'There Is No Individual Who Has Done More To Change The Way This Country Sees Art' - Nicholas Serota Transformed More Than Just The Tate Galleries

"There is no one in the British cultural world more single-minded, more monkishly devoted to the arts as a civic and public necessity, more able to bend events to his will. ... When he arrived at the Tate in September 1988, it was an affectionately regarded and faintly parochial museum; he left it earlier this month one of the most powerful forces in the international art world." In a Guardian Long Read, Charlotte Higgins looks at Serota's career as he moves on to lead Arts Council England, the country's cultural funding body.

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