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So I need days out in Chichester (if I really care about Lucian Freud), Nottingham (I have no idea who Thomas Demand is but it sounds interesting), Birmingham (But it could be the same show as will be in Margate on Hamish Fulton) and Cambridge (Henri Gaudier-Brzesk).
Clearly I need to start looking at calendars and marking in days.
Missed the Soviet Architecture show at the RAA. Bumboats.
Clearly I need to start looking at calendars and marking in days.
Missed the Soviet Architecture show at the RAA. Bumboats.
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Some of you have access to electronic OEDs. I wonder if you be so kind as to tell who the citation for "futurism" in 1842 is - supposibly it's a reference to Christian Eschatology, and the quote would be useful. Anything earlier than 1842?
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I'm doing a certain amount of siphoning off - stuff on photography has been appearing at ’Stairs Steps Stares (which in time will likely becomes Stares, and needs some updates) and stuff on film is now going to be at Conjunctions. An offshoot of a Sekrit Projekt and a Sekrit Projekt will be revealed in due course, subject to contract and all that.
It'll be tedious to crosspost all the time so I'll probably post links every five films or at the end of each month. So far:
2012 - I: The Damned (Joseph Losey, 1963)
2012 - II: The House Across the Lake (Ken Hughes, 1954)
2012 - III: The Hide (Marek Losey, 2008)
2012 - IV: Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)
2012 - V: Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie, 2007)
It'll be tedious to crosspost all the time so I'll probably post links every five films or at the end of each month. So far:
2012 - I: The Damned (Joseph Losey, 1963)
2012 - II: The House Across the Lake (Ken Hughes, 1954)
2012 - III: The Hide (Marek Losey, 2008)
2012 - IV: Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)
2012 - V: Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie, 2007)
I've been uneasy about Steven Moffat's depiction of women for a while - pretty everything I've seen since Press Gang, I suspect. The outpouring in favour of motherhood in the Doctor Who Christmas special left a nasty taste in my mouth, Amy Pond's job as kissogram seemed a little dubious and I wasn't entirely happy with some of the background to River Song. The woman at the centre of last year's Christmas special felt a little thinly written too.
I didn't have any especial alarm bells ring for Sherlock "A Scandal in Belgravia", as expectations were lowered. It was fankwank, I suspect. Just as we've had random reference to Androzani in Doctor Who, so there are references to Valley of Fear and various other cases. It did strike me that Irene Adler's dominatrix was a little, um, post-watershed. Moffat's Adler has clearly stood on a few corns.
Note the various girlfriends of Watson, comic foils all, the neurotic Mrs Hudson (with convenient cleavage) and the silly, unrequited lover of Holmes, Molly Hooper. Conan Doyle was no great creator of women, but Moffat (and Mark Gatiss) don't do much better. It is all too par for the course - and it sounds like the second Robert Downey Jr film is not much better (C.E. Murphy: http://mizkit.livejournal.com/710466.ht
ETA: Stewart Lee: (One of the few female characters in the original Holmes stories, Irene Adler, was changed from an opera singer to a prostitute. Out Mrs Hudson as an angel and the whole gamut of TV roles for women will be covered.)"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis
I didn't have any especial alarm bells ring for Sherlock "A Scandal in Belgravia", as expectations were lowered. It was fankwank, I suspect. Just as we've had random reference to Androzani in Doctor Who, so there are references to Valley of Fear and various other cases. It did strike me that Irene Adler's dominatrix was a little, um, post-watershed. Moffat's Adler has clearly stood on a few corns.
- Juliet McKenna: http://jemckenna.wordpress.com/2012/0
1/04/on-irene-adler-and-outrage-and-infl uences-and-charoleia/ - Jane Clare Jones: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis
free/2012/jan/03/sherlock-sexist-steven-m offat?newsfeed=true - Another Angry Woman: http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2012/01/0
1/irene-adler-how-to-butcher-a-brilliant-w oman-character/.
