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Nicholas Serota, the Glossary

The Hon. Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota (born 27 April 1946) is a British art historian and curator.^[1]

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BBC Board members
Directors of the Tate galleries

Alan Bowness

Sir Alan Bowness CBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) was a British art historian, art critic, and museum director. Nicholas Serota and Alan Bowness are Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art and directors of the Tate galleries.

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Alan Colquhoun

Alan Harold Colquhoun (27 June 1921 – 13 December 2012) was an English architect, historian, critic and teacher.

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Anish Kapoor

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Nicholas Serota and Anish Kapoor are British Jews.

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Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English novelist and art historian. Nicholas Serota and Anita Brookner are Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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Antony Gormley

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

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Art Fund

Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation.

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Art history

Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past.

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Art world

The art world comprises everyone involved in producing, commissioning, presenting, preserving, promoting, chronicling, criticizing, buying and selling fine art.

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Arts Council England

Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Arts Council of Great Britain

The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain.

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Auction

An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Bankside

Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota

Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, DBE (née Katz; 15 October 1919 – 21 October 2002) was a British Government minister and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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BP Portrait Award

The BP Portrait Award was an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.

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Brian Sewell

Brian Alfred Christopher Bushell Sewell (15 July 1931 – 19 September 2015) was an English art critic. Nicholas Serota and Brian Sewell are Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art and people educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School.

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Burke's Peerage

Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher, considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom.

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Camden Art Centre

Camden Art Centre (known as Hampstead Arts Centre until 1967 and Camden Arts Centre until 2020) is a contemporary art gallery in the London Borough of Camden, England.

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Carl Andre

Carl Andre (September 16, 1935 – January 24, 2024) was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Charity Commission for England and Wales

The Charity Commission for England and Wales is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities.

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Charles Thomson (artist)

Charles Thomson (born 6 February 1953) is an English artist, poet and photographer.

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Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructure that may have been neglected.

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Civil service

The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

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Conceptual art

Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Courtauld Institute of Art

The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as the Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Departmentalization

Departmentalization (or departmentalisation) refers to the process of grouping activities into departments.

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Director (business)

The term director is a title given to the senior management staff of businesses and other large organizations.

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Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism.

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East End of London

The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.

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Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker.

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Elstree

Elstree is a large village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England.

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English criminal law

English criminal law concerns offences, their prevention and the consequences, in England and Wales.

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Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics.

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Figurative art

Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Frankfurt art theft (1994)

Three famous paintings were stolen from the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt in 1994.

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Gagosian Gallery

The Gagosian Gallery is a modern and contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Larry Gagosian.

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Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter (born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist.

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Grant (money)

A grant is a financial award given by a government entity, foundation, corporation, or other organization to an individual or organization for a specific purpose.

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Haberdashers' Boys' School

Haberdashers' Boys' School (formally Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School), is a 4–18 boys public school in Elstree, Hertfordshire, England. Nicholas Serota and Haberdashers' Boys' School are people educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School.

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Hampstead

Hampstead is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.

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Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976.

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Health minister

A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and other social security services.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Howard Hodgkin

Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. Nicholas Serota and Howard Hodgkin are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.

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John Miller (architect)

John Harmsworth Miller CBE (18 August 1930 – 24 February 2024) was a British architect.

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Joseph Beuys

Joseph Heinrich Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and, with Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU).

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Julian Spalding

Julian Spalding (born 15 June 1947 in Lewisham, South London) is an English art critic, writer, broadcaster and a former curator. Nicholas Serota and Julian Spalding are English curators.

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Jury

A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.

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King's Cross, London

King's Cross is a district in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, located on either side of Euston Road, in the outskirts of north London and central London, England, north of Charing Cross.

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Knight Bachelor

The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Liberate Tate

Liberate Tate is an art collective exploring the role of creative intervention in social change.

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Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist.

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Maria Balshaw

Maria Jane Balshaw CBE (born 24 January 1970) is director of the Tate art museums and galleries. Nicholas Serota and Maria Balshaw are directors of the Tate galleries.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Michael Kitson

Michael William Lely Kitson (30 January 1926 – 7 August 1998) was a British art historian who became an international authority on the work of the painter Claude Lorrain. Nicholas Serota and Michael Kitson are Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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Modern Art Oxford

Modern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1965 in Oxford, England.

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Modern Painters (magazine)

Modern Painters is a monthly art magazine.

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National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.

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National Lottery (United Kingdom)

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom.

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Norman Rosenthal

Sir Norman Rosenthal (born 8 November 1944) is a British independent curator and art historian. Nicholas Serota and Norman Rosenthal are English curators and Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Ombudsman

An ombudsman (also), ombud, ombuds, bud, ombudswoman, ombudsperson, or public advocate is a government employee who investigates and tries to resolve complaints, usually through recommendations (binding or not) or mediation.

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Order of the Companions of Honour

The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms. Nicholas Serota and order of the Companions of Honour are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Peter Bazalgette

Sir Peter Lytton Bazalgette (born 22 May 1953) is a British television executive and producer, also active in the fields of the Arts and broader creative industries.

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Peter Fuller

Peter Michael Fuller (31 August 1947 – 28 April 1990) was a British art critic and magazine editor.

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Platform (art group)

Platform London is an interdisciplinary London-based art and campaigning collective founded in 1983 that creates projects with social justice and environmental justice themes.

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Power station

A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.

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Richard Dimbleby Lecture

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture (also known as the Dimbleby Lecture) is an annual television lecture founded in memory of Richard Dimbleby (1913—1965), the BBC broadcaster.

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Richard Rogers

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British-Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture. Nicholas Serota and Richard Rogers are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly in London, England.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Sandy Nairne

Alexander Robert Nairne (born 8 June 1953) is a British art historian and curator. Nicholas Serota and Sandy Nairne are English curators.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Sheena Wagstaff

Sheena Wagstaff (born 1956/1957) is a British art historian and curator who oversaw the opening of the Met Breuer in her role as head of the Met's modern and contemporary department.

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Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision

Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision is one of the paintings that was made as a part of the Stuckism art movement,Cripps, Charlotte.

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Stuart Pearson Wright

Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975, Northampton) is an English portrait artist, winner of the BP Portrait Award.

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Stuckism

Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art.

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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Tate Modern

Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, defined as from after 1900, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.

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The arts

The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Establishment

In sociology and in political science, the term The Establishment describes the dominant social group, the elite who control a polity, an organization, or an institution.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Honourable

The Honourable (Commonwealth English) or The Honorable (American English; see spelling differences) (abbreviation: Hon., Hon'ble, or variations) is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Serota

Also known as Nicholas A. Serota, Serota, Nicholas, Sir Nicholas Serota.

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Directors of the Tate galleries

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