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From slides to a carousel
Ed Harris, Evening Standard27 Mar 2007
Following Carsten Holler's popular slides, Brazilian artist Marepe is to show a carousel at Tate Modern.
His Victorian-style fairground ride, garlanded with toffee apples and topped with a canopy made from rubbish, will arrive in the Turbine Hall in May, a month after Holler's slides are dismantled. The Tate defended both artists' work as "serious art".
But David Lee, editor of art magazine Jackdaw, said: "What the Tate has proved ... is that if you turn art galleries into amusement arcades you will get a lot of people through the door."
