Tate Modern

The Tate Modern is a former power station on the southern bank of the Thames across from St. Paul's, crossed by the Millenium Bridge footpath. It holds the Tate Collection post-1900. It was interesting; I like certain forms of modern art very much, and in fact am obsessed with Kandinsky and respond very well to 1960s Pop artists like Lichtenstein as well as Dadaists from the teens and twenties. Only one Kandinksy unfortunately, and very few Dadaists. I was amused to see how little regarded my least favoroite forms of modern art seemed to be; the multiple fluorescent light installations and over-sized canvas pieces painted in a single color were quickly walked past. The Tate is also fortunate to have Piero Manzoni's Artist's Shit #4, in convenient canned form, and this also found few patrons! The Tate purchased this item in 2002 for about $45,000--the remaining pieces of Manzoni's original 90 cans are increasingly valuable as many of them are said to have exploded over the years!