Our great art institutions have reduced British history to a scrapheap of shame

Calvin Po | The Spectator | 12th August 2023

A Londoner, from Hong Kong, laments curatorial politics behind the re-launched National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain. “The curators seem to want to tell only the obvious story: that British history is a scrapheap of shame. Underwhelming artists [are centred] for political reasons. There is a profound crisis within the arts: national institutions have succumbed to the ever-fracturing logic of identity politics and given up on the possibility of [art] creating any sense of commonality.”