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Session 3: Tate Modern - A Case Study
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.
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Suggested 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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