Bonfire night we find ourselves at a party with both bonfire and performance — not to mention Bertie’s cake with a sugar-printed image of the King and Guy Fawkes. The bonfire itself held a rather different but familiar figure. It is a strange ritual, as many noted yesterday. James may have survived but his son…
Tag: photography
Conduits of the Unseen
Let me urge you, since there are a few days left, to do what you can to see Conduits of the Unseen: Women Artists Imagine Other Worlds at the Andrew Edlin Gallery just south of Canal [but do avoid Canal at all costs — ugh, the gauntlet of hawkers that fill the pavement!]. To the…
Animal Mummies
I headed up to the Berkshires on Friday to meet up with fab gal pal Stephanie to catch the Animal Mummies exhibit at the apparently newly-renovated Berkshire Museum. It seems like ages since I’ve been up that way but it’s always a lovely drive and not that far. Still haven’t made it to Edith Wharton’s…
Carved in Dundee
World Cup Fever has not completely abated; many supporting Norway this weekend…
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Today the massive upload — well, one of them! I have a few massive uploads to come. But this one is the Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at the V&A which included a huge amount of materials from the beginnings of the couturier’s life to the afterlife mostly represented by current designer Daniel Rosenberry, who channels…
The Sun & The Moon: Saatchi
I am grateful to my partner in art crime, Stephanie, because she asked if I were going to this exhibit and I had not really considered it, but then here was another poster in the underground passage to the V&A as I was on my way to Schiaparelli (yes, soon…) and I thought huh, just…
The Symptomatic Surreal
Today it’s time to swing by the Sigmund Freud Museum in London to see ‘The Symptomatic Surreal’ a voyage through the mind of Leonora Carrington as she reels from the horrors of the Second World War and the those of incarceration in a mental institute. I think this crystalises the moment when the narrative shifts…
The Tate: From Tanks to Tracey
No trip to London feels complete without a stroll to the Tate — at least one of them, often both. This time around a brevity of time even for one, and yet I still seemed to take too many photos. Sometimes they turn out quite lovely like this image of the Millennium Bridge on the…
Random Bits
As I try to organise the billionty photos from the trip, a few random bits of madness glimpsed along the way. Bob Benchley getting an egg wash from Ginger Rogers (not pictured) in my tiny hotel room — big contrast to my spacious digs in Manchester, where there was room even for an easy chair….
Anselm Kiefer: Le Alchimiste
Apart from the massive tarot exhibit, the other one I was really looking forward to was Anselm Kiefer’s Le Alchimiste. Obviously the topic grabbed my attention at once — the alchemical women from history and how they fought to share in the knowledge and learning of their times despite the very real barriers from discouragement…