(1946-04-27) 27 April 1946 (age 78)[1] Hampstead, London, England[2]
Spouse(s)
Angela Beveridge (m. 1973; div. 1995); Teresa Gleadowe (m. 1997), now Lady Serota
Children
2
Parent
The Baroness Serota
Education
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree
Alma mater
Christ's College, Cambridge; Courtauld Institute of Art
Awards
Knight Bachelor (1999) Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (2013)
The Hon. Sir Nicholas Andrew SerotaCH (born 27 April 1946) is a British art historian and curator.
Director of the Tate from 1988 to 2017, Serota is currently Chairman of Arts Council England, a role which he has held since February 2017.[3][4][5]
Serota was previously Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London,[6] before becoming Director of the Tate in 1988. He was also Chairman of the Turner Prize jury until 2007.[7]
^Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3570. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
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criticisms of the Tate Gallery's art, he coined the term "Serota tendency" after its director NicholasSerota. Although Sewell appeared on BBC Radio 4 in the early...
the show ranged from "dreadful" to "the next big thing in art". Sir NicholasSerota, director of the Tate gallery, visited the show and called it "lively"...
Maria Balshaw has been Director of Tate since 2017, succeeding Sir NicholasSerota (1988 to 2017). Under the Director, Kerstin Mogull has been Managing...
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He is survived by his mother and brother. Following his death, Sir NicholasSerota, director of the Tate gallery, said: Angus Fairhurst was always deprecating...
experience and accessibility of contemporary art". The Tate director, NicholasSerota, praised the donation saying it would help to make Tate Modern a "truly...
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boggled the minds of the Romans. It would have boggled Gustave Eiffel." NicholasSerota, a member of the design panel, said that Orbit was a tower with an...
disappearing up its own arse ... led by cultural tsars such as the Tate's Sir NicholasSerota". Massow was consequently forced to resign. At the end of the year...
landmark building The Red House was formally opened by Tate Director Sir NicholasSerota who hailed the opening as "a historic event in the history of education...
then in the 1980s it enjoyed a resurgence under the Directorship of NicholasSerota. The gallery had a major refurbishment in 1986; and in 2009 expanded...
University second crew Isis.[citation needed] Nairne came into contact with NicholasSerota, while working at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1974–76.[citation...
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