Note the various girlfriends of Watson, comic foils all, the neurotic Mrs Hudson (with convenient cleavage) and the silly, unrequited lover of Holmes, Molly Hooper. Conan Doyle was no great creator of women, but Moffat (and Mark Gatiss) don't do much better. It is all too par for the course - and it sounds like the second Robert Downey Jr film is not much better (C.E. Murphy: http://mizkit.livejournal.com/710466.ht
ETA: Stewart Lee: (One of the few female characters in the original Holmes stories, Irene Adler, was changed from an opera singer to a prostitute. Out Mrs Hudson as an angel and the whole gamut of TV roles for women will be covered.)"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis
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A listing of exhibitions which may interest me and others - information presented as is, check with websites etc before travelling, corrections invited. Some galleries close on Sundays, Mondays or Tuesdays, municipal ones might close at 4.00pm now.
Items in red are on at the moment, starred items are ones I'd recommend or really want to see.
Ends January 2012
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Items in red are on at the moment, starred items are ones I'd recommend or really want to see.
Ends January 2012
- Edinburgh: Elizabeth Blackadder Scottish National Gallery 2-Jul-2011-2-Jan-2012
- London: Power of Making V&A 6-Sep-2011-2-Jan-2012
- London: Barry Flanagan Tate Britain 27-Sep-2011-2-Jan-2012
- Eastbourne : Franziska Furter Towner 8-Oct-2011-2-Jan-2012 (Y) http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhib
ition/franziska-furter/ - London: Love, Magic and Power V&A 10-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012
- Margate: Nothing in the World But Youth Turner Contemporary 17-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012
- London: Pipilotti Rist Hayward Gallery 28-Sep-2011-8-Jan-2012
- * London: Gerhard Richter: Panorama Tate Modern 6-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012
- London: George Condo: Mental States Hayward Gallery 18-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012
- London: Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven Dulwich Picture Gallery 19-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
xhibitions/coming_soon/the_group_of_seve n.aspx - London: Private Eye at 50 V&A Rooms 17a and 18a 19-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 (Free)
- London: The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons National Portrait Gallery 20-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012
- * Gateshead: BALTIC Presents Turner Prize 2011 (Karla Black / Martin Boyce / Hilary Lloyd / George Shaw) BALTIC 21-Oct-2011-8-Jan-2012 http://www.balticmill.com
- Nottingham: Klaus Weber: If You Leave Me I'm Not Coming Nottingham Contemporary 22-Oct-11-08 Jan 2012 http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/ar
t/klaus-weber - London: Hokusai's Great Wave British Museum 3-Nov-2011-8-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/ex
hibitions/hokusais_great_wave.aspx - * Bexhill: Warhol is Here De La Warr Pavilion 24-Sep-2011-9-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDe
tail.aspx?EventId=1335 - Wolverhampton, West Midlands: Traced Wolverhampton Art Gallery 15-Jan-2011-15-Jan-2012
- London: John Martin: Apocalypse Tate Britain 21-Sep-2011-15-Jan-2012
- * London: Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 V&A 38, 39, and North Court 24-Sep-2011-15-Jan-2012
- London: The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso Courtauld Institute of Art 13-Oct-2011-15-Jan-2012 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhib
itions/future/index.shtml - Cardiff: Joseph Beuys National Museum Cardiff 22-Oct-2011-15-Jan-2012
- London: One Hundred and One Cartoonists Cartoon Museum 3-Nov-2011-21-Jan-2012 http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/
- * London: Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 Royal Academy of Arts Sackler Wing of Galleries 29-Oct-11-22-Jan-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitio
ns/building-the-revolution/ - Liverpool: Alice in Wonderland Tate Liverpool 4-Nov-2011-29-Jan-2012
- Edinburgh: Turner in January Scottish National Gallery 1-Jan-2012-31-Jan-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/o
n-now-and-coming-soon/turner-in-january-2 012
Ends Febuary 2012
- London: Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan National Gallery 9-Nov-2011-5-Feb-2012
- London: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 National Portrait Gallery 10-Nov-2011-12-Feb-2012
- London: Grayson Perry The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman British Museum 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/ex
hibitions/grayson_perry.aspx - London: OMA/Progress Barbican Art Gallery 6-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/ev
ent-detail.asp?ID=12472 - * Chichester: Edward Burra Pallant House 22-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.pallant.org.uk/whats-on/exhib
itions/forthcoming/main-galleries/edward-b urra1/edward-burra - Birmingham: Lost in Lace: New approaches by UK and international artists Birmingham Museum Gas Hall 29-Oct-2011-19-Feb-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1415
- London: Has The Film Already Started? Tate Britain 27-Jun-2011-26-Feb-2012
- London: The House of Annie Lennox V&A 15-Sep-2011-26-Feb-2012
- Birmingham: A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest Birmingham Museum Gallery 20 17-Sep-2011-4-Mar-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1538
- Gwynedd: Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer Mostyn Gallery 26-Nov-2011-10-Mar-2012
- Edinburgh: The Scottish Colourist Series: F C B Cadell Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Modern Two 22-Oct-2011-18-Mar-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/e
xhibition/5:368/19917 - Birmingham: Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration Birmingham Museum 13-Jan-2012-25-Mar-2012 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1389
- London: Photography: New Documentary Forms Tate Modern 1-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
- London: Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
- London: Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
- London: Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys Tate Modern 16-May-2011-31-Mar-2012
- Edinburgh: Missing Scottish National Portrait Gallery 1-Dec-2011-31-Mar-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/e
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The plan was to spend a week (well, five days) in the library of the Science Fiction Foundation Collection, and, because I'd noted that I've never been to Betty's* and there was an exhibition of Ettys, a couple of days in York could follow, since Liverpool and York are so convenient for each other.** Because it would would be good to get away from the term from hell, the hellest one since I last spent time with my brother in the winterval period.*** Ettys and Betty's, what could go wrong?
