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TATE SHOW.(United Kingdom's Tate Gallery of Modern Art)

Artforum International,  April, 2000  by BIRNBAUM, DANIEL

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WHEN THE TATE GALLERY OF Modern Art opens the doors of the transformed Bankside Power Station to the public on May 12, the international museum landscape will never be the same. Comparisons between the central London institution's debut and the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1929 or the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1977 don't seem farfetched.

The museum's press material has played up the fact that Tate Modern will represent not only a major new museum for modern and contemporary art but also the public face of twenty-first-century London. Tate director ...

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