ARTNET NEWS
By Javier Pes, November 21, 2018
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| Simeon Solomon, Night looking upon Sleep her beloved child II (1895). Courtesy of Sotheby's. |
Nicholas Serota, the chairman of Arts Council England and a former director of the Tate, was among an illustrious panel of advisors who collectively resigned from the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum yesterday. The exodus was in protest of a decision to sell works from the collection of the museum, which was founded a century ago by Jewish artists in London’s East End, in order to fund a radical change in direction from its Anglo-Jewish roots. Serota and ten other advisors have criticized the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum’s decision to sell works at Sotheby’s in London yesterday and this morning. This is not the first time the Ben Uri Museum has been at the center of a row over selling off works of art. [
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| David Bomberg, At the Window (1919). Courtesy of Sotheby’s. |
