{"id":330,"date":"2006-02-19T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=330"},"modified":"2006-02-19T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T18:47:07","slug":"tate-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/02\/tate-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having a delicious breakfast at 202 again and meeting up with Kath from Oxford, we went to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/\">Tate Modern<\/a> down at Southbank. It is a huge warehouse building directly opposite the Millenium bridge and located next to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeares-globe.org\/\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe Theatre<\/a>. Entry is free except ot some special exhibits, but the rest of the collections are free to view. The gallery shows some interesting collections such as the Embankment structure by Rachel Whiteread pictured below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image329\" src=\"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/TateRachelWhiteread.jpg\" alt=\"Tate Modern\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Other collections were a little disappointing to me, but mainly because they were far too abstract for me to understand or even try to understand. A good example is one in which red paint was &#8220;violently&#8221; thrown at a canvas so that it would achieve some message which I couldn&#8217;t quite get immediately out of a canvas simply covered in red paint. 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