Many museums, including the Tate Modern and British Museum, do not charge an entry fee and cash-strapped locals and visitors can also enjoy the street theatre in Covent Garden or lunch time concerts at St.

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"The Museum of Modern Art and the The Tate Gallery have long been pioneers in the museum world, and we look forward to extending that groundbreaking spirit to the Internet, " MoMA Director Glenn Lowry said in the statement.

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Architect and academic Fritz Haeg, whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, has written a book, "Edible Landscapes", in which he calls for our lawns to be replaced by beautiful spreads of fruit and vegetables.

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Together with the Tate in London and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, they have established the New Art Trust, which will pay for acquisitions and sponsor critical research in the field of media art.

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It boasts relationships with New York City's Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim, and London's Tate, and its buildings were designed by three leading international architects.

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John Elderfield of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Elizabeth Cowling of the Tate, two curators working with Mr Golding (in a three-country team of six) on the Matisse-Picasso show.

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Bleak grey terraces have sprouted gardens, and music and markets enhance a new riverside walk from Vauxhall to Tate Modern (where a rather unpleasant 20-foot anatomical sculpture by Damien Hirst now greets visitors approaching the museum).

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