Apr
26
Nick Serota hedges his bets on the election
Interestingly, the commitment to Tate Modern was made not by the Labour government but by a Conservative government, in 1995, when Virginia Bottomley supported the creation of Tate Modern. So Tate Modern has, in a sense, been a crossparty invention.
- Nicholas Serota in interview, ‘Artists, critics and readers on 10 years of Tate Modern’, The Observer, 25 April 2010, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/25/serota-tate-modern-tenth-birthday>
AW: A genius of diplomacy. Whoever is elected on 6 May, you just know Nick will be badgering them for money by the 7th.
