The Tate's Pinterest Pinnacle X Pivot List

Last calendar week I discovered that the Tate has a Pinterest trouble organisation human relationship (see http://pinterest.com/tategallery/ ).  I looked a chip farther in addition to realised that it was genuinely simply a agency of the Tate Gallery shops bringing their products that they're retailing to people's attention.

The alternative of Boards created yesteryear the Tate Gallery on Pinterest

So you lot click on Damien Hirst or Gerhard Richter in addition to intend you lot powerfulness boot the bucket to encounter to a greater extent than of their recent exhibitions.  You produce - but solely to the extent that the Tate is selling a poster of the function or the exhibition poster or a catalogue.  The trouble organisation human relationship has identified, organised in addition to gear upward a position out of Boards which all characteristic items for sale inward the Tate Gallery shops.

This is strictly retail folks!

The Top Ten Tate Gallery Pin List

In a real curious way, it tells you lot what people intend virtually art, artists in addition to what fine art museums are for. Could it endure that museums select right away morphed into shops?

So today the tiptop 10 boards which have attracted pins are equally follows:

1. Greetings Cards 104 pins
2. Art Reads 86 pins
3. Children's Gifts 65 pins
4. Artist Products 48 pins
5. Picasso & Modern British Art 48 pins
6. Exhibition catalogues 44 pins
7. Damien Hirst 44 pins
8. Pre-Raphaelites 43 pins
9. Children's Books 37 pins
10. Kusama 31 pins

I constitute it all rather depressing.

Is this genuinely the agency that the Tate wants to endure identified on Pinterest?  Compare for representative the Smithsonian's approach - amongst their Archives of American Art account.

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