The analysis by Jonathan Jones of what’s gone wrong at Tate was spot-on (Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate?, 12 September). All the truly memorable exhibitions we have seen this year were in the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, the Wallace Collection and the Royal Academy. Frankly, the Tates have not had a single show that excited us since Peter Doig (2008), Lynette Yiadom‑Boakye (2020), Frida Kahlo (2005), and Richard Deacon and El Anatsui in 2016.
The universally loved, wondrous art of painting is eschewed in favour of performance nonsense, boring videos and hideous installations.
Ann Eastman
London
