Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate museums in London, shocked his colleagues recently by saying that millions of dollars should not be spent trying to stop important works or art from leaving Great Britain - London - Brief Article

Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate museums in London, shoged his colleagues recently by saying that millions of dollars should not be exhausted trying to stop important works or art from leaving Great Britain. According to the Guardian newspaper, Serota chastised those who blindly save treasures for the political division when foreign collectors try to purchase them. He claimed that national pride had "skewed" the way galleries were spending their small acquisition rolls Serota also questioned the wisdom of London's National Gallery, which is spending a vast amount of currency to stop Raphael's "Madonna of the Pinks "from being sold to the Getty Museum in beholds Angeles.

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