Editing Tate (section)

==Controversies==

*In 1971, an exhibition by [[Robert Morris (artist)|Robert Morris]] called Bodyspacemotionthings was closed after five days due to health and safety concerns.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/06/tate-modern-bodyspacemotionthings-turbine-hall Tate Modern's Turbine Hall recreates a 1971 art sensation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330143858/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/06/tate-modern-bodyspacemotionthings-turbine-hall |date=30 March 2021 }} The Guardian, 6 April 2009</ref>
*In 1972, the Tate Gallery purchased a work by [[Carl Andre]] called ''[[Equivalent VIII]].'' During a 1976 exhibition of the work, ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper published an article using the work to complain about institutional waste of taxpayers' money. The article made the piece infamous and it was subjected to ridicule in the media and vandalism. The work is still popularly known as ''The Bricks'', and has entered the British public lexicon.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
*Each year, the [[Turner Prize]] is held at a Tate Gallery (historically at Tate Britain) and is awarded to an artist who is either British or primarily working in Great Britain. It is the subject of great controversy and creates much media attention for [[Art of the United Kingdom#Contemporary British art|contemporary British art]], as well as attracting [[Stuckist demonstrations|demonstrations]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Chappet|first=Marie-Claire|title=The Turner Prize's most controversial moments|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/turner-prize/8834871/The-Turner-Prizes-most-controversial-moments.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/turner-prize/8834871/The-Turner-Prizes-most-controversial-moments.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=20 October 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*In 1995, it was revealed that the Tate had accepted a gift of £20,000 from art fraudster [[John Drewe]]. The gallery had given Drewe access to its archives which he then used to forge documents authenticating fake modern paintings that he then sold.<ref>Carter, R. G. (2007). Tainted archives: Art, archives, and authenticity. Archivaria, 63, 75.</ref>
*In 1998, [[Nicholas Serota|Sir Nicholas Serota]], director of Tate, conceived 'Operation Cobalt', the secret and ultimately successful buyback of two of the Tate's paintings by [[J. M. W. Turner]] that had been stolen from a German gallery in 1994. See [[Frankfurt art theft (1994)]].
*In 2006, it was revealed that the Tate was the only national-funded museum not to be accredited by the [[Museums, Libraries and Archives Council]] (MLA), as it did not wish to abide by guidelines that deaccessioned work should first be offered to other museums. The MLA threatened to bar the Tate from acquiring works under the [[Acceptance in Lieu]] (AIL) scheme, whereby works are given to the nation to settle [[Inheritance Tax in the United Kingdom|inheritance tax]]. A total of 1,800 museums were accredited by the MLA.<ref name="artnewspaper">"Tate Is Not a Museum", ''[[The Art Newspaper]]'', 14 August 2006. Retrieved from the [[Internet Archive]], 14 March 2010.[https://web.archive.org/web/20060814004225/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=212]</ref>
*Tate has been criticised for accepting sponsorship from [[BP]]. Justice and climate change campaigners including [[Platform (art group)|Platform London]], ''Art Not Oil'' and [[Liberate Tate]] have called for a protest against the petrol company's sponsorship of the gallery, including the [[2012 Cultural Olympiad]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Needham|first=Alex|title=Tate may not renew BP sponsorship deal after environmental protests|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/dec/13/tate-bp-partnership-environmental-protests|newspaper=The Guardian|date=13 December 2011}}</ref>