Thursday, July 19, 2012

Tate Modern aims to bring performance art and video installation to a wider public in The Tanks


The first phase of the Tate Modern's underground extension has opened to the public. The vast spaces beneath the old Bankside Power Station have been converted by architects Herzog + de Meuron into two large spaces for performance and film installations, plus a number of smaller spaces.Tate director Nicholas Serota said: "It will bring the kind of work that has traditionally been seen in alternative spaces, for short durations, and often barely recorded, into the museum. It will bring it into our own sense of art history as something that is not on the margins, but something central to art. Read more...