Speaker: Steve Edwards, Lecturer in Art History, Open University

Steve Edwards introduces the Open University programme 'Displaying Modern Art', which was made for the course AA318: Art of the Twentieth Century. This programme focuses on the previous displays at Tate Modern and features interviews with Tate curators as well as some of their critics. By showing the previous displays at Tate Modern this session will provide a basis for informed discussion of the current arrangement of the collection.

Further Reading
• Contemporary Cultures of Display, edited by Emma Barker, Yale U.P. 1999

Speaker: Warburton, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Open University

Art galleries select and display material objects, typically unique works, in specific locations. Viewers experience these, consciously absorbing curators' interpretations from descriptions and captions, often forearmed with preconceptions about what they are seeing. Particular juxtapositions affect the viewer in a range of ways many of them semi- or pre-conscious. Philosopher Nigel Warburton considers some of the issues raised by juxtaposition using examples from the recent Tate Modern re-hang.

Speaker: Frances Morris, Curator and Head of Displays, Tate Modern

This paper reviews the controversial opening display of the permanent collection at Tate Modern which embraced a thematic, as opposed to chronological structure, as well as the principle of rotating displays. It discusses the recent rehang of the collection which departs from the opening display in significant ways while it also continues to address the same challenges and builds on and develops a number of its principles. Rehangs allow curators and visitors to revisit the material objects in the collection enabling new experiences and interpretations to emerge. Ideas and practices generated by artists, by exhibitions, within art history and related disciplines as well as from the wider socio-economic and political realms provide the intellectual context for generating new models and types of display at Tate Modern.

Further Reading
• Strategies of Display: Museum Presentation in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Visual Culture, Julia Noordegraaf, Rotterdam 2004
• Capital, A project by Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, Tate Publishing 2001
• The Museum as Muse, Kynaston McShine, New York, MOMA 1999
• Tate Modern: The Handbook, edited by Frances Morris, Tate Publishing 2006

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Further Reading
• www.guerrillagirls.com