A reshuffle of Tate Britain’s collections has led to it being accused of reducing art to social history
Everyone has a favourite. For some it might be John Singer Sargent’s luminous 1885-6 image of two young girls hanging paper lanterns in a summer evening garden. Well, don’t worry, despite all the fuss about Tate Britain’s radical reorganisation, that pretty painting is still on the wall of the popular London art gallery.
Detractors of the big new rehang, such as the Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones, are accusing the gallery of instructing art lovers what to think, while others, in contrast, are praising curators for shaking up conventional views of British art and what it can show us.
