Tuesday, 25 May 2010

What's on Guide Tate Museum in St. Ives

Today, the rest of the group and I went to the Tate museum in St.Ives. We met someone who told us about the Tate museum and its 3 sister museums - Liverpool, Modern and Britain, and then we got to look around the gallery at the art they had on show. The person we met was very informative and gave us a formal talk about everything to do with the Tate galleries, such as what they have on, how often they change their exhibitions and even what sort of projects or events they have running. She also presented each of us with their official What's on Guide, and this basically involves all of what she said. After the talk, we walked around the gallery and looked at the art they currently have exhibited. One of the artists, Lily van der Stokker, particularly interested me because of her unique and fresh style, that to me is something different to what I've seen before. Her art is very childish, naive and innocent and this combination just made her work very attractive to look at.
Here are some facts about the Tate that we gathered on our trip there:
Tate is the only museum in a rural context in the UK.
The whole of Cornwall is the Tate's definition of the wider community.
Most people visit the Tate in the spring and summer.
The department for culture funds the Tate.
There are 4 Tates in total - St. Ives, Liverpool, Britain and Modern.
North London is the storage site where the Tate collections are held.
1979 was when the Barbara Hepworth Museum was set up.
1993 was when the current Tate museum was built.
Patrick Heron made the stained glass window which is the only permanent exhibit at the Tate.
There are 3 exhibitions at the Tate per year.
They shut for 2 weeks between each exhibition.
The aim of Tate St. Ives is to bring international art to Cornwall.
The building is designed to reflect the town of St. Ives.
They create a What's on Guide for each exhibition.
They need 2 year to plan each exhibition.

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