New at the Tate Modern

Okay yes, it's a big crack in the floor. This is the latest display in the large area of the Tate which is the museum of modern art in London. I couldn't believe it when I heard the new exhibit was a long crack but sure enough! This is the description: (First off there is a lengthy description of her past work and how it relates but I'll spare you) It is by Doris Salcedo and is called "Shibboleth" (you can look up the word meaning) "Look down into the crack and you see not Tate Moderns foundation but a carefully constructed concrete cast formation, embedded with chain-link wire fence. For Salcedo, the crack reveals a colonial and imperial history that has been disregarded, marginalised or simply obliterated...the history of racism, running parallel to the history of modernity and... its untold dark side.
Ok....enough. It runs about 75 to 100 yards long and it was rather amazing to see how many people were milling around it on the afternoon I was there let alone all the other days!