The Guardian profiles a piece on the Tate St. Ives’s impressive expansion project, which was done in the face of fierce protests by local residents. “It has been a very fine balancing act between the gallery and the community,†says Mark Osterfield, the executive director of Tate St Ives since 2007. “There’s a real danger in situations like this that the big institution is perceived to be taking over a place, so we didn’t want to slap an ‘iconic’ new building up on the hill.â€
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