Things I Learned From the Tate Modern

The moustache embodied the bourgeois stupidity that precipitated World War I.

The Surrealists often used forests as a metaphor for imagination. Contrast that with the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's celebration of commercialism as having "turned the rude forests of nature into agreeable and fertile plains."

The British Vorticists took the vortex as the dominant metaphor for the energy of modern life.

Fred Williams’ landscapes are really impressive when they take up a whole wall.