05/09/2001

The Tate has announced that the first corporate sponsor of its new website will be British Telecom. The Tate will only say that BT has provided "considerably more" than $ 144,700 (€ 161,000) to develop the Tate site, which already contains over 14,000 images from Tate holdings online. As for the new partnership, first up is an artist's web project by Damien Hirst, who is developing a game based on his Pharmacy scheme in conjunction with a show Still Life/Object/Real Life which is to be exhibited at the Tate in October. Also planned is a virtual reality tour of the 40 Tate galleries to be completed by November. (James Goulder)