The Tate Modern reopens its doors. The most visited museum in London with the British Museum, it will reopen this Monday and will welcome visitors who have booked on the Internet, if possible masked, that the signposted routes will take through collections and exhibitions.
Closed for four months, the young museum which celebrated its 20th anniversary in May, is preparing to receive initially mainly British visitors, the pandemic of the new coronavirus having durably removed the tourists who made up nearly half of its six million visitors per year.
A huge fountain was erected in the large turbine hall
The museum has the ambition to present a program comprising more works by artists from ethnic diversity, exhibition director Achim Borchardt-Hume told AFP on Friday. A desire symbolized by the immense fountain erected in the large turbine hall by Kara Walker, an African-American artist.
Fons Americanus is the ironic counterpart to the Queen Victoria Memorial located opposite Buckingham Palace. The sovereign becomes Queen Vicky in this fountain which recalls some unpleasant truths about the slave past of Great Britain and the United States, connected by the water of the Atlantic Ocean through which the slave trade was carried out.
Reopening of his little sisters
Visitors will also be able to explore the large exhibition dedicated to Andy Warhol, which has so far only been open for 5 days. Tate Modern sisters, Tate Liverpool, Tate StIves (Cornwall) and Tate Britain (London), also reopen this Monday, with the latter featuring an exhibition dedicated to 19th-century English illustrator and printmaker Aubrey Beardsley, who will then travel to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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