by The number of visitors from Tate Great Britain continues to rise from year to year and Tate Modern is the most visited Museum of Modern Art in the world. Over 6 million people visited a Tate gallery in 2024. It would be fairer to compare with an average annual visit to Covid.
As your article states, the number of British visitors to the galleries has returned to 95% of the pre-Pandemic level. The number of visitors at paid exhibitions at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain are also back in front of the Koviden. Almost the entire remaining deficiency is located in the free collections of international tourists. Another 1 million people who deal with Tate work in exhibitions worldwide. While the demographic changes in European visit had an impact, our success with the local audience, the achievement, which gave us a strong platform as always as a future platform, which gave us a strong platform as a future platform.
Maria Balshaw
Director, Tate
• I would have to agree with them that the act is responsible for things other than Brexit and Covid. Since the intoxicating years of the Noughies and teenagers, it seems that the act has not really grasped the imagination with its exhibition offers. Where are the shows of the size of the cruel tariff, which is newly illuminated, what could and could do a photo? There was also nothing that corresponded to the intestinal of the Mona Hatoum Retrospective, the joy of Christian Marclays The Clock, the order of the Ingust of Olafur Eliasson’s The Weather Project or the political invention of Ai Weisweis Sunflower Seeds.
Apart from the portrait show Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in Tate Britain and the El Anatsui pieces in the turbine hall, there was little in terms of contemporary art to set the pulse races recently. It does not help that the gymnast price-a focus of the national conversation is so reserved that it hardly justifies a mention in the press. Perhaps contemporary art no longer has any energy, but in the present time we need a lively art and public gallery scene to include the discussion on urgent topics.
Catherine Bliss
Tonbridge, Kent
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