At about this time I recalled the Alice exhibition at Tate Liverpool, and thought wouldn't it be a shame I'd miss it. Eventually I realised that I wouldn't have to miss it, but I would have a short window to get from Lime Street to the Feathers to Albert Dock and look round. This I did, and once I've read the catalogue I should be saying more on an interesting if coy collection. But, hey, a Thom Demijohn book in the Tate!
So, a week reading up for the next book. Only, the reader's report has reemerged for the seventies book, and stuff needs sorting, and there's that deadline for an article on Jan 15th, plus the Survivors thing... Put it this way, Plan A didn't get much attention.
Wandering back from Whitechapel Caffe Nerd, I passed Doctor Duncan's, a Cains pub which looked very interesting, and which I planned to revisit, but at this point there was a Chicken Bazooka with my name on it. Have a nice relaxing week - catch a movie at FACT, have a drink or two in the Phil, but mostly watch those DVDs and read those books I'd brought with me.
Monday night was film night - the cheery Another Earth, watched from a sofa, and which has the virtue of being shorter than Melancholia. I'd arranged to meet someone Tuesday night, but they blew me out, and so it was on my own that I went to the Ship and Mitre, a pub with at least ten real ale pumps. Ooops. Although it has a reputation for serving locals before strangers. H'mm. I walked back towards the hotel, past Doctor Duncan's - as I'd allowed for calories for two pints - and for once bore right up Renshaw Street rather than up Mount Pleasant. I turned left at Oldham Street, which I assumed would go through to Mount Pleasant, and then right as I felt this should go through, and passed the Roscoe Head. This was odd, since I'd just been at the Roscoe Arms and wasn't clear how they'd join up,**** and interesting as it declared that it was one of the Magnificent Seven, the seven pubs which have appeared in each of the editions of The Good Beer Guide. I hit Leece Street and turned left, then felt sure that I needed to cross the road for Rodney Street. This brings you out at a very big church, the one which looks like Tate Modern rather than being Paddy's wigwam, and not where I needed to be. A left turn took me onto Hope Street, to said Wigwam, and the hotel and bed, although the hotel oyster card failed twice, necessitating the three flight of stairs to be navigated five times.
The Roscoe Head clearly needed a visit, but was clearly closer than fifteen minutes' walk, indeed seemed likely closer to two. Assuming I could get unlost in the same way. So I went there on the way to the Ship, and took advantage of the third pint servings to try three beers. Then a circuitous route to the Ship and more beers. At least I was drinking halves. Getting lost is the theme of the week.
The next day saw more research into the magnificent seven, which didn't yield the other six, but revealed a microbre - The Baltic Fleet, opposite Albert Dock. But first a meeting with an editor, in the Cambridge, and an attempt to drink a pint of Mansfield for the first time since... well, maybe even the 1980s - it was off, so I went for a pint of (I think Banks) an had a conversation which might have consequences, but certainly rewrites. I walked via the hotel (and the bookshop) to Caffe Nerd in Liverpool One, then found my way to the Baltic. I tried a few halves, before taking a long, circuitous and not at all lost route to Doctor Duncan's, where I tried a couple of Cain's beer. Feeling sufficiently mellow, I needed a fix of Chicken Bazooka.
