To mark the opening of the much anticipated, revamped Tate Modern, with its new Switch building more than doubling the amount of space it has on London's Bankside, a look behind the scenes to reveal new director Frances Morris's drive to increase the amount of international, female and performance-related work to make it a museum for the 21st century. With exclusive access to the Tate's 'secret stores', where some of the new work will come from, members of its congregation explain how they feel the £260m transformation of this cathedral to contemporary art is money well spent, while others think its expansion in a time of recession is sacrilegious. Andrew Marr and Brenda Emmanus present from the opening night celebrations with contributions from Tate supremo Sir Nicholas Serota, artists Tracey Emin and Antony Gormley, critics Waldemar Januszczak and Jennifer Higgie, and comedians and painters Harry Hill and Vic Reeves.

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1. blow up that secret hangar
2. poor children. mass mind control
3. kilometres of human hair....could have been donated to chemo patients and people who suffer from alopecia.
4. Best thread to follow! https://www.instagram.com/p/BTEn6vthXTX/
5. Anyone has problems with the sound, half the video is mute 😕
6. The more I seek out to educate myself about modern art the more I become disenchanted by it. It's the people involved, they're draining. The pretentiousness makes me feel like shitting on a floor and say "Go ahead, challenge yourself to give this meaning". And I guarantee you they would find the right overinflated words to give it meaning, after all they give meaning to shit all the time, obviously. I've never been so glad I turned down all my scholarships to art school.
7. this type of modern art is a signal of the decay of the West....these art 'aficionados' are those who get emotional nourishment from scatological feces....that's how bad it has gotten, when a Jeff Koons sells in the millions..Gerhard Richter used to paint like Vermeer....now he drags raw paint across a canvas with an industrial squeegee. ...in the near future we will have ROBOT art, now that gesture and form have become the purview of a soulless, mechanistic band of wealthy propagandists.....Goebbels may have had a point back in the 1930's Germany: "....when I hear the word culture I reach for my gun"....but one does not have to be anti-Semitic to see through the egregious state of art- the art that is pimped to a gullible public searching for a meaning that is not available.
8. hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha
9. beautiful dress!
10. so many hijabs there. islamization is real.
11. Disneyland Art of no substance or character.Another nail in the coffin of a once wonderful Art form being trashed on a daily basis by non Artists. and their promoters
12. loved the Tate.
13. Frances Morris says the hair room is one of her favorite spaces that says so much about her ambitions for the Tate Modern. How long will the public accept her directorship? She is an avowed champion for women artists and for art from outside Europe. Well, fine and good, if that slice of the population has been overlooked when it merits attention. But to promote this stance going in seems to be an exclusivist policy that asserts her personal bias when selecting art. The hair and bumpers installation is a low point in the history of art, especially from the standpoint of a formalist aesthetic. Conceptually thin as well -- what is the big deal about collecting hair from a lot of people and then draping it so carelessly? You want a brilliant woman artist? Get Ann Hamilton to do one of her large scale installations, as she did in New York City with “the event of a thread” at the Park Avenue Armory.
14. "art". Yeah, right.
15. Movers and shakers? Bwahaha... how modern.
16. Nice building, crap art.
17. New Garbage for rich garbage collectors.
18. Read about this stuff in "Modern Art Future Garbage."
19. sorry, but it is not "infinity". It's a coffee table
20. They are sacrificing quality for cultural inclusivity. 'Oh look here a spirally jungly thing, Christ knows what it means but she's a woman so it's all good' 👎🏻