I found this quote earlier, which made me laugh!
The boxy white building has been likened by some to a fish-processing plant.
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The boxy white building has been likened by some to a fish-processing plant.
Vince, Charlie and Sam wrote:Just wondering if anybody is planning to be at the opening ceremony tomorrow? We are going to go down and take a look, I'll post some pics.
I found this quote earlier, which made me laugh!The boxy white building has been likened by some to a fish-processing plant.
Margate's £17 million showpiece gallery has been branded the Turn Away Contemporary by angry and disappointed visitors.
People turning up yesterday were greeted by closed doors and a notice saying the gallery was shut, and staff were stationed outside to pass on the message in person.
The main complaint is that the "closed on Monday" message was not made obvious enough - on the gallery's website, in literature handed out or in press, radio and TV broadcasts. Disappointed visitors say the words "gallery now open. Free admission" were displayed at the top of the homepage on the Turner Contemporary website on Monday.
The general perception in all the advanced publicity is that Turner Contemporary was open from April 16-25 as part of a massive 10-day welcoming celebration.
Primary school teacher Julie Simpson from Canterbury planned to take her children - Rosie, 15; Poppy,13; and Charlie 11 - plus her mother who was on holiday visiting from Liverpool.
She said: "All the hype said that Turner Contemporary is opening with a massive 10-day celebration. We were urged to come along and be part of Margate's great new attraction and support the town.
"We did it and wished we hadn't bothered. It was shut. There were people on the steps turning folk away. One of the staff even had the nerve to tell me I should know that all art galleries shut on a Monday."
1234567890 wrote:Why did no one complain when the lifeboat building was built, or did they.
TC replaced the view of the lifeboat, so I think it’s an improvement.
Now we got, art galleries, theatres, bars,Restaurants, cafés, just like buzzing Southbank Lon, and to top it off, dreamland.
http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/press ... eid=678012 sea.
Vince, Charlie and Sam wrote:In the news for all the wrong reasons this week...Margate's £17 million showpiece gallery has been branded the Turn Away Contemporary by angry and disappointed visitors.
People turning up yesterday were greeted by closed doors and a notice saying the gallery was shut, and staff were stationed outside to pass on the message in person.
The main complaint is that the "closed on Monday" message was not made obvious enough - on the gallery's website, in literature handed out or in press, radio and TV broadcasts. Disappointed visitors say the words "gallery now open. Free admission" were displayed at the top of the homepage on the Turner Contemporary website on Monday.
The general perception in all the advanced publicity is that Turner Contemporary was open from April 16-25 as part of a massive 10-day welcoming celebration.
Primary school teacher Julie Simpson from Canterbury planned to take her children - Rosie, 15; Poppy,13; and Charlie 11 - plus her mother who was on holiday visiting from Liverpool.
She said: "All the hype said that Turner Contemporary is opening with a massive 10-day celebration. We were urged to come along and be part of Margate's great new attraction and support the town.
"We did it and wished we hadn't bothered. It was shut. There were people on the steps turning folk away. One of the staff even had the nerve to tell me I should know that all art galleries shut on a Monday."
I never knew all art galleries shut on a Monday either.
They say that there is no such thing as bad taste, only other peoples', but on this I do completely agree with Bob. It is the right building in the wrong location, and is totally out of keeping with the historic harbour. It is like building a branch of Tesco next to Stonehenge. I struggled for ages to think of something positive to say about it and the best I could come up with was "at least it's not as bad as Arlington House".
I hope it is successful, not least for the traders in the Old Town where we have seen enormous improvements in anticipation of the visitors the Turner Contemporary might bring- although my personal feeling is that after the initial rush, visitor numbers will dwindle to the numbers seen by similar recently built Art Centres, such as West Bromwich Arts Centre, built for similar vanity reasons of trying to "raise the tone" of the town and planned when the economy was awash with money.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/28/public-arts-centre-west-bromwich
Dreamland could have been re-opened years ago, for a fraction of the cost, requiring no further subsidy, would create far more employment and bring far more money into the area than the Turner Contemporary ever will, a point on which I am sure even Bob would agree.
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