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Tate Pushes Richard Hamilton Into the Glare

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Euronews on Tate Richard Hamilton Show

 

Euronews covers the Tate’s new Richard Hamilton retrospective. They asked William Feaver to explain the godfather of Pop art’s work”:

“It’s like coming back into a kind of encyclopedic reunion of work that’s almost entirely Richard’s idea of how things are represented in the 20th, early 21st centuries and how in art most things are a kind of digestive process. He takes other people’s art, he turns it to his own account, he makes very ingenious, clever, witty, sarcastic, fan-club images out of things which have caught his eye,” Feaver said.

Far from simply referencing popular culture in his work, Hamilton addressed wider contemporary and political issues, with the aim of showing how media transformed information.

Tate pays homage to pop-art icon Richard Hamilton (Euronews)

Anointing Iwona

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The Evening Standard has a long narration of Whitechapel head Iwona Blazwick’s career but the whole point is summed up in the story’s lede:

Who Will Succeed Nicholas Serota at the Tate? One name always comes out on top: Iwona Blazwick. If you haven’t heard of her then a quick résumé of her remarkable rise will leave you in no doubt of her credentials for the job. As a young curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) she was the first person to stage a solo show of Damien Hirst’s work in a public gallery; later, as head of exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, she was widely credited with initiating the annual Unilever commissions in the Turbine Hall. Most recently she has made her permanent mark on the London cultural landscape as director of the Whitechapel Gallery where, since she took over in 2001, she has overseen a £13.5 million expansion of the building to rejuvenate one of the city’s best-loved and most vibrant centres for contemporary art.

Iwona Blazwick: the high priestess of Whitechapel (ThisIsLondon/Evening Standard)

Tate Adds £14m in Works

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The Independent reports on the latest accounting of the Tate’s acquisitions:

Art worth almost £14 million was added to the collection of the Tate galleries in the last year. The 293 works include 33 paintings, 22 sculptures and 41 installations from all over the world. The organisation now has acquisitions committees in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia and work from as far afield as Lebanon, South Korea, Cuba and Algeria has been brought into the collection.

Tate collection gains £14m of works (Independent)

The Tate's Finances

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The Financial Times takes a look at the Tate’s finances particularly the losses suffered during the great hedge fund bank run of 2009:

Trustees of the Tate galleries have lost more than £1m after selling their investments in hedge funds. Tate’s annual accounts for 2008-09 show that its hedge fund holdings, worth £6.3m in 2008, were sold for £5.2m during the last financial year. Continue Reading

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