NO TO SIR NICHOLAS SEROTA

SIGN THE PETITION TO BLOCK THE RE-APPOINTMENT OF SIR NICHOLAS SEROTA & HIS REGIME TO THE TATE GALLERY!

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• TATE
• MODERN
• SIR
• NICHOLAS
• SEROTA
• GALLERY
• BRITISH
• ART
• POLITICAL
• PRIME
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• GORDON
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[jacobperkinsmusic]

this research which stemmed from a past much easier to grasp is the deconstruction that leads to knowledge and further understanding of our being. that anyone claiming to 'love' art can't see the beauty in a twombly painting is baffling; either you need to pick up a few books on color theory, poetry or post-structuralism, or you're simply not interested in what art has become.

do you really want to be the heretic refuting global warming, or the narrow-sight preaching creationism?

[jaarastafari]

We as a species do need to push every boundary in making art, but we must be aware of who selects this work for display and gold ribbons and why they do this. MONEY, POWER etc. Same old.

[jowonder]

Sorry honey more people have visited the Tate in that last 10 years than ever in history. And just as poets are encouraged to read other poetry there is always a historic element to art and to study the history of it is important. You sound bitter that you have not been born an innovator.

[jaarastafari]

Unfortunately it seems that through discussing/ arguing these mute points that arise when art is comprehensible only to the artist and the art dealer, we miss the point that we are being presented these works as being some sort of movement of now, without seeing the whole picture. We are being deceived by the Tate and the art dealers into paying taxes toward reselling this 'art' at inflated prices. It is precisely beacuase it is incomprehensible to the public that they can achieve this.

[Stuckstuckstuck]

The petition has long finished. The points in the video remain valid. A public institution, publicly funded, imposes a narrow view on the public and does not - as it is legally obliged to - represent the spectrum of contemporary art. This narrow viewpoint perpetuates the stance taken at the Tate in past and repeats the same mistake as the past. The directors then thought they knew best and their personal choice would be validated by the future. How wrong they were.

[jaarastafari]

here here! someone who got the point of this short film! cheers.

[jaarastafari]

The film concerns itself with the Establishment dictating what ART is to the general public and in particular the office of Serota and cronies. If you understand the corrupt manner in which this operates at the top, then you will probably spend less time criticising the art itself or indeed works made in protest.

[jacobperkinsmusic]

if art was meant to cater to the ignorance and shortcomings of an audience unwilling to share in the study, history and practice of art itself, it would be no more than a device as useless as sport, or entertainment. that is not what art is, or what it ever was, past or present.

no, the general public is never going to understand the inner workings of subatomic particles or the human genome, but it happens that