'The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change that'

Our visit to Tate modern

Wednesday, 13 July 2016

In December 1992, The Tate Trustees had announced their plans to create a separate gallery for modern and contemporary art located within London. The Bankside Power station was selected as the new gallery site in 1994 with Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron were assigned to convert the building into a gallery. In 1996 the deign plans were revealed with a £12 million grant from the English Partnerships regeneration agency and the work had begun.
Since opening in May 2000 more than 40 million people have visited the amazing site becoming one of the UK's top three tourist attractions and manages to generate an estimated £100 million in economic benefits to London annually

So of course, we had to make a visit there, using the district line we set off to visit people who used art to showcase their outlook on ideologies


Specifically, we fixated solely on feminist artists finding works from 

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