BP Walk Through

Tomorrow Tate Britain in London opens BP Walk Through British Art, a chronological re-hang of its collection in over 20 revamped galleries which has taken three years to complete (CLICK). Admission is free. The chronological order makes for some strange bedfellows, such as Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's charming A Favourite Custom (1909) with Walter Sickert’s gritty modernist junk La Hollandaise from 1906. They look like the work of different centuries. Around 500 artworks from the 1500s to the present day show the rise and fall of British art, with great masterworks leading to despicable modern tripe.