The next day I was due to go to York, but I had a couple of hours to kill, so wandered into the city centre and had a coffee, and did some editing, and then emerged to sleet and snow and rain. Losing my bearings, I took forever to find Renshaw Street, and got lost again, cutting through to Mount Pleasant. Eventually - half an hour into a ten minute walk - I found the hotel and my rucksack, and set off back down the hill to Lime Street. It was a good job I'd booked a seat, as the train was full, but I did some editing. The snow was coming down until we hit the Pennines, and I was rather bemused to note that we appeared to be arriving in Bjork.
I took a taxi to the hotel as I was On A Mission, and the driver warned me about how alcoholic the owner was. It turns out he was thinking of a different hotel, and that I had a better idea of where it was than he did. I checked in and then yomped into town to a certain shop, then to the far end of town to the City Gallery where I saw Filth! in the shape of Etty nudes. This provoked some daft criticism from the critics of the period and some dubious curatorial commentary - "the artist was praised for the depiction of voluptuous female nudes, which many in the period believed encouraged immorality. In contrast the male nude was considered to be highly moral, as it was often associated with heroic acts."
One of the heroic male nudes:
At about this time I recalled the Alice exhibition at Tate Liverpool, and thought wouldn't it be a shame I'd miss it. Eventually I realised that I wouldn't have to miss it, but I would have a short window to get from Lime Street to the Feathers to Albert Dock and look round. This I did, and once I've read the catalogue I should be saying more on an interesting if coy collection. But, hey, a Thom Demijohn book in the Tate!
So, a week reading up for the next book. Only, the reader's report has reemerged for the seventies book, and stuff needs sorting, and there's that deadline for an article on Jan 15th, plus the Survivors thing... Put it this way, Plan A didn't get much attention.
Wandering back from Whitechapel Caffe Nerd, I passed Doctor Duncan's, a Cains pub which looked very interesting, and which I planned to revisit, but at this point there was a Chicken Bazooka with my name on it. Have a nice relaxing week - catch a movie at FACT, have a drink or two in the Phil, but mostly watch those DVDs and read those books I'd brought with me.
Monday night was film night - the cheery Another Earth, watched from a sofa, and which has the virtue of being shorter than Melancholia. I'd arranged to meet someone Tuesday night, but they blew me out, and so it was on my own that I went to the Ship and Mitre, a pub with at least ten real ale pumps. Ooops. Although it has a reputation for serving locals before strangers. H'mm. I walked back towards the hotel, past Doctor Duncan's - as I'd allowed for calories for two pints - and for once bore right up Renshaw Street rather than up Mount Pleasant. I turned left at Oldham Street, which I assumed would go through to Mount Pleasant, and then right as I felt this should go through, and passed the Roscoe Head. This was odd, since I'd just been at the Roscoe Arms and wasn't clear how they'd join up,**** and interesting as it declared that it was one of the Magnificent Seven, the seven pubs which have appeared in each of the editions of The Good Beer Guide. I hit Leece Street and turned left, then felt sure that I needed to cross the road for Rodney Street. This brings you out at a very big church, the one which looks like Tate Modern rather than being Paddy's wigwam, and not where I needed to be. A left turn took me onto Hope Street, to said Wigwam, and the hotel and bed, although the hotel oyster card failed twice, necessitating the three flight of stairs to be navigated five times.
The Roscoe Head clearly needed a visit, but was clearly closer than fifteen minutes' walk, indeed seemed likely closer to two. Assuming I could get unlost in the same way. So I went there on the way to the Ship, and took advantage of the third pint servings to try three beers. Then a circuitous route to the Ship and more beers. At least I was drinking halves. Getting lost is the theme of the week.
The next day saw more research into the magnificent seven, which didn't yield the other six, but revealed a microbre - The Baltic Fleet, opposite Albert Dock. But first a meeting with an editor, in the Cambridge, and an attempt to drink a pint of Mansfield for the first time since... well, maybe even the 1980s - it was off, so I went for a pint of (I think Banks) an had a conversation which might have consequences, but certainly rewrites. I walked via the hotel (and the bookshop) to Caffe Nerd in Liverpool One, then found my way to the Baltic. I tried a few halves, before taking a long, circuitous and not at all lost route to Doctor Duncan's, where I tried a couple of Cain's beer. Feeling sufficiently mellow, I needed a fix of Chicken Bazooka.
