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Sunday Feature: Tate Modern - Exploding the Canon

Series 1, episode 0

Since its inception, Tate Modern was set to move beyond the canon of western art history into the relatively unchartered waters of the global contemporary. This programme was set to celebrate Tate Modern's 20th anniversary, but was stalled by the pandemic, during which time Tate has been severely criticised for institutional arrogance, entreated to decolonise and to deal with its patriarchal past. For Director Frances Morris, there is an urgency to ensure that Tate Modern is fit for the future. She talks to artists Lubaina Himid, Sonia Boyce and Suzanne Dhaliwal, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, critics and curators including Clara Kim and Hammad Nassar, and lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin to understand how Tate can not only explode the canon, but redesign the institution in which art is shown