Submitted by William Beckett (not verified) on Sun, 2008-03-02 11:35.
It is scandalous that the trustees of the Tate Gallery should only display about 100 works by Turner - a tiny percentage of his whole bequest - by the artist generally accepted as England's greatest, when they have the vast space of the Turbine Room at Bankside at their disposal and long ago accepted the responsibility of exhibiting his entire collection which he donated to the nation. Nothing at all is being displayed in the enormous Hall - apart from the crack in the floor which can only be construed as vandalism. Please someone, go ahead and sue the Tate and their ridiculous, posturing, director N. Serota. There is no excuse for this cultural barbarism as the Tate no longer has the excuse of lack of exhibition space. No other country would treat its greatest artist in this humiliating manner. And if, in the unlikely event that this country ever produces an artist to rival Turner, he or she would be mad to make such a bequest - and in fact, no-one since him has!
Turner Bequest
It is scandalous that the trustees of the Tate Gallery should only display about 100 works by Turner - a tiny percentage of his whole bequest - by the artist generally accepted as England's greatest, when they have the vast space of the Turbine Room at Bankside at their disposal and long ago accepted the responsibility of exhibiting his entire collection which he donated to the nation. Nothing at all is being displayed in the enormous Hall - apart from the crack in the floor which can only be construed as vandalism. Please someone, go ahead and sue the Tate and their ridiculous, posturing, director N. Serota. There is no excuse for this cultural barbarism as the Tate no longer has the excuse of lack of exhibition space. No other country would treat its greatest artist in this humiliating manner. And if, in the unlikely event that this country ever produces an artist to rival Turner, he or she would be mad to make such a bequest - and in fact, no-one since him has!