The next day I was due to go to York, but I had a couple of hours to kill, so wandered into the city centre and had a coffee, and did some editing, and then emerged to sleet and snow and rain. Losing my bearings, I took forever to find Renshaw Street, and got lost again, cutting through to Mount Pleasant. Eventually - half an hour into a ten minute walk - I found the hotel and my rucksack, and set off back down the hill to Lime Street. It was a good job I'd booked a seat, as the train was full, but I did some editing. The snow was coming down until we hit the Pennines, and I was rather bemused to note that we appeared to be arriving in Bjork.
I took a taxi to the hotel as I was On A Mission, and the driver warned me about how alcoholic the owner was. It turns out he was thinking of a different hotel, and that I had a better idea of where it was than he did. I checked in and then yomped into town to a certain shop, then to the far end of town to the City Gallery where I saw Filth! in the shape of Etty nudes. This provoked some daft criticism from the critics of the period and some dubious curatorial commentary - "the artist was praised for the depiction of voluptuous female nudes, which many in the period believed encouraged immorality. In contrast the male nude was considered to be highly moral, as it was often associated with heroic acts."
One of the heroic male nudes:
Amusingly, the catalogue also prints it turned through ninety degrees anticlockwise.
Filth, I say.
Then from Ettys to Betty's, and a queue for an overpriced but nice cream tea. R. texted and phoned me whilst I was in there, but you aren't allowed mobiles, so I secretly texted him back and agreed to meet in the York Tavern, not the pub I thought it was, it turns out. Almost every where else was heaving, but the Swan on Goodramgate had standing room, and yielded a couple of pints. On my way back to the hotel, I inadvertently found myself in the Tap and Spile for one more. When I came out, I crossed the road, and headed in the wrong direction.
I have lost my mojo.
I got up on the Saturday with a sense of something having gone wrong, and slid into town on lethal black-iced pavements. I got the Apple Fascists at Stormfront to fix my iTouch, and after a coffee and editing, and a long walk up Micklegate, went back to finish off Etty and buy the catalogue. I also had a pasty and gravy, before heading for editing in a coffee shop. R. texted me, and arranged to pick me up. We had an Indian meal, and he drove me back to the hotel. No booze, to some relief.
And then back to the station, where my train didn't exist - it had been retimed, and then delayed, much to my annoyance. On the other hand, I got to St P in time for the Faversham train, having managed to miss the change at Ashford one which would have required a taxi home.
Back home for a nap by 3pm - and a cat who clearly missed me. A productive and emotional trip - I just have to find the other six pubs now.
* I feel this is a title that someone should use. For what, I don't know.
** I travelled between the two during the SFF Masterclass. Clearly I had forgotten the travelling time.
*** What can I say? My irony comes in cycles? I never learn from mistakes.
**** They don't.
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Given ongoing debates about sex and ethnic balances in sf anthologies, here's a row on US poetry, complaining about multiculturalism over quality: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/de
I'd planned to do a bit of work tonight, but the walk home seems to have intoxicated me. My sense of direction wasn't good, either.
Sampled (half pints) tonight:
Sampled (half pints) tonight:
Hydes (Manchester): Owd Oak 3.5% http://www.hydesbrewery.co.uk
a kind of sticky Guinness; tastes a bit like the smell of loose change
Dow Bridge (Catthorpe, Leics): D. B. Dark 4.4% http://www.dowbridgebrewery.co.uk
initially thought evap milk, but it's a very weak fruit pastille. How lousy are my taste buds?
Big Bog (Waunfawr?): Bog Standard 3.6% no information I can find...
Hits back of tongue and top of mouth; kind of a high pitched taste, hardly citrus, minor fizz.
Raw (Chesterfield, Derbys): Edge Pale Ale 4.5%: http://www.rawbrew.com/
gets you on the upper front jaw first then a long aftertaste on the edges of the back of your tongue. A kind of Seville marmalade taste.
Wednesday
Castle Rock (Nottingham): Preservation 4.4%: http://www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/
bland and flat on first taste, but it has a long toffee aftertaste. Back and side of tongue fizz.
