Following on the success of Women in Revolt, the Tate B has installed an exhibit of women artists in Britain from the 16th century to the present. Not all the periods are of interest to me but I am wholeheartedly celebrating a belated — and hopefully not singular — recognition of the work of women…
Tag: travel
London: Zanele Muholi
There’s always so much going on at the Tate Mod: you can never get to everything even if you are a member and can go a few times even in a short visit. I had seen some of Muholi’s photos in other exhibits but this was my first dive into their work across time and…
London: BIBA
After a morning at the Tate B I took the boat down to London Bridge, forgetting it was tourist season and it is not as much fun to travel by boat in tourist season. It was worse on the way back west because overloaded boats didn’t pick up any new passengers and that was irksome…
London: Judy Chicago
When I got back from my jaunt to Sussex to see Leonora (yes, soon posting on that — after WorldCon which is occupying my brain space that wasn’t occupied by Be Surreal) I realised I was overly-peopled and exhausted by doing new things [and head full of Leonora which is quite a thing] so I…
Glasgow 2024 AKA WorldCon
My schedule includes two academic presentations because I bent the rules slightly to talk about Strange & Norrell (not just an excuse to show Charles Vess’ glorious illustrations!) and a bit about Scots literary history as there is a special track for that. My topics: SCOTLAND’S FIRST FLIGHT: 1507 In 1507 alchemist John Damian flew…
London: Expressionists
The first afternoon in London I had planned to go to the Fashion & Textile Museum but forgot just how much worse afternoon traffic in The City has become especially with summer road works so when the bus announced it was ending the route at St Paul’s and going no further I took it as…
London: The Boyfriend
Despite my aim to take a relaxed approach to London — and really, the aim was to get to Leonora in Sussex — and just do ‘a few things’ I find I have a lot of photos to share with you so how to begin? Rather than my usual temporal arrangement, I decided to begin…
Helsinki
I was glad to spend the fourth of July mostly in Helsinki having lunch with a friend and buying gifts at the Moomin shop. The ferry over from Tallinn is a smooth trip across the gulf in the early hours. I dozed and watched the waves. Helsinki seemed so cacophonous after a few days in…
Medieval Tallinn
Owls, amber (a green man!), cobblestones, a well, a dragon, a composer, towers, walls, gardens, monks, and Alexander Nevsky’s church! Many more photos to come! Click to embiggen any individual image.
Leonora @ Kumu
The first of the Tallinn posts: I was considering getting down to Tartu to see the Estonian Surrealist exhibit, but there just wasn’t time in my schedule. Oh but wait — posters around town advertising Leonora at the Kumu? Yes, please. Enjoy the vicarious visit to the exhibit, where I made the docent nervous by…