"In 1987 a Civil Service inquiry decided that the pay of the Director of the Tate Gallery should match that of the Dir…"

"For in spite of much greater public interest in all aspects of visual culture, including design and architecture, the…"

"In 1964 I was at school, planning to study economics and sociology, when curiosity took me to the Tate Gallery to see…"

"Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two b…"

"For the late twentieth-century museum director there is no more certain prospect for audience acclaim and sponsor suc…"

"After thirty years of looking at new work in galleries and even newer work in studios, I am very familiar with the ex…"

"A visit to a studio never fails to test my resources. It constantly reminds me of the condition in which most people …"

"For many years, and like many British people, I had little feeling for the most expressive and roughest form of early…"

"The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on …"

"Craft, I would argue, is not an essential part of art, though skill is. That skill may indeed find its expression in …"