Tate is coming to a screen near you

The Tate wants its presence to be felt beyond the Turbine Hall or Liverpool Docks and, to that end, it plans to transform its website into a broadband arts channel. Tate Media, which will launch this September, will operate across the internet, television production, magazine publishing and major public events.

The gallery is one of the first major arts institutions to create a division to oversee its new media output and, according to the head of Tate Media, Will Gompertz, intellectual property rights are at the heart of its leap into the cultural future. "It is important that within the visual arts landscape Tate has an arts channel that gets our point across and works very closely with artists and curators," he says. "Now we can't have that unless we own the content." Read the full article of the Guardian