Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Nicholas Serota

Explore popular quotes and sayings by Nicholas Serota.
Last updated on November 24, 2024.
Nicholas Serota

Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, is an English art historian and curator, who served as the Director of the Tate from 1988 to 2017. He is currently Chair of Arts Council England, a role which he has held since February 2017.

Born: April 27, 1946
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — © Nicholas Serota
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.
Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.
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