Robinsons (Manchester): Build a Rocket Boys 4%: http://www.elbowbeer.co.uk/#
Back and side of tongue fizz.Robinson is thicker and sourer - sherbet flavour, with a buzz on the bottom lip. Apple flavour. (Something to do with Elbow)
Castle Rock (Nottingham): Snowhite 4.2%: http://www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk/
Captain Cook (Stokesley): Discovery 4.4% http://www.yourround.co.uk/Brewer/Stoke
Rebel (Penryn): 80 Shilling Ale 4.1%: (or 5%) (http://www.beermad.org.uk/brewery/4853
- long after taste, a bit liquorice
Abbeydale (Sheffield) Gothic Stout Porter (http://www.abbeydalebrewery.co.uk/inde
I really like the stout. At first I thought strawberry - it's fruit - but it's Muller Fruit Corner Black Cherry Yoghurt.
Cottage (Lovington) Mini Cooper (4.7%): (http://www.cottagebrewing.co.uk/about.h
a limey fruit pastille - long aftertaste which goes to the back of the throat.
Why let publicity get in the way of the audience?
Compare: http://www.artfund.org/artistrooms/page
(My google fu has frequently abandoned me over this project, mind.)
Compare: http://www.artfund.org/artistrooms/page
(My google fu has frequently abandoned me over this project, mind.)
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Having, against my better judgement, gone to Bexhill to see the Warhol show (free, De La Warr, worth it for the building which needs a lick of paint again), I see another exhibition coming to Dulwich Picture Gallery. Which is more than the DPG website admitted to yesterday.
The Artist Rooms Warhol is going to Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 2 June 2012-13 January 2013; I'm not sure if they'll also have the various loans which were at Bexhill.
There's meant to be something at St Martin's, but I've not found any details on their website.
The Artist Rooms Warhol is going to Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 2 June 2012-13 January 2013; I'm not sure if they'll also have the various loans which were at Bexhill.
There's meant to be something at St Martin's, but I've not found any details on their website.
A listing of exhibitions which may be of interest, with starred items things which especially interest me or things I've seen and would recommend. Check with venues for opening times - not all galleries open Sundays and/or Mondays. Corrections welcome. I've been updating things up to N of late - the rest of the alphabet to follow, but curiously this means seventeen items for the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery and a couple for the National Galleries Scotland. It's a south-eastcentric list for reasons of practicality though. Must add Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and some of the design museums. Ordered by closure, red titles are in progress. There is a fuller list on a Google calendar.
[I didn't spot these yesterday - fuller update to follow:
Dulwich: "Ragamala" Dulwich Picture Gallery 25-Jan-2012-27-May-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
Dulwich: "Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague" Dulwich Picture Gallery 15-Feb-2012 -27-May-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
Dulwich: "Andy Warhol: Life & Legends" Dulwich Picture Gallery 20-Jun-2012-16-Sep-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
Dulwich: "Cotman in Normandy" Dulwich Picture Gallery ??-???-2012-??-???-2012]
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[I didn't spot these yesterday - fuller update to follow:
Dulwich: "Ragamala" Dulwich Picture Gallery 25-Jan-2012-27-May-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
Dulwich: "Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague" Dulwich Picture Gallery 15-Feb-2012 -27-May-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
Dulwich: "Andy Warhol: Life & Legends" Dulwich Picture Gallery 20-Jun-2012-16-Sep-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
Dulwich: "Cotman in Normandy" Dulwich Picture Gallery ??-???-2012-??-???-2012]
- London: "Beatrix Potter: Botanical Illustrations" V&A 14-Jun-2011- 11-Dec-2011
- London: "William Dobson: A Portrait Revealed" Courtauld Institute of Art 12-Sep-11- 11-Dec-2011 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhib
itions/future/index.shtml - Canterbury: "Fictional Hybrids, Vera Möller" Sidney Cooper Gallery 5-Nov-2011- 17-Dec-2011 (Free)
- Kendal: "Richard Long" Abbot Hall Art Gallery 21-Nov-2011- 17-Dec-2011 http://www.abbothall.org.uk/
- Kilmarnock, Ayrshire: "Artist Rooms: Bill Viola" The Dick Institute 3-Sep-2011- 24-Dec-2011
