European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rodin s famous work the kiss dominates one end of a Large remodeler tale gallery display area that is devoted to sculpture. Tate gallery gets new look new York times visitors to London s famed tale gallery Are marvelling about the results of its first  reorganization in More than 20 years. Citing . Eliot s belief that the past should be altered by the present As much As the present is directed by the past the Art museum s director. Nicholas Serota. Said $1.65 million and seven months were spent in an Effort to inject t Larity order and life into the tale s vast collection. The reorganization conceived by Serota was financed largely through outside contributions. T he exhibits opened to the Public in Lale january. The new display titled past present future is Laid out in chronological order. It begins by tracing the development of British Art from 1550 to the age of impressionism and then examines the relationship of British Art to other european Art and to american Art in the 20th Century. Classical and modern Art Are no longer rigidly divided and British modern Art has been Given More prominence moving from the basement galleries to display space on the main floor. Each of the tale s 10 rooms has been Given a theme like British painting in the 16th and 17lh centuries William Blake and his followers figurative Art Between the wars and Anthony Caro and Bulish abstract painting " Wyndham Lewis David . Nevinson whose works were hidden before among the cubits now emerge in a room titled Vor Licis and the Bloomsbury  British figure painting brings together the works of Leon Kossoff. Rank Auerbach . Kitaj and Lutian Freud and includes the recently purchased Freud painting. Standing by the rugs. Which depicts a female nude in the artist s studio leaning against a Heap of pain smeared rags. Because space does not permit the display of All of the tale s works at one time and because Serota believes in creative change what a visitor sees on display now is not necessarily what a visitor will see in a year. Next fall the themes of a do in rooms will change. Subsequently such changes will be made every nine to 12 months. We believe such a policy is preferable to an evenhanded representation of everything at All times scrotal explains in the foreword to the Catalon thai accompanies the new display. Our aim is to enhance enjoyment and deepen understanding rather than in encourage visitors to look Only at those works with which they Are most  As part of the reorganization a gallery has been Given Over to two sorts of temporary displays Cross currents which will examine or example the persistence of classical themes in painting and the exterior of the tile gallery looks the same As before the changes Are inside. Sculpture from the 18lh Century Onward and focus which will bring together the museum s Complete holdings of single artists like Walter Richard sicker or John Singer Sargent. In the lower galleries scheduled to open to the Public in Lale february More space is being made for works on paper. Str aurally the greatest changes have been made in the Duveen galleries. Stripped of false ceilings and screen Walls these Are now a grand sweeping space devoted to sculpture with the a by Rodin at one end and the work of various modern european sculptors throughout. In keeping with Serota s aim of coherence the exhibit rooms throughout the museum have been painted in similar hues of terracotta greenish Gray or White. The Walls of a few rooms have been sheathed in red silk. Signs with easy to read introductory lexis and extended labels have also been introduced. So far response to the changes has been positive. In a review for the times of London Norman Rosenthal of the Royal Academy of arts wrote the tale gallery Over the last decade in spite of excellent moments usually in the form of temporary exhibitions had become a Dull place to visit. The galleries were ugly full of works of Art presented mostly in an  Way. Ii had become a collection to visit dutifully once in a  now said Rosenthal a total transformation has taken  Ohn Akers an Arl Leacher from Hertfordshire who has been visiting the Tate regularly since 1959. Was impressed. I think in s fantastic what they have done he said. There is More of a rationale now. It s a much easier place to  Nina Hollon a sculptor from Boston who last visited the Tate seven years ago agreed. I think the new display is very intelligent she said. Before it seemed to be a Hodgepodge of All sorts of things. It has definitely changed for the  22 stripes Migi Zini