9.Second-rate 18th-century portraits, third-rate 19th-century landscapes, and a collection of modern paintings that the Tate wouldn't even store in its vaults.
14.In her introduction to the Tate's Hirst catalogue, Sheikha Mayassa writes that “Art—even controversial art—can unlock communication between diverse nations, peoples and histories.”
16.Years later, after a series of lengthy negotiations with the Tate gallery in London, he donated nine of them to the museum, where they still hang today.
18.It is a shame that Gertler's wartime masterpiece, “Merry-Go-Round” (1916) , hanging in Tate Britain, is missing from this show, as is Nash's important 1919 work “The Menin Road”.
19.Nicknamed the " blade of light" for its sleek design — it connects old and new-- Trad and Mod; St. Paul's Cathedral with the great Tate Modern art gallery.
20.It is not pretty – and the fact that the collector who has loaned the bed to the Tate paid £2.54 million pounds for it, will not, of course, weigh with the doubters.