New Tate Modern director shakes the tin
May 19 2016
Picture: TAN
Frances Morris is the new director of Tate Modern, and has been interviewed by The Art Newspaper. I was glad to see her - as all museum directors must do these days - be so enthusiastic about fundraising. She says:
I love it! I can’t tell you how gratifying it is when somebody says, “I’m going to give you £100,000!” In a sense, I’m never really not fundraising: you are out talking to people and always alive to the possibilities of who you might want to bring on board. Over ten years with colleagues, I have recruited almost 300 patrons to support the acquisition committees. People who give to art are rather special people—they are very rare. One thing I haven’t done much of is corporate fundraising, but I have an appetite for it and the more mixed the economy, the greater the degree of independence.