- Birmingham: "Home of Metal" Birmingham Museum 18-Jun-2011- 25-Dec-2011 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=893
- Birmingham: "Staffordshire Hoard" Birmingham Museum 24-Jul-2010- 31-Dec-2011 http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=892
Ends January 2012
- London: "Wilhelm Sasnal" Whitechapel Gallery 14-Oct-2011- 1-Jan-2012
- Edinburgh: "Elizabeth Blackadder" Scottish National Gallery 2-Jul-2011- 2-Jan-2012
- London: "Power of Making" V&A 6-Sep-2011- 2-Jan-2012
- London: "Barry Flanagan" Tate Britain 27-Sep-2011- 2-Jan-2012
- Eastbourne : "Franziska Furter" Towner 8-Oct-2011- 2-Jan-2012 (Y) http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhib
ition/franziska-furter/ - London: "Love, Magic and Power" V&A 10-Sep-2011- 8-Jan-2012
- Margate: "Nothing in the World But Youth" Turner Contemporary 17-Sep-2011- 8-Jan-2012
- London: "Pipilotti Rist" Hayward Gallery 28-Sep-2011- 8-Jan-2012
- * London: "Gerhard Richter: Panorama" Tate Modern 6-Oct-2011- 8-Jan-2012
- London: "George Condo: Mental States" Hayward Gallery 18-Oct-2011- 8-Jan-2012
- London: "Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven" Dulwich Picture Gallery 19-Oct-2011- 8-Jan-2012 http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/e
xhibitions/coming_soon/the_group_of_seve n.aspx - London: "Private Eye at 50" V&A Rooms 17a and 18a 19-Oct-2011- 8-Jan-2012 (Free)
- London: "The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons" National Portrait Gallery 20-Oct-2011- 8-Jan-2012
- Gateshead: "BALTIC Presents Turner Prize 2011 (Karla Black / Martin Boyce / Hilary Lloyd / George Shaw)" BALTIC 21-Oct-2011- 8-Jan-2012 http://www.balticmill.com
- Nottingham: "Klaus Weber: If You Leave Me I'm Not Coming" Nottingham Contemporary 22-Oct-11- 08 Jan 2012 http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/ar
t/klaus-weber - London: "Hokusai's Great Wave" British Museum 3-Nov-2011- 8-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/ex
hibitions/hokusais_great_wave.aspx - * Bexhill: "Warhol is Here" De La Warr Pavilion 24-Sep-2011- 9-Jan-2012 (Free) http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDe
tail.aspx?EventId=1335 - Wolverhampton, West Midlands: "Traced" Wolverhampton Art Gallery 15-Jan-2011- 15-Jan-2012
- London: "John Martin: Apocalypse" Tate Britain 21-Sep-2011- 15-Jan-2012
- * London: "Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990" V&A 38, 39, and North Court 24-Sep-2011- 15-Jan-2012
- London: "The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso" Courtauld Institute of Art 13-Oct-2011- 15-Jan-2012 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhib
itions/future/index.shtml - Cardiff: "Joseph Beuys" National Museum Cardiff 22-Oct-2011- 15-Jan-2012
- London: "One Hundred and One Cartoonists" Cartoon Museum 3-Nov-2011- 21-Jan-2012 http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/
- * London: "Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935" Royal Academy of Arts Sackler Wing of Galleries 29-Oct-11- 22-Jan-2012 http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitio
ns/building-the-revolution/ - Liverpool: "Alice in Wonderland" Tate Liverpool 4-Nov-2011- 29-Jan-2012
- Edinburgh: "Turner in January" Scottish National Gallery 1-Jan-2012- 31-Jan-2012 http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/o
n-now-and-coming-soon/turner-in-january-2 012
( Ends after January 2012 )
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... I went back to a charity shop and bought Henry Green's Loving (1945) / Living (1929) / Party Going (1939) and Nothing (1950) / Doting (1952) / Blindness (1926), even though under the strict application of the two pound rule I don't have to. Together they come to £5.50, but as this is six novels that's actually about 90p a book...
Rather like Patrick Hamilton, he seems to be one of those literary blindspots - too late to be modernist, too early to be angry young man, a contemporary with Grahame Greene, who must surely have reviewed his near namesake (and don't forget Harry Lime). Both Green and his wife were descended from the first Baron Leconfield, the current title holder I recently heard speak about East Prussia (and I hope the merely Hon Henry Vincent Yorke is much more interesting).
My gut would be to start with Blindness, although it appears the omnibi have eschewed chronological ordering. I ought to be reading sf, of course. And Moonraker. But I need to wash the taste of a book I will not name out of my head.
