by Jon Lackman | 16 May 2006 | Museums
The Tate Modern is replacing its earlier thematic hang with a new one. The London Times’ Tim Teeman finds that it successfully balances “the popular and the esoteric.” “More than 40 per cent of the works have never have been seen before, while 20 per cent are newly acquired … Gone are the old themes — ‘The Landscape’, ‘Still Life’, ‘History’ and ‘Nude’ — to be replaced by ‘Poetry and Dream’ (Surrealism and ‘Surrealist tendencies’ — which sounds slightly pathological); ‘Material Gestures’ (Abstract Expressionism and European Informal Art); ‘States of Flux’ (Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism); and ‘Idea and Object’ (before and after Minimalism).”
