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The Honourable Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, CH (born 27 April 1946) is director of the Tate art museums and galleries. He was director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, before becoming in 1988 director of the Tate, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. He has been the chairman of the Turner Prize jury. Serota was knighted in the 1999 New Year Honours〔("Major leads honours list for peace" ), BBC, 31 December 1998. Retrieved 14 April 2007〕 and appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to art. ==Early life== Nicholas Serota, the son of Stanley and Beatrice Serota, grew up in Hampstead, North London. His father was a civil engineer and his mother a civil servant, later a life peer and Labour Minister for Health in Harold Wilson's government and local government ombudsman. Serota was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School (where he was appointed School Captain)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Old Haberdashers Association - School Captains )〕 and then read Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge (University of Cambridge), before switching to History of Art. He completed a master's degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, under the supervision of Michael Kitson and Anita Brookner; his thesis was on the work of J. M. W. Turner. In 1969, Serota became Chairman of the new Young Friends of the Tate organisation with a membership of 750. They took over a building in Pear Place, south of Waterloo Bridge, arranging lectures and Saturday painting classes for local children. The Young Friends staged their own shows and applied for an Arts Council grant, but were asked to desist by the Tate Chairman and Trustees, who were concerned with the appearance of official backing for these ventures. Serota and his committee resigned, which caused the end of the Young Friends, whose accommodation was taken over for rehearsals by the National Theatre.〔Spalding, Frances (1998). ''The Tate: A History'', pp. 150–151. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. ISBN 1-85437-231-9.〕 In 1970, he joined the Arts Council of Great Britain's Visual Arts Department as a regional exhibitions officer. In 1973 he was made Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (now Modern Art Oxford), where he organised an important early exhibition of work by Joseph Beuys and formed an important working relationship with Alexander "Sandy" Nairne, who worked with Serota at various points in the following years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Serota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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