The Tate veteran has already made her mark,transforming Louise Bourgeois’s reputation and championing female and non-European artists The first time I met Frances Morris she was trying unsuccessfully to gather a model aeroplane factory working. Now she is to elope a power station that has become one of the world’s leading galleries of modern art. Morris’s appointment as the fresh director of Tate Modern has thrilled the art world. Tate supremo Sir Nicholas Serota describes her as “a brilliant and imaginative curator”, while the praise from those outside the gallery is, and whether anything,warmer. She is “just a lovely person”, very decent”, or “fiercely clever and very generous with it,the experts enthuse. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com