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Pounds 50m grant to make Tate Modern into 'world's best'
2007
Overview
The Tate Modern gallery has been promised a 50m grant from the Government which will enable it to expand and become the world's premier institution for contemporary and modern art before the 2012 London Olympics. The grant, which is the largest single lump sum to be given to a cultural institution since the 1970s, will enable Tate Modern to create a spectacular new building housing hundreds of pieces that have until now been kept in storage. These include works by Damien Hirst, Mark Rothko, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman and Olafur Eliasson. Designed by the architects Herzog & de Meuron, who created the vision for Beijing's Olympic stadium, it will see different kinds of galleries built to showcase large-scale installations, including works such as Hirst's Pharmacy, a room-sized piece with cabinets containing prescription drugs, and Bruce Nauman's Mapping the Studio II, a sprawling new media recreation of studio space. Currently, only around 40 per cent of the gallery's overall collection is shown due to a lack of space. Anna Somers Cocks, editorial director of The Art Newspaper, said [Tate] had been central in transforming the idea of visiting art galleries into a popular activity.
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