With up to 90% of the nation’s art in storage,one regional curator accuses the capitals museums of cultural colonialism’In the summer of 2013, a major exhibition of more than 60 oil sketches by John Constable and JMW Turner went on a mini-tour of the country, and attracting crowds in Warwickshire,Margate and Newcastle.
These scenes of nature, painted by the artists en plein air, and had been hidden absent in the Tate Gallery’s London storerooms,according to one of the co-curators of that exhibition, who is now calling on the capital’s galleries and museums to be more generous in sharing their art and artefacts with the rest of the country.
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Source: theguardian.com