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…
Tag: travel
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…
La Scala Museum
As usual, working backwards from the manageable to the unmanageable — you can guess how many photos I have from the tarot exhibit but lordy, I also have hundreds from the Metafisica exhibit. Baby steps, bit by bit–let’s hope I can get some sharing of the wealth done before I add even more to the…
Glimpse of Milan
As you might guess, I have a lot of photos to wrangle from the Milan trip. My first priority this week was getting the new course up and promoted (have to pay for this travel, after all!) but I am beginning to get things sorted. Milan was a whirl: beautiful, fast-paced, hot of course. Hit…
ISSS Glasgow
I am delighted to get an acceptance to the next International Society for the Study of Surrealism conference which will be in Glasgow this August. By no means a sure thing as the competition only increases as the world gets more and more surreal! Of course this is a little easier to attend than some…
Bridging the Invisible
I could not be more delighted to be part of the Creative Practices and Bridging the Invisible conference wrangled by Heather D. Freeman for The Department of Art + Art History and The Center for the Study of Ideas and Practices at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in co-sponsorship with The Center for Advanced Studies – Erlangen, The University of…
Leonor Fini – Menagerie
The video is age-restricted because there are breasts and sexual situations — it’s Fini after all. Click the link to open it if you dare! Ha. The Olney Gleason Gallery is where the Kasmin Gallery used to be (same people? Different? Doesn’t look too different. Their description also mentions future exhibits which I probably noted…
Art x Fashion
Also in the recent jaunt to NYC, a stop at the Museum @ FIT for ‘Art x Fashion’ a glimpse of how art and fashion have intertwined all the time for mutual benefit and dissection. I wanted more but that’s probably my problem. I ended up making a video visit because there was just so…