Watching Karl Sabbagh and Belinda Aird’s Power into Art series about the building of Tate Modern on Channel 4, where two out of four episodes are still to be aired, and reading Sabbagh’s accompanying book,[1] which appeared in print only a few days ago, I cannot but feel deep respect, admiration, and even affection for Nick Serota, the director of the Tate, the client personified, and the live force behind the Bankside project, which is about to open to the public after six years in the making. And I cannot but be ever-so-slightly annoyed by my own bleeding heart.

Footnote

1. Power into Art: Creating Tate Modern, Bankside, London: Allen Lane, 2000.