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Tate Rejects Stuckists Gift

mrs chippy by Wolf HowardYou see, I knew it was a mistake for the Walker to give such prominence to this stuckists group. Now they think they're credible, important, worth half a million quid and maybe even good (surely not).
If they really want to donate them somewhere, I'll take them off their hands. I might be able to use the frames.
Poor Nicholas Serota must be fed up with people offering him crap then crying to the papers that their masterpiece has been rejected.

THE Tate was accused yesterday of snubbing one of Britain’s foremost collections after it rejected a gift of 160 paintings that had been given pride of place at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

Its director, Sir Nicholas Serota, said that the works did not deserve to be in a national collection, even though their five-month exhibition last autumn drew thousands of people to the Walker, one of the outstanding collections of fine art in Europe and part of National Museums Liverpool.

Full article in the Times
Walker Stuckists Exhibition


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