The Anonymous Widower

Art Under Attack

I went to this exhibition at the Tate on Thursday night.

It was the private view for members and the best bit about the exhibition was that you could see all the exhibits well, as there wasn’t many people there.

Or perhaps a lot of members had read the review of the exhibition in the Telegraph. It opens with this paragraph.

When some bright spark at Tate Britain came up with the idea of doing a show about the history of Iconoclasm in this country why wasn’t the plan strangled at birth?

And finishes with this.

This show may have been tripe, but as a nation, we can’t afford not to support the arts.

I didn’t think a lot to it either, but then I’m no expert and I went alone. However, I did leave with the impression, that the lady folded in Allen Jones‘s work called Chair, had an unlikely resemblance to the late Princess Diana. But then she was only eight, at the time the work of art was created.

November 2, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | Art, Tate