As its director quits, Tate Britain must find the fun factor – or shut its doors

Now Penelope Curtis is leaving, the intellectually impoverished cousin of the Bankside behemoth is free to flourish ... if only it can start seducing us

Tate Britain has been in the news this week – but the biggest story was the least reported. Amid all the excitement about Tracey Emin’s My Bed returning “home”, the Millbank museum more quietly revealed that its director Penelope Curtis is to leave after just five controversial years.

Curtis had become the focus of interest at Tate Britain in a way that wasn’t healthy for her or the museum. Her record was actually mixed: she improved the main collection displays, putting more of the Tate’s collection on view. That was good.

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