On the sackings at Tate Britain

January 18 2012

One of Britain's top art historians writes:

I see you did a short piece in the blog on the Tate curators, but I think it deserves more - they are the single repository for historic British art, and it sounds as if the cuts are a way of abnegating that responsibility...? Many friends whom I saw yesterday at the Hockney opening were in a state of shock about the Tate situation.