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The insider's insider.(Books)(Book Review)
Joseph Duveen was born over his parents' shop in the back streets of Hull in October 1869. He ended his days in London in 1939 as a member of the House of Lords, an ever-dexterous pillar of the art trade and a key figure in the evolution of the Tate Gallery. Meryle Secrest, the author of Duveen: A Life in Art, has for many years been directly or indirectly on the track of her subject. (1) Duveen was born and bred to the art business. From his father, Joel Joseph Duveen, he inherited the eye, the memory, the passion for specialized knowledge, and the ability to dissemble. Never, for a moment, was he fooled. He was expected to make a mark by his early twenties, and he did.
...- Dream Tate. (Tate Gallery of Modern Art)(interview with Tate Gallery Dir....
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Flood, Richard October 1, 1995 700+ words
IT WILL BE CALLED THE TATE GALLERY of Modern Art, and it is scheduled...force behind the creation of the Tate Gallery of Modern Art is Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, current home to what the museum...
- Stately Treasures at the Tate.(Tate Gallery exhibition)
- Magazine article from: History Today Cavendish, Richard November 1, 1998 700+ words
...of a century old this year. The Tate Gallery is marking the occasion with a...appeal of still being lived in. The Tate Gallery's collaborative exhibition...Art of the Country House at the Tate Gallery, Millbank, London SWIP 4RG...
- The Best four? Turner prize. (Tate Gallery, London, England)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 21, 1992 700+ words
...whose works are on show at the Tate Gallery in London until November 29th...Because I Can't Have You", at the Tate Gallery, is 37 fish laid out in perspex...black and terracotta pigments. A Tate Gallery wall has had the treatment. The...
- Turn your home into an art museum with The Tate Gallery. (Attica Cybernetics...
- Magazine article from: Computer Shopper Brenesal, Barry April 1, 1995 700+ words
The Tate Gallery: Exploring Modern Art Attica Cybernetics...borders." Had he lived to see The Tate Gallery: Exploring Modern Art, however, he...breaking medium he envisioned. Britain's Tate Gallery is a leading repository of 20th century...
- TATE BRITAIN.(remodelación de museo; reinauguración de la Tate Gallery;...
- Magazine article from: Van Rodríguez, P August 1, 2000 700+ words
LA YA DESAPARECIDA "TATE GALLERY" DESEMPOLVO POR FIN, TODAS LAS JOYAS...resueltos gracias a la inauguracin de "Tate Modern". Un marco idneo para el arte...no ha supuesto un obstculo para que "Tate Modern" se convirtiera en un punto...
- A Premium on Pleasure.(paintings, Patrick Heron, Tate Gallery, London, England)
- Magazine article from: Art in America COHEN, DAVID June 1, 1999 700+ words
...death, a retrospective at the Tate Gallery examined six decades of Heron...s recent retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London did little to contradict...Gooding, was published by the Tate Gallery to coincide with the retrospective...
- The Founder of the Tate Gallery Dies.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: History Today Cavendish, Richard December 1, 1999 700+ words
...with others acquired under the Chantrey Bequest. At Tate's suggestion, the new institution was officially...Art, but to his dismay everyone always called it the Tate Gallery. Tate had retired at the age of seventy-seven in 1896...
- British 20th-century art.(division of Tate Gallery's collections between Tate...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 17, 2000 700+ words
Wrong key at the Tate FIFTY years ago the Tate Gallery did a daring thing when it launched a public appeal for funds...it did, and for many years Rodin's piece dominated the Tate's collection of 20th-century art. Now it has been moved...
Source: HighBeam Research, The insider's insider.(Books)(Book Review)