shakahislop
Well-known member
a trip to tate modern always feels like walking round ikea. they've somehow sucked all the aura out of the art. it's a neat trick.
i've seen some class stuff in the tate modern over the years and massively appreciate that it's free coz when i was like 18 we could just go there if we were in london, no way we would have gone if it was the standard 20 quid or whatever.
i feel the same way about the tate modern and MoMA now though, it's hard to get much out of them. i think its partly the art itself, i mean i don't get a tonne out of modern (as opposed to contemporary) stuff these days, but its also the fact that these modern art museums are now also the sites of mass popular tourism. that kind of high volume tourist attraction thing is what these museums seem to have adapted to - the assemblage of the museum as an institution and the modern tourist trail.