999 New Year Honours.[3][8][9]
He has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation.
In 2001, Stuart Pearson Wright, winner of that year's BP Portrait Award, said that Serota should be sacked, because of his advocacy of conceptual art and neglect of figurative painting.[10]
In November 2004, in an interview in The Art Newspaper, Charles Saatchi said that the previous year he had phoned Serota and offered to donate his entire £200m collection to the Tate, including key works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and other Young British Artists, which the Tate was in need of but lacked funds to buy.[11] Saatchi said that he had been told by Serota in 2000 that planned extensions to Tate Modern would add 50% extra display capacity, but that this had been allocated by the time of his offer, necessitating its rejection.[11] Serota's spokeswoman said that Saatchi's suggestion was to "move displays of his collection from County Hall to the derelict 'oil tank' spaces at Tate Modern," (which could not be renovated without major expenditure) and that "At no point was there any suggestion that the collection was being offered as a gift to the Tate", nor was there any possibility that Serota had misunderstood the conversation.[11] Serota informed the Tate Chairman of the phone call, but some other trustees were unaware of it.[11]
Since its formation in 1999, the Stuckist art group has campaigned against Serota,[12] who is the subject of group's co-founder Charles Thomson's satirical painting Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision (2000), one of the best known Stuckist works.[13] He was dubbed the "least likely visitor" to The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery in 2004,[14] which included a wall of work satirising him and the Tate, including Thomson's painting.[15] In fact, he did visit and met the artists, describing the work as "lively".[16]
In 2005, the Stuckists offered 160 paintings from the Walker show as a donation to the Tate.
"Tate trendies blow a raspberry" (Eastern Daily Press), and my favourite, "For 1,000 years art has been one of our great civilising forces.