The Art Newspaper looks at the upcoming challenges for Tate director Nicholas Serota’s successor, and the ongoing projects that the museum’s new head will have to guide to completion.  The Museum trustees are “are absolutely committed to the idea of eventually appointing someone with a curatorial background who will drive the public service ethos of the institution rather than just run it,” Serota says. (more…)

The Art Newspaper speaks to Nicholas Serota about the opening of the new Tate Modern extension, and his vision in developing the museum since 1988, particularly his awarness of a need to expand even before the museum itself was complete.  “The Tate was struggling to discharge its responsibilities to British art and to international Modern art in a building that was much too small,” he says, “but we did an analysis pretty early on and we realized that there wasn’t going to be enough space to do justice to the international Modern collection and the collection of British art.” (more…)

The Tate Modern has set June of 2016 as the opening date for its massive expansion project, and will embark on a massive rehang of the museum collection.  “There will be old friends and new friends – Pablo Picasso, Joseph Beuys and Mark Rothko will be joined by artists introduced to the public by Tate Modern in recent years,” says Nicholas Serota, “including Saloua Raouda Choucair, Meschac Gaba, Daidō Moriyama and Cildo Meireles.”  (more…)

Toby Ziegler‘s The Cripples, image via Art Observed

Back in 2003 in Frieze’s first year, no major international art fair had ever been hosted in London before. Frieze Art Fair, organized by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, has helped take London from being a city without a focused art scene to its current state at the center of the European art market. Now in its tenth year, Frieze Art Fair in London’s Regent’s Park has seen around 60,000 visitors, with 264 dealers from 35 countries hoping to sell work (valuing an estimated  £230m) created by more than 2,400 artists within 175 of the world’s leading galleries.

An Aaron Young motorcycle burn out work at Massimo de Carlo in Milan, photo via Art Observed

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The Tate Modern‘s Tanks, designed to hold commissions, acquisitions, and live performances, opened yesterday. “We are the first in the world with the ambition, the scale, and with the consistency to meet that increasing demand. The Tanks are a new instrument for the orchestra that is the Tate,” claims Sir Nicholas Serota, head of the Tate museums in the U.K.

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The Financial Times sits down with Tate Modern director, Nicholas Serota, to discuss his perspective and vision for the most popular modern art museum in the world. “Only recently have I begun to understand what it felt like to be Picasso and Braque in 1907- absolutely determined to bury the previous century.”

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‬Nine artworks donated to the Tate, including pieces by David Hockney, Lucian Freud, and Jacob Epstein, “[this gift] greatly enriched the national collection of art”, says director Sir Nicholas Serota

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