Tate Liverpool

==== Liverpool Tate
The largest modern art gallery in the UK set up with the help of the Toxteth riots.

Tate Liverpool is the home of the National Collection of Modern Art in the North of England and the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art outside London. Tate Liverpool is housed in a beautiful converted warehouse which is part of the historic Albert Dock.
The art shown is by twentieth century artists and is always interesting and thought provoking. This construction of the British National taste is much more than a simple pointer to the biological or cultural sameness of the nation. It is a construction of the British social imagination, mapped onto geographical regions and increasingly technological sites. It is an example of economic power organising itself around the politics of the aesthetic.

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===== My Skin and The Du Cane and Boehm Faimily Group. After Gawen Hamilton 1734-2000

Tate Liverpool opened in 1988 in a converted warehouse in the Albert Dock. It is the home of the National Collection of Modern Art in the north of England. In the summer of 1981 Toxteth riots played a part in making a Liverpool outstation feasible, for they shook the government and secured the Merseyside Development Corporations sense of purpose. These riots had not been the result of unemployment in Liverpool, though this was clearly a factor, but of an ultimate collapse in relations between the police and mainly black residents of Toxteth, who were sick of what seemed to be officially tolerated harassment. A chain of events was set in motion which began with the appointment of Michael Helestine, secretary of state for the Environment, as Minister for Merseyside, with the instruction to offer a 'package' to help the city. Bowness then Director of the Tate seized the opportunity to approach Heseltine with Lord Hutchinson� They spoke for ten minuets and Hesltine pronounced it a wonderful idea.

The Tate A History, Frances Spalding

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