Feigning a Relish
Nicholas Penny: One Tate or Two, 15 October 1998
The Tate: A History
by Frances Spalding.
Tate Gallery, 308 pp., £25, April 1998,1 85437 231 9 Show More
by Frances Spalding.
Tate Gallery, 308 pp., £25, April 1998,
“... This useful, well-balanced and at times enthralling history of the Tate Gallery was commissioned for its centenary. It more or less coincides with the obsequies for the Gallery as we have known it and with the baptism – by marketing experts, one supposes – of TGBA and TGMA, twin offspring of the deceased, dedicated to British art and modern art respectively, and already known as Millbank and Bankside ... ”