Rather like Patrick Hamilton, he seems to be one of those literary blindspots - too late to be modernist, too early to be angry young man, a contemporary with Grahame Greene, who must surely have reviewed his near namesake (and don't forget Harry Lime). Both Green and his wife were descended from the first Baron Leconfield, the current title holder I recently heard speak about East Prussia (and I hope the merely Hon Henry Vincent Yorke is much more interesting).
My gut would be to start with Blindness, although it appears the omnibi have eschewed chronological ordering. I ought to be reading sf, of course. And Moonraker. But I need to wash the taste of a book I will not name out of my head.
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I found a pile of James Bonds in a charity shop in Faversham at 50p each, and read Casino Royale back in August. Wanting to rad the books in order, there was a pause until I found Live and Let Die - which I did in a second hand shop in Wakefield where I picked up a few more (averaging £2, thus maintaining the sanctity of the £2 rule).
I've recently watched the film - Roger Moore and Yaphet Kotto and inter!racial!sex (although not between Moore and Kotto) - and both the book and film have issues in their representations of race. To complain that the film exploits blaxploitation tropes might seem a little wrongheaded since blaxploitation was all about the exploitation, but at least they had a degree of agency.
The book makes more liberal use of the five letter n-word, occasional use of the six letter n-word, and the only black characters - aside from the gangsters - are porters, chauffeurs, shoe shiners, barmen, as if there is a secret society of spies through American society. This is not the place for nuance in early to mid 1950s American racial politics. There's a repeated line about after black doctors and scientists, it was time there were black supercriminals. There's a large chunk from Patrick Leigh Fermor about voodoo. Research is not worn lightly.
The plot has Bond sent to America and then the Caribbean to smash a gold coin smuggling ring, but that largely an excuse to have him travel down the east coast of North America. It's loosely connected to SMERSH and the Soviets, but that's largely off stage.
I'm looking forward to Moonraker, which I believe is next, with its space shuttle.
The movie theme song (by Paul McCartney and Wings) is on my local's juke box and a friend, recognising the tune, wondered which film it was from.
When You Were Young And Your Heart Was An Open Book
You Used To Say "Live And Let Live"
(You Know You Did, You Know You Did, You Know You Did)
But If This Ever Changing World In Which We're Livin'
Makes You Give In And Cry
Say "Live And Let Die"
"Live And Let Die"
"Live And Let Die"
"Live And Let Die"
Goldfinger, I said.
I've recently watched the film - Roger Moore and Yaphet Kotto and inter!racial!sex (although not between Moore and Kotto) - and both the book and film have issues in their representations of race. To complain that the film exploits blaxploitation tropes might seem a little wrongheaded since blaxploitation was all about the exploitation, but at least they had a degree of agency.
The book makes more liberal use of the five letter n-word, occasional use of the six letter n-word, and the only black characters - aside from the gangsters - are porters, chauffeurs, shoe shiners, barmen, as if there is a secret society of spies through American society. This is not the place for nuance in early to mid 1950s American racial politics. There's a repeated line about after black doctors and scientists, it was time there were black supercriminals. There's a large chunk from Patrick Leigh Fermor about voodoo. Research is not worn lightly.
The plot has Bond sent to America and then the Caribbean to smash a gold coin smuggling ring, but that largely an excuse to have him travel down the east coast of North America. It's loosely connected to SMERSH and the Soviets, but that's largely off stage.
I'm looking forward to Moonraker, which I believe is next, with its space shuttle.
The movie theme song (by Paul McCartney and Wings) is on my local's juke box and a friend, recognising the tune, wondered which film it was from.
When You Were Young And Your Heart Was An Open Book
You Used To Say "Live And Let Live"
(You Know You Did, You Know You Did, You Know You Did)
But If This Ever Changing World In Which We're Livin'
Makes You Give In And Cry
Say "Live And Let Die"
"Live And Let Die"
"Live And Let Die"
"Live And Let Die"
Goldfinger, I said.
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... because I can.
I remembered a sublime animation called Overtime, but I'd forgotten what it was called, and it took a while to relocate without its time. I was sure I'd posted it on here - but I couldn't find it.
Have the handkerchiefs to hand.
I remembered a sublime animation called Overtime, but I'd forgotten what it was called, and it took a while to relocate without its time. I was sure I'd posted it on here - but I couldn't find it.
Have the handkerchiefs to hand.
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