The Tate Modern has lost its sense of purpose
Say what you will about contemporary art, but it is undeniably true that the Tate Modern succeeded where others failed. While Manchester's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and Centre Georges Pompido struggled, the Tate Modern thrived. Riding the wave of Blairism, Britpop and pre-crash confidence, the thematically organised gallery, housed inside a derelict site on the banks of the Thames, attracted five million visitors in the millennium year – doubling the numbers of the Museums of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco combined.
Today, that story could not be more different.
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